It's going to be a very expensive time for the insurers of pilot medicals. This will cost 100's of millions, I'm pretty sure these insurance companies won't stand by whilst CAsA pulls the medicals of competent medically fit individuals because of new research that is unfounded and unproven.
There are literally 1000's of CVD pilots piloting the globe.
In Emirates the CAD test is secondary to the ishihara plate test. The current CVD pilots in Emirates have been given a medical waiver on a grandfather right. Either there is a safety issue or not, you can not have safety and grandfather rights together?
In the USA, arguably the largest aviation regulator in the world, a more liberal view on CVD exists much like the last 25 years of CAsA in Australia. The US has 1000's of CVD aviators that add to the many millions of flight hours which have been accumulated globally. Not one accident attributable to CVD. Isn't that enough research to prove the theoretical research wrong?
The CAD test is just enough test to establish if an individual is CVD. I can't believe CAsA is taking such a strong line on a subject they just can't back with proven medical science, especially against a backdrop of a proven track record.
Frustrating