Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
FALANT has been/was the standard in Naval Aviation. I'm surprised - very surprised - that you have never run across it before. You and I have had physicals at most of the same locations and I've NEVER taken a color plate test in the military. Like I mentioned though - they seem to be wanting to phase the FALANT out of service.
Bunk - on my last physical they couldn't get to FLANT to work and I told them to call and get another over there or else I would just be talking to the Doc and I'd do the test when they fixed the machine.
as far as plates - I've used different types of plates during my FAA 1st class physicals. The last one I took had Xs and Os instead of numbers.
USMCFLYR
Interesting, because after almost 30 years of military flying, both AF as well as ANG, I've never, not once, taken a FALANT test. It's been all the Pseudoisochromatic color plate test, which doesn't matter if it's letters or numbers, because all you're trying to do is identify what's in the dots.
JJ