-
Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?
Go here:
Edit Account Details and Profile
Flight Physical, help needed!
- Thread starter OneBadSSS
- Start date
no TIFF... and a multipage at that.. just save it to your desktop, and print it out to make sure it will look okay when/if they need to print it...
EM1
Ok, so I got MOST of my flight physical done today (still have to do dental because the DT that is on calll at Aviation Medicine left early and while I was at the Immunization center, so I missed my chance at getting her to review my dental record today!) but there was one concern. My uncorrected vision is apparently 20/20 near and 20/25 distant, so I have been prescribed glasses. Now I was told by the LT at Optometry that this will NOT disqualify me for aviation, but I just want to hear from other people who may be in similar situations if you were still cleared to fly despite having a slight vision deficency? Everything else went fine, I've got good ears, a strong heart and my color vision and depth perception are fine, I just have a slight focusing problem at a distance that I never knew about! Any thoughts? 
Ok, so I got MOST of my flight physical done today (still have to do dental because the DT that is on calll at Aviation Medicine left early and while I was at the Immunization center, so I missed my chance at getting her to review my dental record today!) but there was one concern. My uncorrected vision is apparently 20/20 near and 20/25 distant, so I have been prescribed glasses. Now I was told by the LT at Optometry that this will NOT disqualify me for aviation, but I just want to hear from other people who may be in similar situations if you were still cleared to fly despite having a slight vision deficency? Everything else went fine, I've got good ears, a strong heart and my color vision and depth perception are fine, I just have a slight focusing problem at a distance that I never knew about! Any thoughts?
The vision requirements are discussed extensively around here. I believe there is a sticky that tries to keep up with the latest and greatest.
Ok, so I got MOST of my flight physical done today (still have to do dental because the DT that is on calll at Aviation Medicine left early and while I was at the Immunization center, so I missed my chance at getting her to review my dental record today!) but there was one concern. My uncorrected vision is apparently 20/20 near and 20/25 distant, so I have been prescribed glasses. Now I was told by the LT at Optometry that this will NOT disqualify me for aviation, but I just want to hear from other people who may be in similar situations if you were still cleared to fly despite having a slight vision deficency? Everything else went fine, I've got good ears, a strong heart and my color vision and depth perception are fine, I just have a slight focusing problem at a distance that I never knew about! Any thoughts?
I had 20/25 in both eyes distant, given glasses, sent to primary, told to wear glasses while flying and sent on my merry way. I subsequently tested at 20/20 half way through primary (I don't know how) and no longer have to wear glasses while flying. I am no authority on this, but from my experience I will say that you can be an SNA with 20/25 (I think as bad as 20/40) so long as it is correctable. Now relax bud and congrats on the acceptance to ODU.
Thanks for the tip! According to the sticky: "SNA vision requirement 20/40 correctable to 20/20, PRK waiver possible." so it looks like I'm good to go!!
If you are talking about the flight physical for IFS, then it must be conducted by a Dr approved by the FAA, he/she may be a Navy flight surgeon, but not necessarily. If you are talking about the flight physical for API and beyond then it is handled by the Navy exclusively.
For an FAA 3rd class medical you just need to be breathing, seriously.