I had the eye exam portion of the Army Flight Physical Class 1W/1A for
Warrant Officers today. To my surprise, I hadn't even scheduled an
appointment or I started a warrant officer application packet, but here
is what happened.

I went to our Troop Medical Clinic and inquired about eye exams that are
given to pilot candidates, front desk didn't know much so they sent me
to the post OD's room. I went there and explained the situation and the
assistant called the OD who is a captain in the Army. I explained my
symptoms and my concerns in getting to the flight school. They decided
to give me an exam right there without the necessary paperwork, so I
went ahead and sat in front of the first machine, which there was a
windmill looking image on an orange background, coming in and out of
focus. It did that for a while for the right eye and left eye and
captain said, you are good to go, you are within the limits with -.50
right and .-25 left. No astigmatism. I asked about if we could do
cycloplegic refraction. He said it wouldn't change this error very much
and dilating tends to make eyes move to positive state, he said it might
help me in my case. It was surprising to me that this state has not
changed since my first refraction eye exam 11 years ago. He jokingly
said "you don't get any taller anymore, do you? same sh.t..." Hope he is
right. I did the visual acuity next, first I was not able to read the
20/20 line in the AFVT machine so I started reading 20/30 line with my
right eye, but all of a sudden, they slowly started to come into focus
one by one.the lighting in the machine was lower and the 20/20 was
farther than I thought. They were not clear and sharp in focus but I was
able to guess. Out of 16 letters, 8 on each, I didn't miss any. I missed
2 out of 5 in my first try with the "good" eye and I told them I needed
to rest my eyes a little. Tried it again and one blink, it came all
clearly in focus. Near vision was a piece of cake. Then field of vision
was tested and I was able to catch all the lights blinking right and
left. Depth perception however was a bitch and didn't work right, I was
looking at these shapes where circles are supposed to jump out. Nope
nothing was happening. Assistant gave me a pair of glasses and showed me
a card with lines of three circles each, each one had circles jumping
way out. That was done, then color vision testing, only those 88s or
86s, or 89s in the brown patterns, I needed to look more carefully, they
looked really faint, I missed one and she said are you sure, looked
carefully "ah ok I see it now......" Then she did IOP test and my right
eye was 16 and left was 15. It is the air blowing machine when you are
looking into the green light. That was OK, too. Don't know what that
measured. Gotta be some sort of pressure.

So basically, I am happy that I am within limits for flight training and
I wanted to share it with you all already know about my situation. Eye
care and vision is one of my interest areas, especially vision required
for the military stuff. I like to read and learn about it. Thanks for
taking time answering my questions, via the newsgroup or emails, it
means a lot. I will hang around and participate more often.