Well, I do not beleive that you failed for just one letter. Maybe the looked at the whole picture.
I really don't think that you failed for just one letter. I beleive that many of us have said the wrong letter sometimes.
Mate I am greatful for your reply, If only the CAA would speak to me as you did!!
Yes I am young, that part is true. May I also add I am of asian origine as this may be of interest.
There is more to the story perheps you should hear. On my VERY FIRST visit to the CAA for the C1, I was failed on the basis of having, i quote 'SUBSTANDARD VISION ACUITY ON RIGHT EYE' as it was stated on the denial form and letter from them ...On that letter written by the medical officer I allegedly was only able to read the 6/18 line! This was absolutely shocking to me as I had taken an eye test before I booked the Class 1, and my vision on right eye then was 6/9 NOT 6/18. Everything else was fine with my body, otherwise they would have stated this on the denial form.
[may I add that some of the comments passed by the senior medical officer present there at the end of the test, when explaining why I am being failed, were totally inapropriate and threw grave concern]
Also I would go every week to a optrician and then send in the evidence again.
THEN, I DID EXACTLY what you said.....I went and got loads of eye tests done which proved my vision is infact, on right eye 6/9. I took one of those eye tests at Harley Street (IT COST ME LOADS, but hell i thought if the report from there could prove my case, then be it, its worth it)......On this one: much to my suprise my vision on right eye was stated by the optometrist to be 6/7.5
All in all I had aquired four eye reports/prescriptions, THREE of which stated 6/9, one from Harley Street clinic 6/7.5....I called the CAA up explaining my situation, they told me to send the reports i had gethered to them. With a letter, I sent them all off to the CAA......
I had a reply asking me to come in again for a test of my visual acuity. I did. I had expected a specialist eye consultant to check me, as many ppruners have told me here they were tested by an eye consultant the 2nd time round...Much to my suprise the same senior medical officer who I met the first time round was to be testing my vision acuity. They eye test It was done in the most stringent of conditions by the senior medical officer. My eyes were covered the 6/9 line was unveiled and I was asked to read them all. I thought you read from the bigger letters so that your eyes adjust? Is that not how a usual eye test is done?
Was it that the [senior medical officer] prepared the most stringent of conditions for me so that he can ultimately fail me therefore not grant me a C1?
At the heat of the moment, yes...I said the 'c' was an 'o'. At the end, after a discussion or rather an explanation by him that lasted 10 whole minutes, the content of which culminated around how I wont be able to train in the UK and I should go the FAA route, i finally left disappointed, yet determined.
Maybe your young and you already have strong prescription already and if you are a borderline case maybe they are a bit stringent then.
Yes I am young...and no, my prescriptions are not strong at all.
+1.25D Spherical, 0.25D Cylindrical RIGHT EYE
No refractive Correction whatsoever and 0.25D Cylindrical for LEFT EYE
[From Specsavers eye test]
That is way above the CAA/JAA requirement of 5.0D of correction.