Failed Class 1 to Fit Class 1 - Next steps?
Evening all,
Over a year ago now, my first post on my account, I failed my CAA initial class 1.
After spending around £2,000 and a year of my life visiting multiple specialists (one of them I even had to fly to Scotland), I have somehow managed to obtain the class 1 after initially failing on my eyesight and poor core stability [?] (still don't know what that was and got instantly cleared by a neurologist). It still doesn't feel real as my dreams of flying were almost completely obliterated and I had to live with that for a whole year.
I make this post to first say if you were in a similar place to me (not only regarding poor eyesight, in my case a lazy eye), keep trying until the bitter end - as someone on here said to me.
But I also come to ask now for myself what is next?
My plan for now was to get an F1 visa to the US and complete a full FAA ATPL, and extend visa to become a CFI for a year or two (build hours and earn some money back), then come back to the UK with ~1500 hours and do the license conversion. Luckily I do not think funding will be an issue as I have a good amount of money saved and got extremely lucky with a high paying job.
Any ideas, similar experiences, insights, etc are greatly appreciated. This is great news for me. I'd be happy to help anyone with anything I can regarding appeals, eyesight, etc as I have learned quite a lot in the past year in those regards.
-bakerin