There are certain things that should be pretty much automatic once we get to middle age, and annual eye exams are one of them.īy an eye exam, I don't mean reading the eye chart at the DMV. That he wants to be a pilot is actually secondary to age in this regard. My point is that that he hasn't had his eyeballs checked in some time. It doesn't matter to me that we're just taking about reading glasses, which are a normal appendage of middle and old age. All I know is what you're saying, and what that boils down to for me is this: A middle-aged or older guy hasn't had his eyeballs checked in a while. But best to find out BEFORE the denial so that none of this happens.

So the opthalmologist will find and fix his cataract, and he will be better for it. What SHOULD I think? 'Application discouraged, and if he insists, denied', like the system demands. How about a guy who can't see? What kind of judgement has he got? So NO third approach, just the LPV to 288 at my home port. So I see between approaches, at 2300 it's now three degrees colder than when I started. Fortunately, the bottoms are at 400 two approaches (ILS to 200 and LPV to home) are borrring and the needles (hand flown) are LOCKED in the donut. Yesterday the Skew T shows a layer from 300 agl to 4,000, no ice in the tops (by temps) just yet. When a pilot fails for something as simple.well what should I think? Mind you, I spend a lot of my time prepping and defending pilots who just won't do what it takes. Good on you, Bluee for leading him to the trough. If he's a senior aviator, what kind of pilot is he going to be? He'll be the kind of guy who doesn't see you in the pattern, cuts you off, blasts away from the fuel pumps barely missing the other guy's wing because HE CAN'T SEE THE THING even if he thought of it, or sandblasting the fabric taildragger behind the turn because he 'can't see it clearly'? But seriously, when a man doesn't know his limitations, what kind of a student is he going to be?

So what conclusion might one arrive at? That vision is not vital to safety? Or that being able to see might shorten one's training time? Or that maybe just maybe, the guy doesn't 'get it' and gets denied? Maybe is there some bass-ackwards FAA 'justice' going on here (no, NOT really. This is all about aviation safety, isn't it?

Hating to admit to your limitations is a leading cause of aviation FUBARS. The Flight Physical is a practical test.Ĭome unprepared for the practical test.

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