Bealzebub
I am an 18000hr pilot with 5 sons one of whom does want to become a commercial pilot and has had a CVD problem which drew me to this thread
OK Wager lost but I was correct in assuming that you were not CVD yourself,
perhaps if you were you might not be so keen to defend a system that prevents your own Son from following the professional career that you have enjoyed
You sound like you are happy with the way that CVD risk is assessed and managed in this system (but then why wouldn't you?)
Why you are so happy to tell your Son to forget it and do something else I cannot understand unless it is because you are a firm follower of the rules, whatever they are.
I hope that your Son doesn't quit from his ambitions and that he ignores your views on this subject. In time the testing requirement here will change to a more enlightened system, even if it doesn't change I would suggest that he follows the lead given by the first UK shuttle astronaut who's eyesight was not up to RAF standard but who ended up flying in space anyway ! Oh and I think his father was a pilot also