Current vision requirements
Heres the instruction for the navy if your going into the airforce i dont know what theres is. Your gonna have to dig and find out about your particular problem but its in there.
http://www.nomi.med.navy.mil/NAMI/WaiverGuideTopics/index.htm
12.2 COLOR VISION ABNORMALITIES
AEROMEDICAL CONCERNS: Normal color vision is required to accurately identify warning lights and color visual displays in the cockpit, external visual cues including airfield lighting, the Fresnel lens, aircraft formation lights. Interactions with other optical devices, such as laser protective visors, may compound a given problem.
WAIVER: Applicants are CD, no waiver. Waivers have been granted for flight surgeons, aerospace physiologists and other selected Class 2 aircrew on a case-by-case basis. Waivers for a change in color vision in designated personnel are usually granted if not due to ocular pathology.
INFORMATION REQUIRED:
1. Following a conference with the Air Force on vision standards and procedures, the Pseudo-Isochromatic Plates (PIP) are the preferred primary test.
a. For the Navy, 12 of 14 correctly identified plates constitute a passing score. The preferred lighting is the MacBeth lamp. If one is not available, a daylight fluorescent bulb may be used. Do not use incandescent lighting as this may allow persons with mild deuteranomalous (green weak) deficiencies to pass. Passing criteria is 12 or more plates correctly read, i.e., no more than 2 errors. Record the findings as the number of plates correctly read out of 14. For example: PIPs 13/14 correct "PASS" or PIPs 9/14 correct "FAIL".
2. If member cannot pass the PIP, the FALANT may be administered as an alternative, if available.
a. Passing criteria for FALANT remain 9/9 or 16/18 correct responses.
3. If a designated crewmember fails both, evaluation is required to screen for acquired pathology, as well as a test of demonstrated ability, usually performed with the flight surgeon and safety officer as observers.
TREATMENT: N/A.
DISCUSSION: Defective color vision is usually congenital. In Caucasians, approximately 8% of males have inherited color defective vision and approximately 2% are dichromats with severe deficiency. The largest group is actually trichromatic, actually color weak rather than color deficient. Dichromatics are protanopes if they have a red-green deficiency related to red-sensitive cone loss, deuteranopes if they are red-green deficient related to green-sensitive cone loss and tritanopes if they have blue-yellow deficiency related to blue-sensitive cone loss. Deuteranopes and protanopes have difficulty interpreting VASI lights' red-white color relationship. Protanopes have difficulty interpreting red high speed taxiway exit and runway end marker lights. At night, dichromats may be further reduced to monochromaticity when the physiological phenomenon of small field tritanopia is added; this is of relevance in distinguishing navigation and anti-collision lights. Color vision can be affected after optic neuritis or in macular degeneration, central serous retinopathy, and multiple sclerosis or as a sequela to heavy metal poisoning. Some color vision deficiencies are acceptable, the most problematical being red/green abnormalities.
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