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Index Number: 16578

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

This one I'll agree with you on.  To make a long story short my degree
is in photography.  I worked for 7 years in the field after University
and then lost my sight.  I've been two years like this and now am
working on another degree more suitable to my condition.  That is unless
I have a monopoly in selling pictures to other blind people.
"Of course it's in focus."
OK bak to the message header.
During my employment I was fortunate enough to work in aerial
photography.  Four and a half years I spent in west Africa.  I would go
overseas for two months then return for a month.  This all over a seven
year period.  I think it's established that I have been on a number of
larger aircraft and don't want to consider the amount of hours logged in
twin engine turbo prop Piper Navajo's, Cessnaa 404's, and please not
another Islander.
I don't see any logic in this discussion.  A sighted person would have
difficulty in a panic situation to open a door.  And no one neeed tell
me that if a cabin were smoke filled that a blind person would re-act
any better because of their ability to navigate when they can't see
anyways.  Pony patties.
I would bet the sighted person could open the door faster, even if the
sighted person had one arm and a wooden leg.  The occasional blind
person might open the door at a speed relatively close to the general
population but the event would be an anomoly.
This might be a fatalist attitude, but like I said before, I'll be
beside the galley, sipping on Heinekin.
Just the thought of people scrambling towards the exit door makes me
think of lemmings. <grin>

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