What Services Can Each Pilot Expect?

• A comprehensive pilot profile: a unique profile of visual capability that is linked to specific task performance.
  
  
• This tailored aviation profile may be used to support the pilot should their vision capabilities be challenged by aviation medical standards or in litigation cases. All communication, correspondence, and clinical data are held in strict confidence, and only shared by written approval of the pilot/patient.
  
  
• A careful assessment of the pilot's current aviation tasks including:
  
  

  Careful measurements of panel and control instruments as well as working distances for approach plates, sectional charts, or check lists.
  
  The expanded use of sophisticated avionics and CRT's create ever increasing visual demands for the pilot. Color, motion, and complexity of the displays may be compensated by optimal vision incorporated with effective scan strategies.
  
  These are some of the factors that go into the definition of each pilot's operational task profile:
  
  

• A thorough aviation-specific eye exam:
  
  

  traditional optical and ocular health measures.
  
  Aviation specific measures that may uniquely influence pilot safety and efficiency.
  
  

  • Factors such as glare recovery, blank field myopia, scan performance and the influence of speed of accommodation are incorporated in the pilot visual profile.

How does it all benefit the pilot?

The operational and visual profiles are combined in a manner that are directed at optimizing and extending optimal aviation performance and safety.

This is accomplished through prescription of appropriate eye ware, vision therapy and an educational partnership that guides the pilot through the expected changes in visual decrement that occur in the normal process of aging.

Finally, the pilot is included in a unique population of patients that may meet and share questions, ideas and experiences at regularly scheduled seminars that will be presented throughout the year by FlightSight.