In case of LASIK surgery you need 3 months to re-instate your class 1 medical, whereas in case of PRK surgery you need 6 months to re-instate your class 1 medical.
In the case you are not yet a professional pilot or have already started your flight training, I would suggest to get your medical 3-4 months after the operation in the case of LASIK surgery.
Awh, I would even say nothing about the operation then.
I suggest you to go to Dr Orton, located in Stansted.
More than 2 dioptres, eh? If yes, I am in your same situation and I'm unfit for class 1 medical in Europe. In November we will have news about new regulation that will enter in force by april 2012. Thanks to these new regulations I will be fit for a class 1 medical, all pre-operative limitations in case of myopia will be removed, dunno about astigmatism though.
I will probably spent 1 or 2 years in the USA where I will undergo a LASIK or PRK surgery and later convert my licences to JAA. FAA does not require 3 months in case of eye surgery, so I would be able to get in the sky just after the opthalmologist checks my eyes ater 7-10 days the operation and declares me able to fly without any problems by filling a simple module to be sent to the FAA.
Hope EASA will adopt the same procedures soon.
Very professional and it will take only 1 or 2 hours instaed of a whole morning.
JL
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