<p>I received my DoDMERB letter about a week ago saying that I was “Commission Qualified”. Looking over this site, I’ve seen many who state they are “Potential Pilot Qualified”. My letter says nothing about being qualified or disqualified for flying. As one of my goals is to be a pilot, this has me a bit worried…can someone explain the difference between “Commision Qualified”, and “Potential Pilot Qualified”, and perhaps why I didn’t have this notice in my letter as others do? I have 20/15 vision, no disabilities with color, and no astigmatism.</p>
<p>As far as I know, "commisison qualified" means at this point you are not qualified to be a pilot. There are three medical qualifications, potential pilot, navigator, and commision. However, they do conduct another physical before you graduate from usafa to determine your commision status. I'm curious as to why you would be only commission qualified if all you stats check out? Send them an e-mail to double check.</p>
<p>Yeah thats pretty weird for you to be commissioned qualified if you have perfect vision...how tall are you and how much do you weigh? that could be the problem..there are height and weight restrictions.. I am only comission qualified because i have an astgmatism and really bad eyesight..but im hoping to get the surgery before i graduate. Dodmerb is really a pain to deal with so i would ask them right away about it!!</p>
<p>5'9- 190 (then). Ya- this is really wierd and disapointing. My eyesight is perfect, so I don't understand why that would effect my status; unless my height/weight ratio is off. The only positive side to this, with the height/weight thing (assuming my ratio doesn't meet requirements), is I put on as much weight as I can for my sports season, so when I had the exam in Nov., I weighed more than usual. And as far as contacting the DoDMERB, I can relate. I called them earlier about help logging onto their site and had to go through three different people, and be on hold. Plus I'm on Pacific Time, so I have to get excused out of class just to call them. But I imagine they are crammed with people trying to get waivers.</p>
<p>Don't worry about the DoDMERB classifications because the Academy Grad physical is what determines your real PQ. That is 2+ years down the road for many of you and things change. I am currently undergoing my grad physicals. Who knows if I will actually be PQ (as I was on DoDMERB). The grad physical takes a much closer look at everything.</p>
<p>So once I take my grad. physical, will they see that I was not qualified when first applying and pass me over? Or is everything re-evaluated?</p>
<p>Everything is pretty much re-evaluated. I have a friend that is in the class of '06 who received his Pilot slot based on a pending PQ. He didn't receive word on his PQ until early December last year. They won't just shut you out if you have potential to become a pilot. There are always waivers.</p>
<p>"...There are always waivers..."</p>
<p>Where there's a will, there's a waiver. ;)</p>
<p>According to the height/weight requirements chart, the maximum weight for someone who is 69 inches is 186 pounds. That could be your problem.</p>
<p>The best thing you can do is ASK DoDMERB. Speculating is just that... speculating.</p>
<p>Just curious what is the max hieght for PQ?
Anyone know?
I'm 6'4"ish
as if the color blindness thing isnt bad enough</p>
<p>Standing Height
64 inches minimum to 77 inches maximum for both pilot and navigator qualification.</p>
<p>Sitting Height
34 inches minimum (pilot) and 33 inches minimum (navigator) to 40 inches maximum (both), measured while sitting erect, the distance from top of head to chair seat.</p>
<p>If you are color blind, I think that's pretty much a knock-out punch.</p>
<p>Its only a mild color deficency, and I think I can pass the test (wink wink).</p>
<p>If I go over the max height, then I'm in trouble.</p>
<p>I'm 6'2'' with a sitting height of like 37 or 38 inches, I'm all legs. I think I'm done growing but I wish I were about 5'10''. The legs would fit a lot better in buses and airplanes and stuff. Plus it's kinda hard finding 33l x 29w pants.</p>
<p>As to the height, we have a friend who is 6'3. Flying F-16s was a struggle he was a tight squeeze in the cockpit. In 1990 he punch out out of a jet, it caused him to have spine problems. Later while being a SQ CC, 6 years past the ejection, he had to have his neck fused. They told him that being tall was contributing factor for the neck injury. Pulling 9 gs for 13 years!</p>
<p>As to the color blindness, 1982 class friend was mildly color blind. Some people are black and white only. Others are only green/red more of a milder form. He graduated with a fellowship to JFK school at Harvard. The Academy would waiver the color blindness only for UPT after graduation. Needless to say he went to UPT. He was able to go to Havard as a major and was on the latest BG list.</p>
<p>They waivered a lot, if you do well. Being a DG really helps.</p>
<p>You can find out why you are commissioned qualified by logging on to the DoDMERB website. It will state your disqualifying codes and provides the code chart.</p>