Hey guys
theres a few videos and threads on the SODA and process
if in doubt call the AOPA medical license division they will tell you the process but it’s something like this
contact local flight surgeon with a letter requesting med flight test and why, send a copy of the official FAA vision form that your optometrist completes (can’t recall the form name it’s like form 6400 or something like that)
flight surgeon will call/write a letter to you saying ok go ahead take a flight test and contact this local FSDO
you contact the local FAA FSDO and they schedule the test
you do the test, they ask things like ‘ok how far away is that object’ ‘how high do you think we are without looking at instruments’
watch you land and operate the aircraft safely
they tell you you pass or not and you receive a SODA in the mail and take for life to future AME appts
that’s the just of it but ask AOPA for the exact details
Airlines don’t care and it’s none of their business as you will have a 1st Class and that’s all that matters