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Recommendations for cataract surgery lenses for flying
One thing to keep in mind is that your eyes can change after cataract surgery. It's been four years since my surgery, and I've gone from 20/10 to 20/20 (from astigmatic changes). FWIW, I chose the fixed focus IO lenses.
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Thanks for the explanation RO. The instructor I mentioned was my instrument-airplane instructor. Funny, that instructor never objected to my moving my head around while under the hood or in the cloud, only when landing. Of course we weren't pulling many Gs in the 172.
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How does the monovision approah https://www.aoa.org/patients-and-pub...ses/monovision
work out for pilots? 1.Does it degrade your scan for traffic on the side with close vision? 2.Does the associated degradation of depth perception affect your landings, or do you adapt after a short 'retraining period'? |
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Recommendations for cataract surgery lenses for flying
On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 6:43:39 PM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:
How does the monovision approah https://www.aoa.org/patients-and-pub...ses/monovision work out for pilots? 1.Does it degrade your scan for traffic on the side with close vision? 2.Does the associated degradation of depth perception affect your landings, or do you adapt after a short 'retraining period'? My understanding is mono vision contact lenses are not approved for flying by the FAA. |
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Recommendations for cataract surgery lenses for flying
Well well well....I forgot a good nugget of info. I have “Spreadsheet” or “Bookkeeper “ lenses made for my reader glasses that provides a wider field of view.
Again, tri-focal with clear top half for distance over the panel/dashboard, next is 1.0 wide field that allow me to read the instrument panel including the FOs with little head movement, and 2.0 for reading maps and small print,etc. I then have the Optician gradient dye the lenses Serengetti Amber approaching clear into the lower have. Sweet Alabama , very happy and the amber contrast gliders nicely. I also have a non-tint for night flying. R |
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Recommendations for cataract surgery lenses for flying
FAA......I have been wearing mono contacts for 45 years. My medical stipulates only that I wear corrective lenses for far and near vision.
Contacts plus bifocals equal corrected vision. R |
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Recommendations for cataract surgery lenses for flying
On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 8:02:15 PM UTC-4, Retting wrote:
FAA......I have been wearing mono contacts for 45 years. My medical stipulates only that I wear corrective lenses for far and near vision. Contacts plus bifocals equal corrected vision. R I think we communicated. Here is a reference from FAA 17-2021 FAA brochure on pilot vision. A Word about Contact Lenses Monovision contact lenses (one contact lens for distant vision and the other lens for near vision) make the pilot alternate his/her vision; that is, a person uses one eye at a time, suppressing the other, and consequently impairs binocular vision and depth perception. These lenses are not acceptable for piloting an aircraft. |
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Recommendations for cataract surgery lenses for flying
On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 5:29:33 PM UTC-7, JB Gunner wrote:
On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 8:02:15 PM UTC-4, Retting wrote: FAA......I have been wearing mono contacts for 45 years. My medical stipulates only that I wear corrective lenses for far and near vision. Contacts plus bifocals equal corrected vision. R I think we communicated. Here is a reference from FAA 17-2021 FAA brochure on pilot vision. A Word about Contact Lenses Monovision contact lenses (one contact lens for distant vision and the other lens for near vision) make the pilot alternate his/her vision; that is, a person uses one eye at a time, suppressing the other, and consequently impairs binocular vision and depth perception. These lenses are not acceptable for piloting an aircraft. I've tried a mono vision contact lens, and thought it gave up quite a bit of far visual acuity. Of course a pilot can fly with just one eye, so again it depends. I know several pilots who have had monovision Lasik correction (one eye corrected for near vision). |
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Recommendations for cataract surgery lenses for flying
On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 9:53:03 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
But why would anyone do that when he can have perfect uncorrected distant vision and simply wear clear vision sunglasses with a bifocal reader built in.* Seems silly, or maybe just vain, to me to go through the suggested "alternatives". On 3/22/2018 10:08 AM, jfitch wrote: I've tried a mono vision contact lens, and thought it gave up quite a bit of far visual acuity. Of course a pilot can fly with just one eye, so again it depends. I know several pilots who have had monovision Lasik correction (one eye corrected for near vision). -- Dan, 5J I agree with you for flying, when sunglasses might be necessary anyway, in the rest of life glasses are a serious pain in the ass. |
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