Sample Record for Search: Aerospace Research

Abstract: The Federal Air Surgeon requested continued investigation of visual disorders and vision corrective devices as to their relevance to the medical certification of airmen and controllers. To better understand the visual requirements of this work environment, an ergonomic study of the radar console was performed. Measurements from two eye height levels, representing the low female value (5th percentile) and the high mate value (95th percentile), to four primary components of the radar console were obtained. Accommodation, vergence, and vision demands were calculated. The accommodative and convergence demands of an en route radar console would not be expected to have a substantial clinical effect on vision for pre- and early-presbyopic controllers with normal phoria and fusional reserve capabilities. Version demands are substantial and may be visually stressful to the ATCS. Clinical ophthalmic considerations for correcting the vision at the radar console of these controllers, particularly presbyopic ATCSS, are reviewed.

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