{"id":871,"date":"2009-01-18T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=871"},"modified":"2009-01-18T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T15:33:00","slug":"iaf-changes-rules-to-include-vision-corrected-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/01\/iaf-changes-rules-to-include-vision-corrected-candidates.html","title":{"rendered":"IAF changes rules to include vision-corrected candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >B<\/span>eginning this year, IAF has relaxed selection rules  after which candidates with poor vision acuity can fly helicopters and transport planes after undergoing corrective surgery like LASIK and Radial Keratotomy.<br \/>The only condition is that the vision-corrected candidates have to meet basic post-surgery requirements set up by the IAF. Earlier, the IAF refused candidates if they had undergone these procedures to improve vision.<br \/>&#8220;From this year onwards, we have relaxed the physical requirement regarding vision for all service officers in the graduate entry level&#8230;.&#8221; Lt-Gen Yogendra Singh, Director General, Armed Forces Medical Services and senior Colonel Commandant of the force, said.<br \/>The IAF&#8217;s condition comprises completion of one year of the vision-correction surgery at the time of application, post-surgery eyeball length of not more than 25.5 mm and cornea thickness of not less than 450 microns.<br \/>A candidate, after completing one year of having undergone LASIK surgery (for correcting myopia and hypermetropia) and meeting the other requirements, can be considered for flying a helicopter or a fixed-wing aircraft, says senior advisor (Opthalmology) at the Army Hospital Research and Referral, Colonel JKS Parihar. LASIK is a surgery for correcting and lessening the defect or damage to the eye.<br \/>This relaxation is applicable for &#8220;Pilots flying transport aircraft and helicopters and all officers in the technical field, Aeronautical Engineers, basic Air Staff, Non-Technical staff, Ground Duties Officers, Security officers and Meteorology officers and officers in the medical field of the IAF,&#8221; Air Marshal P Madhusoodanan, DGMS (AIR) said.<br \/>However, he made it clear that &#8220;the relaxation will not be applicable at the entry level at National Defence Academy.&#8221;<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">18\/01\/09 Agencies\/TimesNow.tv<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning this year, IAF has relaxed selection rules after which candidates with poor vision acuity can fly helicopters and transport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}