Vision testing is it an area to be restested?

[Inverted Vantage]

Why are our vision tests based on arbitrary definitions for individuals such as pilots?

When you get your vision tested, what are you looking for?

I propose that vision tests for pilots should be based instead on what they would be most likely to be more adapted to seeing; a letter at 40,000 feet a mile away? Or a fast moving hawk at one mile below?

I question whether or not vision test standards apply to pilots, and whether or not some sort of "emergency" standards be set in place, due to the acute lack of "jobs" in America today, and the recent article in Pilot Training magazine, which said that the airlines are supposed to be starving for pilots very soon.

Also, as a side note; if everyone flew airplanes, everyone would be a pilot, and I believe the numbers may back me in saying that the more people involved in an activity, the more the net cost of said activity is reduced.

EDIT: Title change, "Vision testing; is it an area to be retested?" The edit title button did not appear when I clicked "edit post".

 

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