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Sorry to repeat same question... but mine MAY be a li'l different.
Way back in '96, fresh outta university, I applied for Aircrew via DEO (yes, they had that way back when...). Did all the testing, CFAT, panel interview, medical, opto, yadda-yadda... was all enrolled, clearly recall the "signing of the dotted line", and was just a few weeks out from being shipped off to Borden for CAPSS etc.
BUT.... I get a phone call telling me "...Upon further review of your visual tests, we've concluded that you have a 0.5 diopter correction in one eye, and the max allowable for AirCrew is 0.25... you can still be a Navigator, though!" I was crushed...
I also felt screwed over, cuz I know for a fact I have incredible vision, thanks to Laser surgery (PRK), and clearly recall the Ophthamologist being very impressed with the old-school manual vision assessment, verbalizing my vision was 'good to go'.
-- Note: The auto-laser-refractor pre-test that the girl did before I saw Opthamologist was a different matter... the machine spit out numbers that made *no* sense, and gave the girl quite the puzzled look...
I guess they tried to rectify these 2 results and "decided" my eyes were sportin' a defect.
After being told I was No-Go for Pilot, I was given the option of staying on as Navigator, or I could gracefully bow out...
I bowed out.
Many months later, my older brother's friend who was a CF-18 instructor at Cold Lake at the time, advised me that my denial was likely a "BS Test", just to see how bad I really wanted it. At the time of my denial, it never occurred to me that my gov't would wanna play childish games like that, and I took the Aircrew denial as fact.
Always said if I was denied, I'd go get license myself, and I made good on that threat, immediately doing my Commercial Multi-IFR -- WITHOUT any glasses or contacts, thank you!
Years go by, I'm 38 now... Still hold my Science Degree, and just passed yet another Cat I Medical for Commercial Licence... again, NO GLASSES. I can fly with 400 passengers behind me, but gawd forbid no camo-green pallets allowed!
Considering re-applying, just to see what happens... Current Peace-Officer gig is lame... But they probably won't take me... I obviously don't have any security clearance or weapons training, either.
Anyone care to speculate? I'll keep you apprised.
Way back in '96, fresh outta university, I applied for Aircrew via DEO (yes, they had that way back when...). Did all the testing, CFAT, panel interview, medical, opto, yadda-yadda... was all enrolled, clearly recall the "signing of the dotted line", and was just a few weeks out from being shipped off to Borden for CAPSS etc.
BUT.... I get a phone call telling me "...Upon further review of your visual tests, we've concluded that you have a 0.5 diopter correction in one eye, and the max allowable for AirCrew is 0.25... you can still be a Navigator, though!" I was crushed...
I also felt screwed over, cuz I know for a fact I have incredible vision, thanks to Laser surgery (PRK), and clearly recall the Ophthamologist being very impressed with the old-school manual vision assessment, verbalizing my vision was 'good to go'.
-- Note: The auto-laser-refractor pre-test that the girl did before I saw Opthamologist was a different matter... the machine spit out numbers that made *no* sense, and gave the girl quite the puzzled look...
I guess they tried to rectify these 2 results and "decided" my eyes were sportin' a defect.
After being told I was No-Go for Pilot, I was given the option of staying on as Navigator, or I could gracefully bow out...
I bowed out.
Many months later, my older brother's friend who was a CF-18 instructor at Cold Lake at the time, advised me that my denial was likely a "BS Test", just to see how bad I really wanted it. At the time of my denial, it never occurred to me that my gov't would wanna play childish games like that, and I took the Aircrew denial as fact.
Always said if I was denied, I'd go get license myself, and I made good on that threat, immediately doing my Commercial Multi-IFR -- WITHOUT any glasses or contacts, thank you!
Years go by, I'm 38 now... Still hold my Science Degree, and just passed yet another Cat I Medical for Commercial Licence... again, NO GLASSES. I can fly with 400 passengers behind me, but gawd forbid no camo-green pallets allowed!
Considering re-applying, just to see what happens... Current Peace-Officer gig is lame... But they probably won't take me... I obviously don't have any security clearance or weapons training, either.
Anyone care to speculate? I'll keep you apprised.