Possible future pilot here, I'm getting out of the Marines in November and I want to use my GI bill for flight school. I'd love to be a commercial airline pilot. There's just a little problem...
So in 2007 I was hit in the eye with an airsoft bb on my eyelid of my left eye, my vision changed after that. I went through many prescriptions. But once my vision settled I could never get that eye back to 20/20 with correction. Nobody seemed to know why.
One year ago I looked into getting lasik and the doctor noticed that I had a cateract in my left eye. So I took this back to the military ophthalmologist, and she didint see a cataract. I told her it's very difficult to see and you may need to dilate my eye. At first she saw nothing, after looking harder, she evidentially saw it. I wanted to make sure it was recorded before my lasik. So I proceeded to get lasik and now I have 20/20 (maybe 20/15) in my right eye. And 20/30 (maybe 20/25) in my left. The lasik doctor told me that I could get cateract surgery, but it's not worth it since a trauma induced cateract won't get worse until I'm at the age that old people get cataract. And with my eyes combined I have 20/20 vision, I don't have any glare issues, night vision issues, nor does it affect my daily life.
Is it possible I could get a waiver for my vision? Or would I have to get surgery in order to peruse this career? (That's if the surgery would get me to 20/20)