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Old 25th Jul 2008, 12:16
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ACIDO
 
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From CAA website:
"The CAA does not recommend refractive surgery to gain a medical certificate to fly. The decision to have this type of treatment must be between you and your eye specialist. In fact the certification limits of eye correction with glasses and the limits of refraction before surgery are the same, so it is not possible to gain a medical certificate by having refractive surgery, that you would not have obtained by wearing glasses.
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the pre-operative refraction should not have been more than + 5.00 to -6 dioptres"

So, before having surgery, you were outside the limits for your astighmatism (-3,75 instead of -2,00 max).
Did you get a special authorization from CAA or what else?

Thanx

Bye

ACIDO
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