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When asked, ‘Can pilots wear glasses’ we really need to look into what the Class 1 Medical requirements say.
An Aviation Medical Doctor (AME) will assess your vision and eyesight during your first initial medical assessment. You must pass this initial medical check to obtain your Class One Medical Certificate.
Your eyesight will then be monitored throughout your career as a professional pilot during your annual medical renewals.
Your eyesight will deteriorate throughout your career with age. This is why these allowances are made. If not, you wouldn’t see any airline pilots above 50, most likely.
It must comment that it is usually much harder to achieve a Class One Medical than it is to maintain one.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) states the following regarding eyesight:
This will probably sound technical, so it’s worth going to an optician if you have any questions or concerns regarding your eyesight.
But hopefully, this helps answer the question of ‘Can pilots wear glasses?’
If you wear glasses or contact lenses, it is important to take your last optician’s report along to the examination.
An applicant may be assessed as fit with hypermetropia not exceeding +5.0 dioptres, myopia not exceeding -6.0 dioptres, astigmatism not exceeding 2.0 dioptres, and anisometropia not exceeding 2.0 dioptres, provided that optimal correction has been considered and no significant pathology is demonstrated.
Monocular visual acuities should be 6/6 or better.
Distance/Distant Vision:
Distant visual acuity, with or without correction, shall be 6/9 or better monocularly, and 6/6 or better binocularly.
And the following regarding color vision:
(a) Applicants shall be assessed as unfit, where they cannot demonstrate their ability to readily perceive the color that are necessary for the safe exercise of the privileges of the license.
(1) Applicants shall be subjected to the Ishihara test for the initial issue of a medical certificate. Applicants who pass that test may be assessed as fit.
And here is an extract taken from a table from the FAA governing body in America:
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