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Old 29th Aug 2020, 16:08
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Originally Posted by ohnutsiforgot
I am a one-eyed pilot, multiengine instrument rated, several thousand hours. I did have a fair amount of trouble with flare height until I developed an alternative method over a period of months...
In my late twenties, I was recently blind in my dominant eye due to a cataract when I was learning to hang glide. We were learning by gliding down a grass slope to a smooth sand beach and with no stereopsis my flares varied from dropping a good two metres to the ground to the occasion when I ran the crossbar into the sand without flaring.

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