Astigmatism and Class 1, need advice...
Hello all,
Being an airline pilot has always been my dream. One of the reasons stopping me from starting my aviation train is I have the problem of astigmatism of 2.0, and 2.5 in each of my eyes. (or in chinese saying, 200 and 250 degree in each eye respectively.)
I am currently living in Hong Kong and since the HKCAD does not spell out the requirement like JAA (for example) does, I am getting confused on whether I could get the Class 1 medical. I tried to have a look at the JAA visual requirements for reference and their requirement for Astigmatism is 2.0 for initial applicants and 3.0 for renewal.
Does anybody know what the requirements for CAD are? and does anyone know if I have lasik done to cure the astigmatism, and after that 1 year waiting period, do they still need to consider the astigmatism problems i have before lasik?
I am aiming to join CX eventually either as cadet or direct entry pilot, thats the reason why I really want to know about what CAD or CX thinks.
I check with some old post and seemed like SIA do consider the original prescriptions before lasik....
I heard that there are some pilots with similar problems, what they have done is to get their license in a different standard like FAA or CASA (I dunno just for example...but do they have lower standard?) and then later on convert it into JAA, which would be count as a renewal of license? How did it work and have I misunderstood anything?
Thank you very much for help and advice in advance.
Last edited by ivierre; 16th January 2008 at 07:33.