Hi
I recently failed the class 1 at Gatwick as my myopia is just outside the initial limits which my optician said i was within!!
The doc at gatwick said I would pass the renewal limits for the class 1 and could do this by getting an FAA fully qualified i.e. commercial pilot in the US, and then come back to the UK and converting this to a JAA CPL/ATPL and then go get the medical no problem on renewal limits. However I'm not sure exactly at stage I go get the medical, was too annoyed to ask all the questions I should have asked.
I don't know the exact procedure and am working it out on another post i started. Search my postings by clicking on my username for the recent one I started "FAA to JAA/CAA conversion".
Hopefully this will help and let me know if find out any info.
Regards
Will