Old 06-30-2009 | 11:20 AM
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The FAA has no prescription strength limit, you must be correctable to 20/20 in each eye separately (plus near vision I think is 20/40 corrected). If you can do that, you can get an FAA 1st class.

FAA use to have a 20/100 uncorrected requirement (each eye), but that was eliminated over a decade ago. Some US airlines do their own medical exam, and some continued to require 20/100 uncorrected (which you would not meet with that prescription). I think that requirement is going away do to lawsuits, and fewer airlines do their own medical exam anymore...many just accept an FAA first class as good.
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