Cataracts are cloudy areas that develop within the eye lens. A healthy lens is clear like a camera's, and light has no problem passing through it to the retina at the back where images are processed. When you have a cataract, the light can't get through as easily and, as a result, you can't see as well. Cataracts often form slowly, and they don't cause symptoms like pain, redness, or tearing in the eye. Some stay small and don't affect your eyesight.
A composite flight plan is actually two flight plans-one VFR and one IFR. What makes it composite is that you will transition from one to the other at some specified point during your flight.
Secure Flight is an airline passenger pre-screening program, implemented from August 2009 by the United States Transportation Security Administration. Secure Flight matches passenger information against watch lists maintained by the federal government. The initial implementation phase of Secure Flight resulted in the complete transfer of responsibility for passenger watch list matching to TSA from aircraft operators whose flights operate within the United States. The second phase of Secure Fligh