Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!207.666!Jeff.Dubois From: Jeff.Dubois@p666.f207.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Jeff Dubois) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Exit Row Survey Message-ID: <16578@handicap.news> Date: 28 Jun 91 16:08:17 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: Jeff.Dubois@p666.f207.n163.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:163/207.666 - Local ASYST User's , Ottawa ON Lines: 35 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org 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. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!207.666!Jeff.Dubois Internet: Jeff.Dubois@p666.f207.n163.z1.fidonet.org