Originally Posted by
Planespotta
You need good eyes. Have 20/20 close vision and 20/70 distant vision (correctable to 20/20). PRK is effective around 60% of the time, but the risk isn't really worth it.
Is your GPA out of 4 or 5? Usually, only the top of a flight class in the USAF, USMC, or USN will be granted their top choice of aircraft to fly, while all the others get dumped on helicopters and transports (which, frankly, wouldn't mind me! I'd like getting some time in the USAF flying heavies, if I could
).
Spotta,
Check your facts before you put them out here to individuals. PRK 60% successful? Do you really think the services would allow their aviators to have PRK with those kind of success rates? The risk of PRK being unsuccessful is pretty remote my friend, if I remember my Pre-OP PRK brief, something on the order of less than 1%. Of those that were unsuccessful, most were successful after a second treatment.
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