CLASS 1 QUERY

[Tomomac33]

Hi,
Looking for a bit of Help - Ill Keep it short and sweet
On the 6th June last year i was issued a Class 1 medical at Gatwick AFTER being initially refered on my eyes.
EYE PROBLEM - I was found to have 14* of exophoria for near for my eye test (what ever that means!!)
The consultant then had to check me out! - He was obviously happy for me to have one - i have a letter here from him stating
""I am quite happy for him to be considered fit for an unrestricted class one""
Now I checked my Medical certificate before and it expires on the 21/04 (12 months from my initial examination)
On the certificate it says i dont need to have anything done until 06-06-2007 (Ophthalmology (only if VDL/VML/VNL limitation applied)
FIRST Q,
How do i renew this medical if i dont need any tests?
SECOND Q,
Why do i need to get my eyes checked on the 06-06-2007 if i dont have any limitations (I dont wear glasses)
THIRD Q,
Also all the dates are mixed up! - because in 2007 im gonna have to renew on the 21/04 again and then get my eyes checked on the 06/06/07!
Am i missing sommet here? - Any ideas
Many Thanks
Tom

[Flight my fire]

You succeded in getting a Class 1 with exopohoria ? It means that you don't see all the stereoscopics and don't have a perfect depth and relief perception. Are they more relaxed at Gatwick? ( Do you wear prisms ?).

[Charlie Zulu]

There isn't a stereoscopics requirement for the JAA Class 1 at CAA HQ Gatwick as sterescopics is only useful for up to 20 metres or so. Past that it has been said that even those people with perfect stereoscopics vision use past experience to judge stopping distance. This is why peoiple with non-perfect stereoscopics vision can drive quite normally.

Straight from the CAA website:

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/49/SRG_MED_JAR_C1_Initial_Visual_Stds.pdf

Under the heading "Eye Function" on the last page:

You must have normal fields of vision.
You must not suffer from double vision.
Any degree of heterophoria (eye muscle imbalance) in excess of:
8 exo, 10 eso or 2 hyperphoria - measured at 6m
and
12 exo, 6 eso, 1 hyperphoria - measured at 33cm
will require further evaluation by an eye specialist at Gatwick.
There must be no acute of chronic disease in either eye or surrounding structures.

I couldn't type the prism symbol after each of the figures.

So it seems Tom had an evaluation done by the specialist as he was out of the initial limits and he was passed fit to fly...

[Tomomac33]

Yer thats right,

The test the specialist did was quite different to any test i had before.

He had a "glass test bar" that was made up of prisms - the angle of the prisms increased further down the scale and i think it ranged from 0 - 25. You had to focus on a dot in the distance and then he would put this scale in front of one of your eyes - the further down the scale he went the more the eye "towed" inwards and the harder it was to focus - until a point where your eye who no longer be able to cope and would "give in"! - then you would see TWO dots! - Hence double vision

Anyway - can anyone answer the questions?

Thanks Tom