The RNIB are, perhaps predictably, in favour of the provision of a Braille application form for potential Air Traffic Contollers. Realistically though, anyone without 20/20 vision has no chance of getting the job. I hope.
The islands have a tiny airfield (and I use the word advisedly, it's grass rather than concrete) used for small passenger planes ferrying the over-optimistic to the tiny outcropping of damp campsites and overpriced tea-shops at the bottom left-hand corner of your British Isles map.
Keri Jones, the controller of Radio Scilly, tried hard to introduce a positive spin on the non-news story.
“We have had loads of calls about it and people generally find it quite funny. The islands are always at the cutting edge of innovation, so it would certainly be something for Scilly to have the world's first blind air traffic controller.”
The emphasis is mine. As are the words 'Ha ha ha'
If innovation is switching off the hot water in your campsite's showers because there's only been eight inches of rainfall in the last week then yes - The Isles of Scilly are our very own Epcot Centre.
2 comments:
wow, coming from a real air traffic controller... that is pretty damned funny. there are no positions in atc where you can even come close to being allowed to be blind that i know of.
flight planning dispatcher is the only thing even close and even then its not like there is any brail aerial charts.
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