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Hello. I want to start training for my CFI but 4 months ago when I went for my eyes to be checked the doctor said I need it some reading glasses to used as needed it I can see good but the really small print or letters I see then little blurry, can I still be a CFI.thanks 

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  1. Bryan on Nov 16, 2021

    14 CFR 61.23(3)(ii) says a person must hold at least a third-class medical certificate when exercising the privileges of a flight instructor certificate and acting as the pilot in command. So you need to talk to your AME. If you can get a third class medical, you can be a CFI.

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  2. John D Collins on Nov 17, 2021

    Here are the requirements for eye in the third class medical certificate. Undoubtedly if you need reading glasses just some of the time, your presbyopia is just beginning. You don’t need 20/20 uncorrected vision for near or far as the standard allows for correction to 20/40.

    § 67.303 Eye.

    Eye standards for a third-class airman medical certificate are:

    (a) Distant visual acuity of 20/40 or better in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses. If corrective lenses (spectacles or contact lenses) are necessary for 20/40 vision, the person may be eligible only on the condition that corrective lenses are worn while exercising the privileges of an airman certificate.

    (b) Near vision of 20/40 or better, Snellen equivalent, at 16 inches in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses.

    (c) Ability to perceive those colors necessary for the safe performance of airman duties.

    (d) No acute or chronic pathological condition of either eye or adnexa that interferes with the proper function of an eye, that may reasonably be expected to progress to that degree, or that may reasonably be expected to be aggravated by flying.

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