Medical not valid when using sunglasses?
This is a continuation from another thread on the use of sunglasses.
I went for a medical a couple of years ago and my AME determined that I had to wear glasses for low light reading and hence for flying.
I trundled off to the eye specialists who determined that I was borderline on needing glasses but if my AME said so they would give me the lowest strength lense to satisfy his requirements.
I didnt like the idea of wearing glasses so had them coloured to appear more like sunglasses and ordered and payed for two sets.
With my new glasses in hand I returned to my AME who ran through the eye tests again.
This time I failed the colour book test. Knowing that I had many colour tests in the past and that colour blindness doesnt change it dawned on me that the change was because I was looking through the book through coloured lenses. ie wear blue glasses and look at yellow and you will see green etc.
I argued this point but was told that the regs required the test to be done with the prescription lenses worn.
Another delay and off to the eye specialists, more expense and a set of clear lenses had to be bought.
This time no probs and the medical was issued.
But this begs the question that any pilot wearing sunglasses is colour blind while wearing them, would fail a colour test wearing sunglasses and following on from that could be liable should an accident occur while wearing sunglasses? mad or what?
Pace