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    blind leading the blind

    Loving this

    An airport has been accused of taking political correctness too far, after advertising for a new air traffic controller in Braille.
    Older and ...well, just older!!

    #2
    It's not done by them squinting out the window you know.
    Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

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      #3
      can you get radar screens in braille?

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        All air traffic controllers have to meet international standards and pass a medical, including a stringent eye test.

        However, the move was applauded by Bill Alker, from the Royal National Institute for the Blind.

        "We welcome the Isles of Scilly's Council for their good practice and would hope more employers do the same," he said.

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        I do wish they had asked my gf's sister who is manager of a hotel for the Royal Blind Society. She would have given a proper quote.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Alf W View Post
          It's not done by them squinting out the window you know.
          I think it is on Scilly...

          The advertisement states that applicants must have excellent vision in order to guide aircraft safely into the hilltop airport, which is often fogbound.

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            #6
            'On to' or 'into'?
            Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

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              #7
              depends on how good your eyesight is!

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                #8
                Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
                depends on how good your eyesight is!
                Isle sight

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                  bollux
                  Last edited by Troll; 11 July 2008, 17:06.
                  How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
                    can you get radar screens in braille?
                    Exactly - All you'd need is a giant horizontal pin cushion with miniature magnets lifting the "pixel pins" to form a tactile pattern. Colour might be a problem though.
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