Originally Posted by
Jordon11
Thanks for the info. I heard the ADA doesn’t matter when it comes to “safety” so requiring a pilot be 20/20 correctable is a non issue which is what I am seeing lots of majors require..
The FAA requires each eye to be correctable to 20/20. Has nothing to do with ADA. Visual collision avoidance and landing at night would get very scary, very quickly as your vision degrades much below 20/20.
As long as you have one eye correctable to 20/20 you should be fine, you can get a waiver and airlines today will not apply higher standards than the FAA. There are guys in the airlines today who only have one eye period.
There are plenty of guys with SODA's, often for color vision. If your vision was only correctable to say 20/30 and you got a SODA, that would probably fine for general aviation, especially daytime, but I'm not sure you could land a big jet at night very well with much worse than that.
If you tell us what the actual problem is, we might be able to give better advice.