Hey all,
I've wondered for awhile how many other pilots on the board may have a 'monocular vision' impairment. This is a sort of random thought that crossed my mind this evening.
I was a very cross-eyed child growing up, wearing corrective lenses (for eye straitness) since age 2 up through middle school. Two eye surgeries at a young age have fixed most of my eye allignment issues. One eye still drifts off as I lose focus, but anyways... This caused be to grow up monocular-sighted.
Monocular visioned see'ers, with two good eyes, can operate the eyes independently. I only use or 'focus' out of my right eye, however I can mentally make an effort and switch my focus over to my left eye. Both eyes are 20/15 vision, I just don't use the left eye as I look at objects, only get a perspective from the right side. Peripherial vision is fine on both sides.
This has caused me to have ZERO depth preception (on an AME test). Walls are especially difficult as I walk into them often (kidding on myself). This wasn't an issue on my medical, however, it just had to be reviewed and accepted by a 'higher up' AME. My personal AME thought I may have a night restriction on my commercial license, but that wasn't so. I have never had an issue with depth while flying, and was told by different sources that I would do fine in an airplane, and a few that said I wasn't going to make a resonable pilot. (500 hrs later, I'm doing just fine).
A bit of a ramble, but anybody else have this impairment, and are depth-robbed because of it?
I've wondered for awhile how many other pilots on the board may have a 'monocular vision' impairment. This is a sort of random thought that crossed my mind this evening.
I was a very cross-eyed child growing up, wearing corrective lenses (for eye straitness) since age 2 up through middle school. Two eye surgeries at a young age have fixed most of my eye allignment issues. One eye still drifts off as I lose focus, but anyways... This caused be to grow up monocular-sighted.
Monocular visioned see'ers, with two good eyes, can operate the eyes independently. I only use or 'focus' out of my right eye, however I can mentally make an effort and switch my focus over to my left eye. Both eyes are 20/15 vision, I just don't use the left eye as I look at objects, only get a perspective from the right side. Peripherial vision is fine on both sides.
This has caused me to have ZERO depth preception (on an AME test). Walls are especially difficult as I walk into them often (kidding on myself). This wasn't an issue on my medical, however, it just had to be reviewed and accepted by a 'higher up' AME. My personal AME thought I may have a night restriction on my commercial license, but that wasn't so. I have never had an issue with depth while flying, and was told by different sources that I would do fine in an airplane, and a few that said I wasn't going to make a resonable pilot. (500 hrs later, I'm doing just fine).
A bit of a ramble, but anybody else have this impairment, and are depth-robbed because of it?