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From: cfiaime@ihnp4.UUCP (Jeff Williams)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Re: Airmans Physicals & Eye Sight
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 13:55:04 EDT
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> Re: 2nd class and 1st class vision
> 
> 
> Anybody got any idea why there is an UNcorrected standard at all ???
> 
> I've already thought about the idea of "What if your glasses fall off ?"
> and discarded that because it could be easily overcome by a restriction
> stating that a 2nd pair be accessible.
> 
> Ron Miller  ( 20/450 correctable to 20/15)

Could it be that the FAA is allowing something less than the steely-eyed
superman in the cockpit?  There are some people without 20/20 vision that
function perfectly well without corrective lenses (yarg!  He sounds FAA
like himself!).  It is nothing more than the standard "ooops factor"
as applied to medical standards.  

				jeff williams
				AT&T Bell Laboratories
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