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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 67.205 

medication or other treatment in-
volved, finds— 

(1) Makes the person unable to safely 

perform the duties or exercise the 
privileges of the airman certificate ap-
plied for or held; or 

(2) May reasonably be expected, for 

the maximum duration of the airman 
medical certificate applied for or held, 
to make the person unable to perform 
those duties or exercise those privi-
leges. 

§ 67.115

Discretionary issuance. 

A person who does not meet the pro-

visions of §§ 67.103 through 67.113 may 
apply for the discretionary issuance of 
a certificate under § 67.401. 

Subpart C—Second-Class Airman 

Medical Certificate 

§ 67.201

Eligibility. 

To be eligible for a second-class air-

man medical certificate, and to remain 
eligible for a second-class airman med-
ical certificate, a person must meet the 
requirements of this subpart. 

§ 67.203

Eye. 

Eye standards for a second-class air-

man medical certificate are: 

(a) Distant visual acuity of 20/20 or 

better in each eye separately, with or 
without corrective lenses. If corrective 
lenses (spectacles or contact lenses) 
are necessary for 20/20 vision, the per-
son may be eligible only on the condi-
tion 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 correc-
tive lenses. If age 50 or older, near vi-
sion of 20/40 or better, Snellen equiva-
lent, at both 16 inches and 32 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) Normal fields of vision. 
(e) No acute or chronic pathological 

condition of either eye or adnexa that 
interferes with the proper function of 
an eye, that may reasonably be ex-
pected to progress to that degree, or 

that may reasonably be expected to be 
aggravated by flying. 

(f) Bifoveal fixation and vergence- 

phoria relationship sufficient to pre-
vent a break in fusion under conditions 
that may reasonably be expected to 
occur in performing airman duties. 
Tests for the factors named in this 
paragraph are not required except for 
persons found to have more than 1 
prism diopter of hyperphoria, 6 prism 
diopters of esophoria, or 6 prism 
diopters of exophoria. If any of these 
values are exceeded, the Federal Air 
Surgeon may require the person to be 
examined by a qualified eye specialist 
to determine if there is bifoveal fixa-
tion and an adequate vergence-phoria 
relationship. However, if otherwise eli-
gible, the person is issued a medical 
certificate pending the results of the 
examination. 

§ 67.205

Ear, nose, throat, and equi-

librium. 

Ear, nose, throat, and equilibrium 

standards for a second-class airman 
medical certificate are: 

(a) The person shall demonstrate ac-

ceptable hearing by at least one of the 
following tests: 

(1) Demonstrate an ability to hear an 

average conversational voice in a quiet 
room, using both ears, at a distance of 
6 feet from the examiner, with the back 
turned to the examiner. 

(2) Demonstrate an acceptable under-

standing of speech as determined by 
audiometric speech discrimination 
testing to a score of at least 70 percent 
obtained in one ear or in a sound field 
environment. 

(3) Provide acceptable results of pure 

tone audiometric testing of unaided 
hearing acuity according to the fol-
lowing table of worst acceptable 
thresholds, using the calibration stand-
ards of the American National Stand-
ards Institute, 1969: 

Frequency (Hz) 

500 

Hz 

1000 

Hz 

2000 

Hz 

3000 

Hz 

Better ear (Db) .................................

35 

30 

30 

40 

Poorer ear (Db) ...............................

35 

50 

50 

60 

(b) No disease or condition of the 

middle or internal ear, nose, oral cav-
ity, pharynx, or larynx that— 

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