Prevention of visual anxiety and proficiency problems in the senior air transport pilot
Diamond, S.; Leeds, M.F.
Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine 48(9): 877-881
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0095-6562 PMID: 907599 Document Number: 113158
Several actual cases were presented to show the problems encountered with flight deck vision in the middle-age presbyopic pilot both in the simulator and in flight. We have gained useful knowledge in the proper flight-deck needs and optical corrections for these pilots, which should be passed on to aviation examiners, eye specialists, and pilots themselves. This would relieve a great deal of unnecessary lost time and anxiety which results when the pilot has a correction unsuited for the cockpit and encounters extreme difficulty in simulator work and in actual flight conditions which he does not understand and which can become very frustrating and a source of anxiety because his career is at stake. This anxiety may lead to other functional ocular problems, is unnecessary, and can be prevented.