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Intraocular lens in a fighter aircraft pilot
A Loewenstein1, O Geyer, Y Biger
1Department of Ophthalmology, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel.
The British Journal of Ophthalmology
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
A pseudophakic pilot of the Israeli air force flying an F-15 (Eagle) aircraft was followed up for three years. He experienced about 100 flying hours, 5% of the time under high g stress. The intraocular lens did not dislocate and no complications were observed. It seems that flying high performance fighter aircraft is not contraindicated in pseudophakic pilots.