FLAV8R wrote:

I have been working for the same airline for 20 years now and I can
tell you that when I first started with my company they did not hire
pilots with corrected vision.

Yes, and airlines also didn't hire women pilots awhile back either. I
just get really annoyed these days when I see people like Dale make
these very outdated claims about vision requirements. The fact is that
the FAA has been basing distant vision requirements on corrected vision
for a LONG time. Was there ever a time when they weren't I wonder?

The airlines have been hiring people with corrected vision for a long
time now too - this didn't just happen last year. I'd guess at least
15 years or longer?


Let this be a lesson to you younger pilots with career aspirations.
Don't let anyone tell you that you can't just because they couldn't.

David - Proud Private Pilot (age: 44)

Yes!! One could argue that more research would've been prudent when I
was younger, but the idea of having to have natural "eagle eye" vision
and join the military to be a pilot is (still) so prevalent among the
general population that I didn't even see the point. When I was a
teenager, to me the idea of being a commercial pilot was as far fetched
as becoming an astronaut.

Luckily I figured it out when I was still in my mid-20s. I'm on track
to be a CFI right about the time I turn 30 next spring. I am SO glad I
didn't just give up on the idea when I was younger.

Unfortunately I have talked to other people that did give up on the
idea because they "wore glasses" and are now in situations (age,
family, job, debt, etc.) that won't allow them to pursue their old
dream (at least in their way of thinking).