An aging pilot

A pilot at the local airport (who is 85) recently sold his plane. When
I asked him why he said that the sight in one of his eyes was getting
poor, and he didn't think he could pass the medical again.

What did he need that extra eye for? I have had no useful forward
vision in my left eye for 70 years that I know of (I got specs at age
2). Except for a bit of extra caution with noting where the wingtips
are, the spare eye serves no useful purpose while flying.

(Well, there's my flight instructor, who has come out of several eye
operations with the astonishing ability to read close stuff with his
left eye while he has 20/20 distance vision in his right eye. He's one
of the few people I know who entered their sixties throwing glasses
away!)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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