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Old 25th Oct 2006, 09:03
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DRJAD
 
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Originally Posted by pboyall
For Medical you might want to look in the Medical forum, but for a Class 2 Medical the current requirements are no more than +5.0 to -8.0 dioptres of correction (including astigmatism - add the two numbers on your prescription together, e.g. Left Eye -5.00 Refractive Error and -1.00 Astigmatism gives -6.00). You also can't have more than 3.00 dioptres of astigmatism.
The CAA pushed hard to liberalise the requirements from the original initial of -5.00, so they deserve some praise!
See here for all the details :
http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?ca...=90&pageid=538
Are you not talking of anisometropia, rather than astigmatism?
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