Technically, a blind pilot should be able to do as well as any other pilot under IFR if his instruments are set up for him. All pilots are equally blind under IFR regardless of their physical limitations or lack thereof.
But there does have to some realism here. You aren't going to be a photographer if you're blind. You aren't going to be a computer science professor if you have an IQ of 40 (try women's or GLBT studies instead).
No, you HAVE to be able to see, particularly well, in fact, to fly a plane. Perhaps someone can put the controls in your hands for a few seconds the same way a politician gets to “work the crane that erects the ceremonial first girder of a new civil building” with overwhelming supervision, but it’s all a ruse.
Sorry, but IFR means you can’t see outside, not that the cockpit is a black quagmire of darkness and instruments are not illuminated etc. You need to see the instruments, right?
Gosh, almost had me there for a second, I mean millisecond.
“Technically, a blind pilot should be able to do as well as any other pilot under IFR if his instruments are set up for him. All pilots are equally blind under IFR regardless of their physical limitations or lack thereof.”
Ummm...nope. IFR does not mean non-visual. Flying in IMC does, but IFR flights can and do terminate in visual landings. Unless the aircraft and airport have Class III C landing capabilites, the plane does not land itself. There are visual minimums to IFR approaches.
Don’t you have to see the instruments?