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eyesight testing
Posted: Fri 02 Jan, 2004 9:50 pm
by porterjk
Hiya all, hope some-one out there can help, I've just done my tests and awaiting a date for medical, but my eye-sight sucks, does anyone know what the minimum standard is?? I don't wanna end up looking like
!! Thanks, Jessica
Posted: Sat 03 Jan, 2004 11:10 pm
by SeaCat
From what I can remember as long as you do not have a forum of colour blindness, you just have to wear glasses. Unless its changed?
Posted: Tue 27 Jan, 2004 3:13 pm
by porterjk
Thanks, I passed anyway, god knows how so I guess it's not changed.
Just awaiting clearance now......
Posted: Sat 31 Jan, 2004 11:09 pm
by HywelThomas
are contact lenses ok or not?
Posted: Sun 01 Feb, 2004 12:39 am
by Sticky Blue
If you fail the eyesight test you don't get in. If you choose to wear contact lenses that should be upto you. I know guys in the band who wear them but our eyesight standaeds are different to the GD side of things.
Posted: Sun 01 Feb, 2004 2:50 am
by CrouchmasterT
Ive got my medical in a weeks time and it says if u wear glasses u gota take em wiv u and a prescription but ucant wear contacts for at least ten days befoe the medical
Posted: Wed 11 Feb, 2004 2:59 pm
by porterjk
I was told not to wear my contacts for just 2 days prior to test. wore my glasses in test and the doc didn't test without as I told him I was a blind little bat. Still passed for a tiff though.
Posted: Fri 13 Feb, 2004 12:33 am
by pomplemous
See when clever grl here got a pair of glasses? I had never had an eye test before and she said - read the letters on the wall. I askd, what, even if I screw up my eyes? she said, whatever. So I did and I got new glasses which I discovered were the same strength as my eyes were already - so I still had to screw up my eyes! dimmy! so eventually I dismantled them to retrieve the screws to fix my clarinet.
and I have never bothered with glasses since - but I can see fine!
Posted: Fri 13 Feb, 2004 12:35 am
by pomplemous
*bump crash*
Posted: Sun 15 Feb, 2004 1:41 pm
by Tab
Posted: Fri 20 Feb, 2004 7:02 pm
by Ex-URNU-Student
Do you speccys have to take your glasses off for the swimming pool tests? How do you see your way round without them? Isnt everything a big blur?
Posted: Fri 20 Feb, 2004 7:25 pm
by liverpoolirish
Contacts are okay.
There is a minimum uncorrected vision, but it's pretty bad ISTR. The right eye has a higher requirement (rifle shooting eye, I don't understand why, I shoot with the glasses on)
Yes, I took them off for the military swim test.
Bryn
