Hi,
I went to Gatwick a few weeks back for my class one initial. My main concern was my eye sight as my right eye is -5.25 (the left is just in limit at -4.75). This is compounded by astigmatism in the right eye but not too badly, I think its only 0.25. The chap who did my eyes at Gatwick was remarkably laid back about the whole thing and just said “I think you’ll be ok with your eyes” and that was that. I’d asked to do the eye test first so if it was bad news I could skip the rest. In the end they got me on my blood pressure (see my thread: ‘Anxiety = High BP = Fail = More anxiety – anyway out of the loop?’ for detail) but my eyes were ok and with some luck my BP will be proven fine too in due course.
One thing about the whole event; don’t worry about it. Everyone there’s great, the setting is comfortable and infinitely better that anything you would ever experience in the NHS.
Good Luck,
QQ