Originally Posted by
Morris542
Currently I wear my ski-glasses whilst flying and they are quite "thick". The noice levels do increase when I wear them but I only notice the difference when I either put them on or remove them in flight. I do need to get a thinner pair of sunnies though...
What like this? Might be a bit over the top in the average cessna...
The helmet I used to wear when I worked for the RAF had clear and dark flip-down visors, and the fittings could be swapped around so that we could wear it with either an oxygen mask or a boom mike - so worked just as well in both a Bulldog and a Hawk. No reason you couldn't wear something like that in a Cessna if you got an adapter for the different intercom system.
Overkill perhaps, but in the safe sense.
But no, I don't think I'm about to start doing this myself - headsets seem to work fine for most light aeroplane flying.
G