Timeline for What kind of injury would force a Navy EA-6B pilot to stop flying and take a desk job?
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| Jun 18, 2021 at 1:31 | comment | added | Michael Hall | @nick012000, 20/20 has always been a pretty hard requirement, what varies is whether or not it can be corrected to 20/20. Generally they want to take in pilots that have 20/20 (or better) uncorrected, but if they are short you may get a waiver. Once they have invested a million $ into your training it would be foolish to boot you out just because you need glasses. But again, it needs to be correctable to an acceptable level. | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 19:41 | comment | added | nick012000 | Looking it up, there's pretty strict limits on how bad a pilot's vision is allowed to be, though it seems like the requirement of 20/20 vision was relaxed in the 90s. Anything that caused vision to degrade past the level required would be sufficient to get a pilot grounded while still live a normal life. | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 14:28 | history | answered | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |