To become an airline pilot you need to have good eyesight. Especially, if you are just applying to a flight school. So many pilots are concerned about their eyesight.

At the fighter pilot training school in Colerado the future "top gun" pilopts must have perfect eyesight in order to be accepted. However, after a year many of them have to drop out because they become narsighted. Here we are talking about 18 or 19 year old men. The first year of flight school you have to go through a lot of theoretial learning and not much flying. Extended reading and close work often lead to near sight which may be a career ending problem.

A younf man in Melbourne came to my workshop with the intention to improve his eyesight so he could become a pilot. After the workshop he sent me this email.

wow , wow ……………. , I’m sitting here typing these lines completely with out my glasses ……. , I can feel  that I need energy , so I do the exercise …….. , and keep working on my progress ,,,,,, !

 I’m so over the moon I just like to pass my regards once more on to Leo

F A N T A S T I C

 many thanks

Kindest regards,

Peter Staebner

A few months later this email came in my in box

You may remember me I\'m the \" Going to be commercial Pilot in Melbourne \" , was at your course Oct 2008 , finished all my theorie courses , did ( passed ) my Instrument rating and in another 4 - 5 weeks I go for my commercial flight test , so things are moving ..... , now the best news I went to the \" Class One Medical examination \" this initial one is the hard one to pass , all is ok , and I got it in writing that I don\'t need glasses for flying and or map reading at night .... , they put however some drops in my eyes and noted that I\'m a bit long sighted but not to that degree that I require glasses , so I keep doing the excercise .... , not yet at the candle light stage but I\'m getting there ...

many thanks again for the eye opneing experience , please feel free to publish the above and best reagrds to Monika Cruz

Best regards

Peter Staebner

Vision training is a very effective way of sharpening your vision. It is especially effective if you have just a few diopters of near sight. Pilots and anyone else who wants to maintain good eyesight can do so by simple vision training exercises.

Fighter pilots are subject to tremendous G-forces when they dive so Lasik surgery is not an option. Various airliens have diffrent rules about what they allow. If you have worn contact lenses on a 10 hour flight you know how uncomffortable it can be. Imagine whe you have to do this for a living.

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