Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bohnker, B
• Anzalone, F
• Mittelman, M
• Markovitis, A

Titel

Primary flight training performance of student naval aviators with vision waivers

Ist Teil von

• Aviation, space, and environmental medicine, 1991-02, Vol.62 (2), p.162

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

1991

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Performance was studied for student naval aviators with waivers for defective uncorrected distance visual acuity who underwent primary flight training at NAS Whiting Field, FL, for fiscal year 1987 (cases = 45). Outcome variables were completion rate, primary flight training grades and flight hours. Controls for completion rate were all other students during that period (N = 1443). For training grades and hours, controls were selected who completed the same training squadron within 1 month of the case. Two controls were selected who progressed to the jet pipeline, with two additional controls selected who progressed to the same pipeline as the cases, either maritime/patrol or helicopter (controls = 180). Results demonstrated the cases were significantly more likely to complete training (p = 0.029), but not significantly different in primary flight grades or hours. These results suggest student naval aviators on vision waivers were competitive with their contemporaries.