To be a pilot, do you need 20/20 vision without glasses or contacts, or can you have correction?
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This is a great website for vision requirements for all military:
http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/genjoin/a...
For example:
"Air Force
To enter flight training, a candidate must pass a Flight Class I Flying Physical. To become a pilot, that means the candidates vision can be no worse than 20/70 (correctable with glasses to 20/20) in each eye. To enter Navigator Training, the candidate can have vision no worse than 20/200 in each eye (also must be correctable to 20/20)."
Also:
"Vision is a pilot's most important sense to obtain reference information during flight. Most pilots are familiar with the optical aspects of the eye. Before we start flying, we know whether we have normal uncorrected vision, whether we are farsighted or nearsighted, or have other visual problems. Most of us who have prescription lenses-contacts or eyeglasses-have learned to carry an extra set of glasses with us when we fly, just as a backup."
https://www.americanflyers.net/library/m...
in the movies
some pilots have glasses
but you cant be black. lol just playyyyinnn dawgg!
I think you can have contacts or glasses, but I'm not sure.
I know military pilots need to have 20/20 vision and cannot be color blind...
You can fly helicopters with correct vision to 20/20, but not commercial airliners and jets in the military.
I'm a pilot and I wear contacts, but in the military I think it still may be required, but I heard it was only needed to be corrected 20/20 so that includes lasic.
Depends on what you plan on flying.
I had friends in the Army that weren't allowed to fly helicopters without 20/20, but they could have flown in the National guard on fixed wing craft with lazik or PRK . . .
Outside the military, I would think that as long as its correctable your good! One of my friends got his civilian pilots license after PRK.
When you say "to be a pilot" do you mean for recreation or as a job?
You should check out this site.
http://www.improvingmyeyesight.com/rebui...
The site offers a program of eye exercises to improve your vision. Actually, the creator of the program, Orlin Sorensen, had a very similar situation like you... he wanted to be a pilot, but didn't have 20/20 vision. You can read his story on the site.
My vision is 20/400, which is really poor. I recently started doing the exercises to try to improve my vision. I created a blog where I record my progress with the exercises.
I recently saw some improvement. Other people (who have also experienced improvements) have posted comments about their experiences as well. You can check it out at: http://improvingmyeyesight.com/blog...
Hope this helps.
YES, you can have corrected vision.
To what standard depends on the kind of flying you want to do.
In the USA-
Corrected to 20/20 is the minimum for commercial airline flying.
Corrected to 20/40 is the minimum for private recreational flying.
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