MPC3@Lehigh (12/11/90)
From: MPC3@Lehigh Charles Allen, I am currently enrolled in the Air Force ROTC program here at Lehigh University, competing for a pilot slot. As far as I know, All pilots (fighter to transport) must have 20/20 vision. There may be some regulation about what a pilots vision is allowed to drop to after he is in and been trained. They're not taking in pilots with less than perfect vision. Michael P. Colalillo mpc3@ns.cc.lehigh.edu
dxb105@csc.anu.edu.au (12/13/90)
From: dxb105@csc.anu.edu.au Ed(ward?) Mannock was a telephone technician, working for a British company in Turkey when Turkey entered the first world war. He was imprisoned as an enemy alien, but released, at the age of twenty-nine, in poor health. Somehow he wangled himself training as a pilot, despite being almost blind without his glasses. He scored ~72 kills, and, I think, survived the war. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Bofinger AARNet: dxb105@phys.anu.edu.au Snail: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, RSPhysS, ANU, ACT, 2601 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "To our friends, the good guys. And to our enemies, the bad guys. And to the hope that someday we will be able to tell the difference." - Keith Laumer
gjuy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Andrew D. Williams) (12/15/90)
From: gjuy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Andrew D. Williams) Michael P. Colalillo writes: > stuff deleted... > Lehigh University, competing for a pilot slot. As far as I know, > All pilots (fighter to transport) must have 20/20 vision. There > may be some regulation about what a pilots vision is allowed to > drop to after he is in and been trained. They're not taking in > pilots with less than perfect vision. Hi, The Air Force regulations for selecting pilots state that the candidate must have 20/20. For me it worked this way. I was selected as a pilot during my Junior Fall Semester. It turns out that the physical they used was from my Senior Spring of High School. When I got to LATR (Light Aircraft Training ROTC,) where they look to screen candidates based on flying skills, my vision was 20/40 (Left) and 20/50 (Right.) That posed no problem. Later, -- Andrew D. Williams Cornell University Law School Educational Technologies Computing Lab Supervisor Ithaca, New York BitNet: gjuy@cornella Internet: gjuy@corenlla.cit.cornell.edu Standard Disclaimer Applies... Hoping for a future in Space Infrastructure Development
anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee) (12/15/90)
From: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee) There was also a German ace in WWII who wore sunglasses (actually glasses to correct his shortsightness) to hide his shortshightness. -- Anthony Lee (Michaelangelo teenage mutant ninja turtle) (Time Lord Doctor) ACSnet: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz TEL:+(61)-7-371-2651 Internet: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au +(61)-7-377-4139 (w) SNAIL: Dept Comp. Science, University of Qld, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia