Landing into sun
Last night we had a spectacular sunset round our neck of the woods.
The last 45 minutes or so before sunset was quite an interesting time to attempt landing on our south westerly runway. The runway was barely visible until about half a mile from touchdown.
This got me thinking about this issue. They say no question is too dumb so here goes! What specfically causes the apparent reduction in visibility in this case? (I am, of course, aware that vis into sun is worse than down sun).
For students, other than a Go Around and request for an alternate runway what gems of advice has anyone got out there?
Thanks for any help.