No, you can get a first class with limited color vision if you can complete a SODA. And, as a couple airline captains have proven, you can hold a first class with only one eye.

Here's a link to the standards. As you can see from this, if you meet the standards for second, first is no big deal until you're 40, and maybe not then.

http://www.leftseat.com/FAAforms.htm

MTV

Based on all the info here, I should have no problems passing 1st or 2nd. I have been color blind all my life, however my flight physicals are the only color tests I've ever passed in my life!! For some strange reason, I could see all the numbers??? Guess I'll just have to go for it.
Thanks for all the responses!!

Chickenair,

Actually, color vision is a matter of interpretation, which is why the FAA will permit you to fly under a SODA. What I see and call red may differ from what you see, but as long as you see it as "red", life is good. All they really want to know is that you can tell the difference between a red light gun signal and a green one, and that is all the SODA consists of: an FAA guy talking to an ATC tower, and shining the light gun on you.

Go for it.

MTV

RE: Color blind test
How much sense does it make that I have been passing the 'color blind' numbers test since I was 16 years old, and STILL have to prove it to the AME nurse that gave it to me every time for the last several years. If you question it, the nurse gives a *heavy sigh* and says 'got to do it' and we proceed. My understanding is this color blind defect is GENETIC, and I haven't snuck out and change THAT in the last 4.6 decades.....
Makes about as much sense as pulling all the inspection covers and checking for corrosion each year on a hangared dry country airplane!
We wear it out inspecting it!
Government makes 'no sense/no exceptions' rules........They know it, we know it, do it anyway, Oklahoma says so....

I'll stop now before I get momentum and can't.......
lc

Edit for punctuation

Oh. Sorry. I guess I do drink SODA........since that affects it .........

Littlecub wrote:
I'll stop now before I get momentum and can't.......
lc

No man, keep it rollin!!

My AME said I was more colorblind than anyone he'd ever examined... I was restricted to "No night flying" at first. Had to contact the Aeromedical folks in OK City, get permission for the light gun signal test at the Reno FSDO, and identify red, green and white signal lights. No problem for me, and I now have an official piece of paper which states I can apply for ANY class of Medical... and I'll bet you can too.
Good Luck,
B.R.