pt6a your right the fata exam can be done many times... my info was from the days of you had to wait 6 weeks before retest, which meant of course your 3 month fata expired after the 2nd attempt.
As for the medical, sorry it is a dark picture and will be until they publish the full criteria and bring it inline with the rest of the world. Yes I passed, in my mind it wasnt bad at all, I even wrote a post on here a while back about it, but time and time again I see people get booted out . Case in point, just this week a friend who has been here 3 years finally did his Initial class one, holds a JAA class 1, he failed for a squint !! Its within limits for the JAA world but not for the IAF/DGCA world... WTF !!!