Probably due to your avatar. 
Well I wouldn’t get into avatars with yours buddy!!!
BTW: In case anyone cares my vision has gotten worse than 20/40 so yeah there goes the first class medical. Right out the door.
Well you had the warning, all those people saying things about beating off making you go blind and what not. j/k
I think it’s a very flattering photo of the guy myself! I think he’s worthy of being displayed in the Primate House at the National Zoo! I hear he puts on a HILLARIOUS SHOW!
Even with your glasses it’s worse than 20/40?
BTW: In case anyone cares my vision has gotten worse than 20/40 so yeah there goes the first class medical. Right out the door.
Don’t give up because of glasses. I hold a first class and my vision with out correction is 20/300. I did have to stop flying for a living in the mid 1990’s when my eyes got so bad I couldn’t get a class II. They changed the requirements in, I THINK, 1994.
You may or may not get to go millitary, but then again. I could have gotten a pilots slot in the NY Guard unit based in KIAG. At least that’s what there pilots were telling me.
I don’t think an airline job is out of the question. There’ll be another hiring boom and you could be in luck.
Yeah
I think it’s nice that he put a picture of his MOTHER in his avatar.
I think it’s nice that he put a picture of his MOTHER in his avatar.
Worse than 20/40 With glasses huh? And I thought you liked me for my inner beauty, not just the percieved outer beauty! 
PS Momma’s proud of my looks. It’s almost as if we’re twins!
I can see stupidity with out glasses.
Some confusion here…
I have worse than 20/40 with out glasses but with glasses I have 20/20.
As we said months ago in your other post, as long as your vision is correctable (with your glasses) to 20/20 you’re fine! Without my contacts my vision is something like 20/200 but it’s correctable to 20/20 and I have a first class medical.
O I feel so stupid now…
I musta misunderstood the phrasing. What’s with the 20/40 then? So glasses or contacts right?
Minimum visual acuity WITHOUT correction!
Gotcha! So if it stays at 20/40 you don’t even have to wear glasses to correct it to 20/20?
Sorry, we’ve been around this block so many times with this rule that you’ve even got me confused!
1st Class Medical:
“Distant visual acuity of 20/20 or better in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses.”
“Near visual acuity of 20/40 or better in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses.”
Got it?
Yes.
You need to see better than 20/40. If you have 20/30 eyes alone, great, you’re fine. If you need glasses to help you get to 20/20, thats fine too, as long as they’re not so bad that you can’t even get to at least 20/40 with the glasses.
Ok I think I have it now just that if it does get worse than 20/40 WITH glasses, you can just get another prescription right?
sure
Ok I’m good now…
Thanks for all the info everyone!
while there wasnt any “strike” at Netjets, the union pilots WERE working without a contract for quite a while and some did picket. In the end the teamsters did very well and so did my brother. While I may be biased, HE is worth every penny they give him.