Nice story but it just doesn't "FLY". Vision requirements for pilots are quite more stringent than those for a driver's license.treadlightly wrote:When I was just out of high school I worked for a fairly quirky character who had a pilot's license. One day he got asked for ID at a store he had been to a zillion times. They had new rules that said everybody paying by check had to show a driver's license, so he pulled out his pilot's license.
The poor checker couldn't figure out what it was, so my boss told him it was a federal driver's license. That took a few minutes to figure out, then it dawned on the checker. "This is for airplanes!"
Yes, my boss said, it was the only license he could get. He had loss of vision problems, he explained, that kept him from being able to drive a car safely.
"But you drive airplanes?"
Yep, those airliners practically fly themselves. Pilots don't have to look outside when they fly. And on, and on...
It was hilarious.
BTW, We DO have to look outside!