Hi folks,
Have just noticed this thread (I don't look in this forum as often as perhaps I should).
A quick visit to the opticians yesterday to the opticians confirmed my fears that my dream may have been killed off due to the old uncorrected visual acuity... whilst I am within the refractive error limits (-3D in one eye, -4D in another), have atigmatism (again within the limits, 1.25D for both eyes), eyes in "exceptional health" (optician's words) and have excellent corrected visual acuity of 6/5, my uncorrected visual acuity is very poor (optician quoted it as <6/20!) and this looks like a Class 1, possibly even a Class 2, may be scuppered.
Have sent an E-mail to the friendly folks at the CAA Med dept., will wait and see what they say with regards to the possibility of a restricted medical or not. However I fear that my ambitions of becoming an instructor may have been well and truly torpedoed!
Whatever the case, at least I can still fly, there's still the NPPL as a fall-back. Not all is lost.
Smithy wheres me bloody contact lenses then *squints at screen*