You posted: How does a blind person read a book?
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I don’t see how that compares to flying a plane? I could ask, “How does a blind person catch a baseball?” Which would be a closer analogy than reading a book. I understand that aircraft instruments might be able to be made in some sort of Braille form, or perhaps they could “talk” (although there are several instruments that need to be “read” pretty much at the same time (altimeter, airspeed indicator and artificial horizon, to name three). But even in IFR conditions there is taxiing and at least some need for vision, especially at landing.
Beeper ball. I had a blind friend who played little league.
But even in IFR conditions there is taxiing and at least some need for vision, especially at landing.
If a modern jumbo jet can land itself purely by instruments, where is the need for sight? A blind pilot would need help taxiing though.
My whole point here was just that you can be surprised by the number of things disabled people can do given modern technology. There's a debate now about a runner who lost his legs and got them replaced with high-tech running legs, given that he's actually competitive with regular runners. OTOH, there's nothing that'll let this girl perform cheerleading gymnastics short of becoming the Bionic Woman, and we're not quite there yet.
Well, when you find out how, can you go and teach that to the Chicago Cubs players?