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  • aviator
    Administrator
    • Oct 2024
    • 2166

    Driver's LIcense Renewal Time...

    Have an appointment tomorrow at 10:30 at an office way down south, just to get my eyes tested and a new photograph, things which I had done a couple years ago when I switched my license to "Real ID" with the star on the corner. I hope my eyes can read line 5, my cataract surgery was 12 years ago.
    Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.
  • Cujet
    Member
    • Oct 2024
    • 49

    #2
    I have an upcoming appt. I wear contacts, and hope that's acceptable. My glasses are broken and I really don't want to spend hundreds of dollars replacing the glasses.

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    • 44044
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      Glad to see that you’re back Sir…
  • Solid Snake
    Forklift certified
    • Oct 2024
    • 389

    #3
    I renewed mine a few months ago. They didn't check my eyes, but I was wearing glasses at the time.

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    • GBob01
      Coonass Crusader
      • Oct 2024
      • 116

      #4
      Mines not due for renewal for a couple years, but if I get the job I'm going after right now, I'll have to go in and get this "real ID" since I'll have to be able to fly.

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      • 44044
        Slug
        • Oct 2024
        • 680

        #5
        I renewed mine last year and got the Real ID

        I changed my address to my office address

        and then got a Passport, just in case I ever

        needed one…

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        • aviator
          Administrator
          • Oct 2024
          • 2166

          #6
          Originally posted by Cujet
          I have an upcoming appt. I wear contacts, and hope that's acceptable. My glasses are broken and I really don't want to spend hundreds of dollars replacing the glasses.
          Hey Stranger, good to hear from you. In Flarda all you need is 20/40 vision. "Read Line 5 Please" PECFD learn that by memory/
          Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.

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          • Cujet
            Member
            • Oct 2024
            • 49

            #7
            Originally posted by aviator

            Hey Stranger, good to hear from you. In Flarda all you need is 20/40 vision. "Read Line 5 Please" PECFD learn that by memory/
            Got the "Real ID" license Tuesday. I used the glasses, by crimping on brass tubing to hold the arms on. Worked well enough to pass the test, although it was not FECFD. Now they have my digital faceprint in ultra high resolution by Safran's SAFR facial recognition platform in 8K resolution. Hell, the camera can see the parasites on my eyelashes, it's that sharp. It also takes 5 images including one with a flash. This gives them unprecedented ability to find 'ya anywhere with any camera or online image.

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            • aviator
              Administrator
              • Oct 2024
              • 2166

              #8
              So you are now real Id'ed. You can't hide anymore.
              Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.

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              • RedOak
                Member
                • Oct 2024
                • 59

                #9
                I renewed my drivers license last year with the real ID. Then they ask if I wanted the license for four years or eight. Well, eight of course. I didn't know that was an option.

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                • Klauss
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2024
                  • 220

                  #10
                  Not the same but my oldest just got his temps.

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                  • Solid Snake
                    Forklift certified
                    • Oct 2024
                    • 389

                    #11
                    Originally posted by aviator
                    So you are now real Id'ed. You can't hide anymore.
                    Meh, I'm on so many lists by now. If you're not on a list, you're doing it wrong. Being in the military in the late 90s, they have my DNA. In high school, I went to Walden Books (or maybe B. Dalton Books ?) and had them order me a copy of "Mein Kamph", another list.

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                    • Pogo
                      Mystic Knight of the sea
                      • Oct 2024
                      • 620

                      #12
                      Originally posted by aviator
                      Have an appointment tomorrow at 10:30 at an office way down south, just to get my eyes tested and a new photograph, things which I had done a couple years ago when I switched my license to "Real ID" with the star on the corner. I hope my eyes can read line 5, my cataract surgery was 12 years ago.
                      You should go back to eye surgeon. After cataract surgery a cloudy film covers rhe lens. The procedure is called YAG laser capsulotomy.
                      We have met the enemy and he is us.

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                      • 4thIDvet
                        Slug
                        • Oct 2024
                        • 1665

                        #13
                        Originally posted by aviator
                        Have an appointment tomorrow at 10:30 at an office way down south, just to get my eyes tested and a new photograph, things which I had done a couple years ago when I switched my license to "Real ID" with the star on the corner. I hope my eyes can read line 5, my cataract surgery was 12 years ago.
                        Fred make sure you bring your military DD-214, V.A. med card something proving you are a vet. They will stamp 'veteran' on your new license. Lots of places giving discounts to vets and they don't even have it advertised as such. Yesterday at lunch with my Nam buddy and a 10% discount shows up on the bill. We both had Nam vet hats on. Auto parts store same 10% off and I never asked for it.
                        Lowe's kind of stopped the vets discount but if you tell them your a vet at the register and show your drive. license with 'veteran' stamped on it they will give you 10% off.

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                        • aviator
                          Administrator
                          • Oct 2024
                          • 2166

                          #14
                          Originally posted by Pogo

                          You should go back to eye surgeon. After cataract surgery a cloudy film covers rhe lens. The procedure is called YAG laser capsulotomy.
                          I was told, but my problem is astigmatism and may be a bit of the cloudiness. I remember my mother had it done, they just shoot it with a laser and clean it up.
                          Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.

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                          • 10-32
                            Senior Member
                            • Oct 2024
                            • 415

                            #15
                            I just renewed in August. Written exam on a computer and vision test. I failed the M classification exam. Haven't had to take that exam since the original time and didn't study. Rode motorcycles for over 40 years and somehow never died...lol.

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