How to become a Military Pilot

Re: becoming a fighter pilot

Flaphead — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:18:42 GMT

The advancements in laser eye surgery have taken place faster than the military's rules update. I think that anyone would have a good chance for prior approval of the procedure. Frankly, if you vision is good it is good, if it is bad it is bad regardless of how it got that way.

Re: becoming a fighter pilot

carlbug — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:00:48 GMT

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Re: becoming a fighter pilot

raimius — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:03:18 GMT

NO! DO NOT GET LASIK OR PRK WITHOUT MILITARY APPROVAL!
Doing so may disqualify you from being a pilot in the USAF.

If you can pass a Class I flight physical, you can be medically qualified to be a pilot. Perfect vision is NOT required. You must be within certain limits and correctable (i.e. glasses or contacts) to 20/20.

Re: becoming a fighter pilot

suzienderson — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:00:52 GMT

If you want to bacome a pilot than you must have a very good knowledge of everything. you have to take some steps by yourself sometimes. but if you have a glasses then you can't be a fighter pilot because if you can't see the sentence or routs then how can you be a fighter pilot. but yes if you do the operation for removing your glasses and then you can read and see properly then you can be a fighter pilot.

Re: becoming a fighter pilot

hdblue — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:18:09 GMT

raimius:

That is not true. The USAF will grant some people waivers or pay for PRK eye surgery. It is more common at the academy than elsewhere, but it is possible.

Grades/brains ARE important.

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Re: becoming a fighter pilot

raimius — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:26:09 GMT

That is not true. The USAF will grant some people waivers or pay for PRK eye surgery. It is more common at the academy than elsewhere, but it is possible.

Grades/brains ARE important.

Re: becoming a fighter pilot

N.A.Gililland — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:30:58 GMT

yes if you were glasses you can not become a pilot at all not even if you have them fixed and they grades have to be realy good that i know of

Re:becoming a fighter pilot

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:50:00 GMT

*** Posted by Jack Armstrong ***
[Hi there, all my life i loved jet planes, and so i wanna become a fighter pilot. So my question is that can i become a pilot with not so good grades, like do you have to be real smart to become a fighter pilot, cause right now i'm a senior in high school, how about the math, do you need to be good at math? This is very important please respond to this message, and one more thing is that i wear glasses, will that effect me from being a pilot?]

If you are a High School Senior and you can't find the SHIFT key on your computer, and you use " like " in every sentence, you can forget about becoming a fighter pilot. There is a lot of competition for the privilege of entering the training program and I don't think you'll get by the first interview.

Re:becoming a fighter pilot

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Oct 2000 17:57:00 GMT

*** Posted by run ***
Hi Sid

I can only tell you how the Danish Airforce selects its pilots. We have one of the toughest selection programs because Denmark is a small country and can't afford to put people through the education who may or may not make it. It costs several million dollars to make an f16 pilot. If you are from US or other countries it is probably easier to get in.

They give you an IQ test, so I guess they do care about your intelligence. You have to be good in math and Denmark don't accept people who are allready wearing glasses. On top of this there are a lot of other tests you have to go through. This may be different in other countries.

Hope that helped.

John Raahauge (run)

[Hi there, all my life i loved jet planes, and so i wanna become a fighter pilot. So my question is that can i become a pilot with not so good grades, like do you have to be real smart to become a fighter pilot, cause right now i'm a senior in high school, how about the math, do you need to be good at math? This is very important please respond to this message, and one more thing is that i wear glasses, will that effect me from being a pilot?]

becoming a fighter pilot

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:20:00 GMT

*** Posted by Sid Nomani ***
Hi there, all my life i loved jet planes, and so i wanna become a fighter pilot. So my question is that can i become a pilot with not so good grades, like do you have to be real smart to become a fighter pilot, cause right now i'm a senior in high school, how about the math, do you need to be good at math? This is very important please respond to this message, and one more thing is that i wear glasses, will that effect me from being a pilot?