Coping with Specs
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: London
Very useful thread - this. Once again Pprune scores over the magazines.
I also have reached the age where reading glasses are needed. I also had a pair of (very natty) tinted varifocals made up. I only wear these for flying or driving. I find them great but with one important caveats - they make distance judgement when taxiing VERY tricky. I now will not taxi with them on, having experienced an unfortunate case of self-inflicted hangar-rash. Apart from that I find them great in the air - making reading easier, instruments easier to read and vision outside fine.
I do wonder, now having read this thread, whether my roundout is affected glasses off and glasses on and I am going to try, carefully, some experiments to see what effect the glasse have in the circuit. Another intrepid airman will ride shotgun during this experiment, needless to say...
I also have reached the age where reading glasses are needed. I also had a pair of (very natty) tinted varifocals made up. I only wear these for flying or driving. I find them great but with one important caveats - they make distance judgement when taxiing VERY tricky. I now will not taxi with them on, having experienced an unfortunate case of self-inflicted hangar-rash. Apart from that I find them great in the air - making reading easier, instruments easier to read and vision outside fine.
I do wonder, now having read this thread, whether my roundout is affected glasses off and glasses on and I am going to try, carefully, some experiments to see what effect the glasse have in the circuit. Another intrepid airman will ride shotgun during this experiment, needless to say...
Official PPRuNe Chaplain
Joined: Apr 2001
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From: Witnesham, Suffolk
I've worn glasses since about 1950, and varifocals for a fair proportion of that. I'm delighted with them The critical bit with varifocals is to get them made up to suit what you do. There are a lot of "options", apparently - or so my optician tells me.
I fly with mine, and have no problems.
The only catch is: if I nod at you, I'm not agreeing: just getting you in focus.
I fly with mine, and have no problems.
The only catch is: if I nod at you, I'm not agreeing: just getting you in focus.
