New Jar-Fcl vision requirements in effect?

[Jimmy The Big Greek]

I just looked at the JAA website and it seems that they have relaxed the vision requirements. especially in astigmatism and anisometropia. Can someone confirm this.

www.jaa.nl/jars_npas/jars/435247.pdf

[The96er]

Could you tell me what has changed, having looked through the file, the standards look exactly the same to me.

Cheers

the96er

[Jimmy The Big Greek]

This is strange. When I had a look now they changed it back to the old ones.

I remember one more thing that they had changed. The uncorrected vision was 5/9 instead of 6/9.

Also it said that the astigmatic component in initial examination should not exceed 3 diopters for initial and if it exceeded they caa could approve even higher.

But It seems they have the old one now.

[The96er]

Jimmy, it's likely that you were looking at the standards for the Class 2 medical as opposed to the Class 1 standards. As far as i know the eye-sight standards are unlikly to change at least in the near future, My only recomendation is that if you are able to make the revalidation standards and not initial, then the UK CAA will look at you on an individual basis and issue you a Class 1 deviation which is lifted after completing your CPL. This was the route I went down after having first failed my Class 1 a few years ago because my Astigmatism was -3.00 dioptres, I have now been issued a Class 1 Deviation.

The96er

[Vee One...Rotate]

I'm currently in the process of treading the route of The96er as well.

V1R

[Jimmy The Big Greek]

Well I am quite sure it was for first class medical.
Anyway I am a pilot with FAA ATPL. I have 2 diopters of astigmatism in left and 1.25 in right. I am just concerned what would happen if I would exceed 3 diopters. I am 30 years old and should be fairly stable but the 3.0 diopter is not far away though.
This is the bad thing about being a pilot.

[Engineer]

These are the specs as posted on the UKCAA website

Your visual acuity (your ability to see, in this case, lines of letters on a chart at 6 metres) must be at least 6/9 in
each eye separately and 6/6 using both eyes together, with or without glasses or contact lenses (correction). If
you need correction the refractive error (the amount of correction) must not exceed +5.00 dioptres of long sight
or -5.00 dioptres of short sight. This is in the most ametropic meridian (taking into account any astigmatism).
Astigmatism must not exceed 2.00 dioptres. The difference in correction between each eye (anisometropia)
must not be more than 2.00 dioptres. Your optometrist will be able to explain these terms.
On the standard near vision eye chart you must be able to read the N5 print between 30 and 50 cm and the
N14 print at 100 cm, with or without correction.

Hope it helps