What are the limitations in respect of eyesight?
The requirements for eyesight (as with the other medical requirements) are laid down by EUROCONTROL’s Medical Advisor but are certainly founded on internationally applied standards. Should you reach the final stage of selection, you will be subjected during the medical checks to a thorough eyesight examination by an ophthalmologist. This and other medical checks are in any case at regular annual routine intervals during an operational controller’s life. The examination will cover, among other things, distant and near visual acuity, field of vision, and the possible presence of any acute or chronic pathological condition of either or both eyes or their adnexa. You will have to show that you have a normal colour perception. Your visual acuity shall also be conforming to the following standard: the distant visual acuity, after correction if necessary, shall be 7/10 (6/9) or better in each eye separately. Where this standard of visual acuity can be obtained only with correcting lenses, you
