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Old 24th Jan 2001, 06:24
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Your eyes sound fairly good, I can't see any practical reason that you should fail. The JAR visual requirements seem unecessarily tight to me.

Anyways, you are prbably right, I see more with my right eye than I do with my left. If you have a lot of hours, sometimes you can obtain a waiver. I was told that I am safe to fly, but the doc said that an airline may not want to hire a pilot with my vision.

I have tried to get a hold of some of the biggies to answer my question but they don't seem to want to get back to me (specificly the North American carriers). As far as surgery goes, I don't believe it can correct
amblyopia.

Hopefully, the vision requirements will lighten up somewhat as there are many aspiring pilots out there who lack "perfect vision" and still can do a good job of flying an aircraft.