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Old 10th Oct 2010, 20:27
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CAA advice on sunglasses including prescription lenses here

Guidance on using sunglasses | Medical | Safety Regulation

Interesting points in here are that you can have a pair of prescriptions sunglasses as your second pair. Also that they don't like you putting non-prescription sunglasses over your normal glasses. Not sure if this applies to clip-ons.

With the CAA advice in mind, I think the best answer is to use an optician with a 2 for 1 deal and get a set of normal specs and sunglasses made up to the same prescription. I had a simple grey tint put on mine and they work just fine, especially in those low sun landings in winter. The only downside with a high prescription is that my optician couldn't supply sunglasses lenses a with high refractive index, so they ended up being quite thick.

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