aeromedical optometrist (if there is such a thing)

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 06:17:18 GMT, tony roberts
wrote:

Ask your optometrist about wearing ONE contact lens.
One eye does distance and the other follows it.
One eye does instruments and the other follows it.
Best thing that I ever saw - it works great.

You can actually get distance for one eye and near for the other, but
here's an even better deal:

My former CFI had eye trouble over the past few years, requiring two
separate operations. By incredible good luck, he actually came out of
the operations with 20/20 distance vision in his right eye, and near
vision for his left! He now almost never uses glasses, though he does
have reading glasses for really small print.

But of course this doesn't really address what the poster needs, which
evidently is some sort of trifocal for his instrument panel.


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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...

Ok. There's an AME named Kincade in the New Brunswick area who's an opthamalogist and
pilot.

I've been to him. But back when I saw him he was going by the name of Kinadczuk or something
difficult like that. I got a postcard from him saying he was changing his name. He was OK as far
as AME's go.

"tony roberts" wrote in message news:nospam-64C7F3.23175126092004@shawnews...
Ask your optometrist about wearing ONE contact lens.
One eye does distance and the other follows it.
One eye does instruments and the other follows it.
Best thing that I ever saw - it works great.


Absolutely forbidden to fly with these.

You can get monovision correction with LASIK and fly, but the FAA prohibits
pilots flying with monovision contacts. They're really hinky about this because a
pilot dumped a MD-80 on a visual approach to LaGuardia a few years back
partially attributed to these lenses.

Ron Natalie wrote:

I've been to him. But back when I saw him he was going by the name of Kinadczuk or something
difficult like that.

Kinzakuk (pronounced Kin - zah - cook).

He was OK as far as AME's go.

He's a perfectionist -- wants to do the best job possible. While I like that in a
pilot or an eye doctor, when he's serving as an AME, he's working for the FAA, not
for me. If there's any question about your exam, it goes to Oklahoma City (he even
skips the regional flight surgeon). Once that's done, neither he nor his staff is any
help at all in finding the status of your deferred medical -- they can't or won't
even give you the phone number of the FAA office there.

I prefer someone a little closer to the "if he can see well enough to write the
check, he's ok" sort of AME. Or at least someone willing to find out why OK City
hasn't responded after three months or so.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.

It sounds like what you need is a custom pair of bi-focals.
I had the same problem, and "readers" don't solve it.
Reading prescriptions are cut for a distance of 12" to 18"
where you would ordinarily hold a book or newspaper.

Talk to your optometrist, and tell him exactly what you
want from your lower prescription, and he'll adjust the
focal distance for you accordingly. In my case, I told him
I need to see my instrument panel that was out just about
to arms length (more than twice the typical focal distance
of reading prescriptions), and he adjusted my prescription
accordingly. Problem solved. The down side is that you
now have a pair of glasses that are "single function", i.e.
suitable only for flying, but then, that's what they're for.

Anyway, they work for me. Something to think about.

Good luck.

It sounds like what you need is a custom pair of bi-focals.
I had the same problem, and "readers" don't solve it.
Reading prescriptions are cut for a distance of 12" to 18"
where you would ordinarily hold a book or newspaper.

Talk to your optometrist, and tell him exactly what you
want from your lower prescription, and he'll adjust the
focal distance for you accordingly. In my case, I told him
I need to see my instrument panel that was out just about
to arms length (more than twice the typical focal distance
of reading prescriptions), and he adjusted my prescription
accordingly. Problem solved. The down side is that you
now have a pair of glasses that are "single function", i.e.
suitable only for flying, but then, that's what they're for.

Anyway, they work for me. Something to think about.

Good luck.

"Jasset" wrote


It sounds like what you need is a custom pair of bi-focals.
I had the same problem, and "readers" don't solve it.
Reading prescriptions are cut for a distance of 12" to 18"
where you would ordinarily hold a book or newspaper.

Talk to your optometrist, and tell him exactly what you
want from your lower prescription, and he'll adjust the
focal distance for you accordingly. In my case, I told him
I need to see my instrument panel that was out just about
to arms length (more than twice the typical focal distance
of reading prescriptions), and he adjusted my prescription
accordingly. Problem solved. The down side is that you
now have a pair of glasses that are "single function", i.e.
suitable only for flying, but then, that's what they're for.

Anyway, they work for me. Something to think about.

Good luck.
*********************

Sounds like the situation is like where I am, or will be, any day now.

I know what the cure is. Trifocals. (or progressive lenses) I just resist
the idea of having to get them.
--
Jim in NC


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"Jasset" wrote


It sounds like what you need is a custom pair of bi-focals.
I had the same problem, and "readers" don't solve it.
Reading prescriptions are cut for a distance of 12" to 18"
where you would ordinarily hold a book or newspaper.

Talk to your optometrist, and tell him exactly what you
want from your lower prescription, and he'll adjust the
focal distance for you accordingly. In my case, I told him
I need to see my instrument panel that was out just about
to arms length (more than twice the typical focal distance
of reading prescriptions), and he adjusted my prescription
accordingly. Problem solved. The down side is that you
now have a pair of glasses that are "single function", i.e.
suitable only for flying, but then, that's what they're for.

Anyway, they work for me. Something to think about.

Good luck.
*********************

Sounds like the situation is like where I am, or will be, any day now.

I know what the cure is. Trifocals. (or progressive lenses) I just resist
the idea of having to get them.
--
Jim in NC


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On 09 Oct 2004 15:16:38 GMT, (Jasset) wrote:

The down side is that you
now have a pair of glasses that are "single function", i.e.
suitable only for flying, but then, that's what they're for.

You can get "Smart Seg" bifocals that will cover both uses. They were
prescribed for me when I first started taking flying lessons, and I
found I had to keep asking the instructor while dial was the
altimeter.

(Within a month, I had switched to a Cub, where the problem was moot.
But I still use the glasses for every day. They are especially useful
when shaving.)

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On 09 Oct 2004 15:16:38 GMT, (Jasset) wrote:

The down side is that you
now have a pair of glasses that are "single function", i.e.
suitable only for flying, but then, that's what they're for.

You can get "Smart Seg" bifocals that will cover both uses. They were
prescribed for me when I first started taking flying lessons, and I
found I had to keep asking the instructor while dial was the
altimeter.

(Within a month, I had switched to a Cub, where the problem was moot.
But I still use the glasses for every day. They are especially useful
when shaving.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
email: (put Cubdriver in subject line)

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