this was taken out of context.
thanks for the replies, so if you apply for military and fail depth perception, you can go to a civilian dr, and if he writes you a note, you're good? i probably wont be applying to the military anyway, because i'm sort of interested in medicine, and i wouldnt want to depend on whether people catch me cheating, or if my health otherwise fails-for example when i fly as a passenger in an airplane and i have a cold, it results in an ear infection-and im prone to those too. but it is very encouraging that a guy with 1 eye could fly planes for a living.... that means i can certainly fly privately. but now, perhaps i'll even apply some day into reserves.
actually i never had trouble learning to play sports or to drive. i moved to this country when i was 12 and when i tried to play baseball i had no trouble learning to bat. but when i once was playing catch and i wasnt paying attention a baseball hit me in the stomach and i bragged to my parents that my stomach was very muscular, they replied that my eyes were very defective. my eyes were supposedly like in that picture when i was little, but now they're supposedly 1minute outwards. a dr did this test when i was 16 to prove that my mom was right and i was defective(she passed that test in front of me and teased me). i think depth perception is either completely present or completely lacking-it means that you either see with 1 eye or with 2, cant be in between.
and yeah i can see how people lacking depth perception would be a burden in dog fights(though that story about a guy with waivers puts even that into doubt. after all most of your reactions in sports rely on your muscular memory, because you must decide quicker than you can process what you see), but that doesnt mean that they can't land a plane in a civilian airport!