FALANT Test

[Unregistered]

Does the FAA still accept the sucsessful results of the Farnsworth Latern Test as a substitute for the Ishihara color plate test?
If so, does anyone know where a FALANT test site would be?
Anything in or close to Michigan?

If any of you have experience with this, please post.

Thanks people!

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

If any of you have experience with this, please post.

The darned thing is as hard as or harder than the 'silly colored-dots test'.
I have never heard of a single person say they failed the 'ishihairy' plates and passed the Farnsw Lantern test.
Good luck on it, but prepare to study for the practical (light gun @ airport) test. That's a lot easier.

 

[bbchien]

The Farnsworth Lantern test has just been removed as an acceptable alternate test. It's actually harder than the light gun test. Personally I think the Falant test is pretty hard, too. I always recommend that the best way is to go out with a CFI who has called the tower. Stand on the edge of the taxiway or apron and conduct a "test" test communicating with tower on a handheld. If you can pass this, go directly to FSDO. If you cannot, your porsepcts for avoiding the "not valid for flight by color signal" restriction is pretty terribly small. Sigh.

 

[Unregistered]

Bruce, thanks for the reply, but I think you have the FALANT and the Farnsworth D-15 test mixed up. They are TWO different tests.
The Farnsworth D-15 test is no longer accepted by OKC. The FALANT is still accepted.
The question is, where the heck can a person take the FALANT test at?

 

[bbchien]

Not confused. But you won't find the FALANT test much easier. I am a partial red-green deuteranope. On a good day, I can shoot the dots. On a bad day, I need to rely on my waiver. I have my ishihara book memorized and do it in a room with good natural light when giving the test. The type of light makes a big difference. But the FARNSWORTH was impossible.

I would try a medical school. They're about the only ones who might have the apparatus.