Variation on...... cataracts and flying pattern...new question

[Jim Ivey]

Keith
 You are absolutely correct. Anything closer than 6 ft I remove them.They work for driving and flying and that's the way I have to use them.

Jim Ivey> 
> From: "Keith Black" <tkeithb at comcast.net>
> Date: 2005/06/19 Sun AM 02:26:32 EDT
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Subject: Re: Variation on...... cataracts and flying pattern...new question
> 
> Hey Jim, just don't trip over something walking out to the flight line. ;-)
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Ivey" <jivey61 at bellsouth.net>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Variation on...... cataracts and flying pattern...new question
> 
> 
> > Ken
> >  The first of this year I also went for a Dr's visit for updating
> prescription glasses. I got the exam and they ordered the lenses. They did
> not work because the exam did not reflect the way I need to see at a
> distance. The Dr couldn't understand that his machine was wrong. I brought
> the Dr to his front window and told him I wanted the see the small limbs on
> the tree about 150yds away. He then put his compensating lenses in front of
> my eyes until I picked out the best ones that I could see the distance
> with.Actually one eye is nearsighted and the other is farsighted. He was
> hesitant to and still didn't understand why his diagnosis was not correct.
> They made the lenses to this order and I can see the writing on the plane at
> 150 meters now. I then got a prescription for this measurement for my NYC
> sun glasses. I'm in business now and do not know what my eyes measure and
> don't care. I can see at the distance.>
> >
> > Jim Ivey
> > > From: Ken Blackwell <kblackw at adelphia.net>
> > > Date: 2005/06/18 Sat PM 09:30:57 EDT
> > > To: discussion at nsrca.org
> > > Subject: Variation on...... cataracts and flying pattern...new question
> > >
> > > Recently, I had my glasses updated, (Age 67, trifocals) and my medium
> > > distance and close up vision is 20-15....according to the Dr.'s eye
> > > chart. However, when I look off at a distance like flying, the glasses
> > > do not sharply focus. In fact, I can see better without them. My problem
> > > is that I wanted to get my sunglasses updated....but the prescription
> > > doesn't work for distance and in fact my old prescription works better
> > > at a distance than the new one. BUT the old prescription doesn't do an
> > > adequate job at short to medium distances.
> > >
> > > Has anyone ever heard of this problem...solution....and maybe an
> > > Internet med reference?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Ken Blackwell
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