Eye Sight for Joining Air Force in India

[Sagar_Tayde]

My Dream is to join Air Force in India and I am preparing for this since many years. LASIK and PRK were the suggestion from the Indian doctors for -2.5 Myopia. The problem is that LASIK and PRK operated person is not allowed in Indian Air Force. Kindly Suggest me some other treatment for the same. And I even want to know that Is PRK detectable by the advanced machines?

[JohnHaganMD]

That is unfortunate as all the military branches of the USA allow pilots that have had refractive surgery and their vision is corrected to 20/20 (6/6 metric)  You don't have options as they want "uncorrected vision" and don't allow glasses or contact lens.   I have no idea how rigorous the eye exam is. It is often difficult to tell if someone has had PRK (surface laser) but LASIK is usually easy to see.  You might be able to sneak in with PRK  and then 'forgetting' you had it.

I suspect they would not allow an ICL (basically a contact lens inside the eye) The risks are much higher with this than PRK.