If your vision changes after you are jet qualified the military will
allow you to use correction (although probably not contacts). They
aren't going to throw away the millions they spend on your training.
So its not unusual to see figher pilots (especially the older COs)
using correction. I can actually name a few myself. I wonder what the
military thinks of some of these new surgeries?



What I want to know is why the History channel showed an F-15 pilot
wearing standard civilian sunglasses in the airplane during flight, yet
people who require corrective lenses can't fly the plane. At least, this
is what the recruiters have told me. Piloting a fighter jet - of any sort
- has been my dream since my preteen years. I know there are many, many
more requirements than mere visual acuity, of course, but I feel cheated
that they won't allow prescription glasses in the cockpit but they'll
allow other glasses in. That was the main reason the recruiter gave me
was that glasses couldn't be worn, so acuity had to be nearly perfect.
Has this changed any?