Airplane maniac?

Arc the difference between getting into the RAF and getting to fly is quite a distance appart. the RAF wont let you fly unless u have natural 20 20 vision, no contacts, no glasses, no laser eye surgery. courdse u can join up if u have less than perfect vision, you´ll just have to work as ground crew or some other job that doent really have much to do with flying. the Navy Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Core are the same as well. i was really into becomming a pilot when i was younger, but my vision is border line (i dont need glasses for reading from a board. but have trouble distinguishing objects at great distances without them) and with my dad being in the forces finding out this stuff was quite easy. (you can get all the medical criteria from the career´s office). So now im happy to learn how to maintain aircraft avionics etc... (got a work experience placement at the airport next month playing with Jumbo´s <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> ) and i eventually want to jouin the navy as an aircraft technician. (the RAF is SOO blase <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> ) plus my dad met a lot of navy pilots in the falklands who just &quot;seemed more stylish&quot;. and recently i saw 4 harriers fly backwards in a diamond formation across the airfield at akrotiri, just to show off to the RAF red arrows. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> now that was cool. wish i lived on that airfield actually. beats the barracks here. hmm i seem to have ranted on a bit. ill shut up now....

If you have a successful laser eye surgery, (They´re getting better) then you will have 20/20 vision and the RAF won´t give a rat´s ass how you got the 20/20 vision. In fact I read something the other day how laser eye surgery is beginning to develop a better strategy and can give even better that 20/20 vision. I can´t remember if it was 20/10 or something but it would be like super vision the article was saying. <img src=´http://www.lancersreactor.org/images/news/mssig.gif ´> The Major.

but ATM the UK armed forces have it written down that you cant have laser eye surgery and fly. sucky yet true.

The IAF, RSAF (Royal Swedish Air Force), USAF and USN have all dropped the laser eye surgery prohibition, they have figured out that all that matters is how well you can see, not how you got the vision. Good for me. And it´s quite natural that the IAF should drop it, how often do you see a jew without glasses?<img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Spear - Me want a Spitfire!

What is that 20/20 eye vision you guys are talking about? And <b>this </b> is how meant is spelled

It means perfect vision Wizard.

i could have told you if my sister had become an optometrist like she was going to, but instead she became an occupational bloody therapist. ho hum