Few days back I went for a small gathering. It comes to my concern of...
"Are you sure that a person who wears spec. can become a pilot?"
This question has actually been many aspiring pilots' worry.
Well, I'm not so sure about the PAST. What I know is PRESENT.
A pilot can wear a spec.. I remember those days when I was having no clues about how to become a pilot, it's one of my worries as well. I'm not a perfect fellow. I do have short sighted. Though power is less than 150. That time I was doubted. Shall I wear the spec. to correct back my vision ? Shall I do LASIK to get back the perfect vision? Shall I just leave it like that? Though my power for both eyes aren't that high. But it did make me worried before for... what if I need to wear spec.? Will they fail me because i'm wearing the spec.? Will they fail me because i don't have a perfect eyesight? All these questions came to my brain and kept wondered round and round.
Well, If YOU, A PILOT WANNA BE, facing the same like me, then i can say...STOP Worrying for it.
Aviation has aviation law. For the safety purpose, we need to meet it fundamental requirements. You can basically get the info. from AIC to understand what will be checked during medical check up, what's the min. requirement, where to do the check up,... & etc.
Back to the topic. For eyesight,
VISUAL ACUITY
class 1:
AT LEAST 6/9 IN EACH EYE SEPARATELY, & 6/6 WITH OR WITHOUT CORRECTION WITH BOTH EYES.
class 2:
AT LEAST 6/1 2 IN EACH EYE SEPARATELY, & 6/9 WITH OR WITHOUT CORRECTION WITH BOTH EYES.
class3:
AT LEAST 6/9 IN EACH EYE SEPARATELY, & 6/6 WITH OR WITHOUT CORRECTION WITH BOTH EYES
Wondering what is "visual acuity" , what is "6/9" , "6/6"...?
Here is the link for you to understand it.
In short, you can still be a pilot as long as after you correcting your vision with spec., your vision acuity can back to 6/6. It's just like a person who has short sighted, thereafter wearing a spec., he/she can see the wording/objects clearly. As simple as that.
If you're still worried your eyes power are too high, you may consider to do LASIK or contact aviation panel doctor about this. This is the panel doctor that i did my medical check up. If you need the whole list of the panel doctors in Malaysia which suit your location, email to me and i will send it to you.
DR.KEE PENG LEONG
DRS. YOUNG, NEWTON & PARTNERS
48, JALAN 52/4
46200 PETALING JAYA
SELANGOR
03-79569400 (Tel)
03-79562553 (Fax)
Good luck!
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The growing number of aircraft near-misses in US skies is making civilian aviation authorities increasingly concerned and has prompted them to reexamine air
"Over the last weeks there have been a number of instances where separation was lost between aircraft and in some cases there was a bit of a delay of notification that obviously caused some concern," Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford told AFP.
He said that all these incidents, the latest of which occurred just on May 21, remain under investigation.
"Anytime you lose the required separation between aircraft, it's unacceptable, and we work to figure out what happen and what we can do to prevent similar ones," Lunsford pointed out.
More than half a dozen extreme near-misses have been reported by the FAA over the past two months, prompting the National Transportation Safety Board to launch an inquiry.
On Friday, the NTSB reported that an Airbus A319 passenger jet and a
The board said the Airbus, US Airways Flight 140, was carrying 138 passengers and crew and the cargo plane a crew of two when they "came within an estimated 100 feet (30 meters) vertically and a .33-mile (530-meter) lateral separation."
The May 21 incident occurred at night near Anchorage International Airport as the cargo plane took off for Chicago and the US Airways flight was coming in for a landing from Phoenix, Arizona, the NTSB said in a statement.
The Airbus pilots scrapped their initial landing attempt due to tailwinds and after requesting new landing instructions from the control tower, were told to turn right and report back when they saw the 747 departing.
Once the cargo plane was sighted, the Airbus was told to "maintain visual separation," climb to 3,000 feet (910 meters) and turn right.
But the Airbus pilots refused to obey "because the turn would have put their flight in direct conflict with the B747," the NTSB said.
Instructed to "monitor
At 1,500 feet the plane's
"There were no reported injuries or damage to either aircraft," the NTSB said, adding that a board investigator was heading to Anchorage to investigate the incident.
In late March, a
A month later, two similar incidents occurred at Hobby Airport in Houston. The first involved a helicopter and a
Two other collisions were narrowly avoided at an airport in Burbank, California, earlier this month.
FAA administrator Randy Babitt recently brought together a group of experts to study the problem and come up with a solution.
Normally, these incidents have to be reported to the FAA within 24 hours, but in some cases the agency had not been notified for several days.
According to The
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