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Old 20th May 2015, 08:04
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Hi

i did the same thing but be careful!!! I was prescribed corrective glasses by my AME of a very low strength.

Not liking to be seen to be wearing glasses I had them tinted to look like a pale sunglass.

I went back with a pair of expensive glasses to redo the eye test and was told I had to do the whole test with the glasses including the colour test!
I could hardly get any numbers right and subsequently had to do the lantern test for colour having passed probably 20 colour tests since starting to fly.

I explained to him that I was looking at colours through a colour to no avail . Ie if you put on yellow glasses and look at blue you would see green

Any pilot wearing sunglasses would effectively be colour blind no matter how good their colour vision.

so be cautious buying tinted glasses or go to boots and buy some cheap clear ones for the test
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