<p>This has really upset me the last couple of months. So here is my story:</p>
<p>Ever since I can remember, I have had next to perfect vision. I would easily read the bottom row of the eye exam charts. They would give me 20/10 in both eyes. In the last few months, I’ve started to notice distant objects being blurry. I realized that I cannot see clearly from a distance as I could when I was younger. I don’t know what is causing this, but I have an appointment with an optomitrist on Tuesday.</p>
<p>My question is, should I have worse than 20/20 vision, will my chances of admissions be hurt? I want to become a pilot in the Air Force, and I fear that my eyesight will not be good enough if this keeps up. Can you still become a pilot if you get correctional surgery?</p>
<p>It almost makes me mad. Why is this happening now?</p>
<p>But I’m sure h*** that this won’t get me down. This is just one more hurdle to getting an appointment to the USAFA.</p>
<p>Yes, once you go to the academy you can get correctional surgery and still become a pilot, I believe the Air Force allows PRK but not Lasik because Lasik can have problems with the G-forces, although you should definitely not do anything before you go. I think the academy bases qualification for surgery on whether your eyes are correctable to 20/20. I know my element leader at summer seminar had like 20/300 in one eye and was scheduled for PRK. Someone else may know more about this than me.</p>
<p>You have much better eyesight than I did going through DODMERB. If your eyesight becomes bad enough to where you need glasses or something (probably won't happen), you won't be pilot qualified, but you'll still be commissioned qualified and can still get an appointment. That's what happened to me. My thoughts are you won't get flagged for eyesight if you've had 20/10 in the past (it's something like 20/200 to need a waiver). Besides, even if you got disqualified, you could apply for awaiver. I believe USAFA10s is right about the surgery.</p>
<p>I have eyesight way worse than you do, but it is correctable. It proved to be no problem in the application and I didn't need a waiver. I probably will need surgery if I go pilot though.</p>
<p>If your eyesight is a bit blurry, you may get waivered first, since if it is kind of close they would rather give a waiver than go through the hassle of surgery.</p>
<p>as you get older, your eyes get worse. they arent stable til ~21, and that's why they schedule the PRK surgeries at the academy so late.. eyesight plays a small role in whether you get an appointment or not. 20/50 is the cutoff for pilot qualified, or PQ. you most likely wont need a waiver unless you go nearly legally blind before you get admitted... lol. the AF DOES allow lasik now, as of last may or something. but dont get it done before you go anywhere. if you meet requirements (your eyes and grades) you'll most likely get PRK at the academy anyway if you wanna be a pilot.. so definitely DONT worry about it. i've got bad vision anyway, and i got in</p>
<p>Ok, thanks for the help. It sounds like I should be PQ'd, since I know that I have better than 20/50 lol. I'm guessing that when filling pilot slots, they take the people with uncorrected vision first. I'll let you know how my eye appointment goes.</p>
<p>I just realized something. I can still see distant objects perfectly. I'm looking out my window at a powerline a mile and a half away, and I can see the wires perfectly. It is just letters and words that are hard to see. Weird. Nothing else is blurry.</p>
<p>I'm a little late, but like everyone else said, don't even worry about it. I have astigmatism in both eyes and a wandering eye that isn't correctable to 20/20 and I didn't have to get a waiver either.</p>
<p>first off, to you being 20/10, i have one thing to say: luke.</p>
<p>ok, moving on, you can wear glasses and still be PQ. i was given classes to correct my depth perception (i used to be far-sighted: right eye self corrected, left eye did not, so now i'm 20/20 b/c my right eye, but have no depth b/c my right eye dominates). so you should still be commissionable and therefore make it in, and then they'll work with you when ur here</p>
<p>wow eagle...that was just sad. </p>
<p>Eagle, one of your 2010 squadmates is over here in Korea with me. It seems like between her and the other 2010ers, I've heard "Luke" 11 billion times on this trip... ;)</p>
<p>Now back to the previous discussion...</p>
<p>Luke? I don't get it...</p>
<p>But yeah, I felt the same way at first with my eyesight, Idk what the number was, but I've always had like perfect vision, and I was a little worried when I noticed far away objects were kinda blurry, but when I got my eyes checked, they said I was 20/15, so don't worry about it unless you wake up to find that you can't read 10pt font... then you've got a problem lol, but you're still good for an appointment</p>
<p>Craznes, Lt</a>. Luke is 2010's exemplar. He's almost as cool as BGen Olds, in fact.</p>
<p>Gotcha, thanks for the clarification</p>