By: Randall Wilhite

Randall Wilhite — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:20:08 +0000

Here in the US, there’s no requirement not to wear them (Really, the FAA hasn’t legislated them. Yet.), but I just don’t wear them because my plane has an acrylic windshield and seems to make dark stripes. I just keep a pair of non-polarized (bifocals) in my plane and switch them.

By: sean marshall

sean marshall — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:26:28 +0000

Hey Steve, I know you are always open to safety comments, so here’s mine. I thought I heard you say you had polarized sunglasses on this flight. So here are 2 reasons why you don’t want polarized sunglasses. If you have head on traffic approaching, you are closing at 3 miles per minute or more. Generally you can’t see that head on traffic until they are within a mile, giving you seconds to react. So that flash of sun reflecting off their windshield at 3 miles can save you. Your polarized glasses filter that glare out, you don’t see the flash.
Secondly from my sailing days I learned polarized glasses make liquid crystal displays harder to see, so for glass cockpits many of the displays will be close to invisible.

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