ComplexHiAv8r
Well-Known Member
OK, I have been delaying almost a year, but its Bifocal time for me.
Comments on flying with Bifocals? Sunglasses?
Thanks
Comments on flying with Bifocals? Sunglasses?
Thanks
Bifocals and Flying
- Thread starter ComplexHiAv8r
- Start date
MidlifeFlyer
Well-Known Member
All types of bifocals take a little time to get used to. I fly with progressives and find that the gradual transition from distance to near works best for me in the cockpit. After about the 3rd time, you'll stop noticing them altogether. Turned out to be a far better solution for me than separate reading glasses.
Also, after screwing around for years with glasses, reading glasses and sunglassed, I also paid the extra for tranisition lenses - the ones that get darker in the sun. Truthfully, a good pair of perscription sunglasses with high contrst lenses probably work better in the end, but one pair of glasses for flying is less of a pain than two or three.
Also, after screwing around for years with glasses, reading glasses and sunglassed, I also paid the extra for tranisition lenses - the ones that get darker in the sun. Truthfully, a good pair of perscription sunglasses with high contrst lenses probably work better in the end, but one pair of glasses for flying is less of a pain than two or three.
fholbert
Mod's - Please don't edit my posts!
No issues once you and your brain get used to them. Takes about two days.
When I got my first pair of bifocals I walked outside and the first thing I noticed was all the cars looked like they had been lowered. I walked though the parking lot and the woman waking towards me looked like she was 3' tall. Crap, I'm taking these back! As she got closer I took off my glasses, she was a midget.
Within 24 hours everything was back to normal size. We'll, except that woman.
bretthullrampage
Well-Known Member
popaviator
Well-Known Member
staplegun
Well-Known Member
I have progressives and they are great once you get used to them.
My problem is that my far-distant and close-in vision needs correction, yet my intermediate-vision is still 20/20. So I need distance correction to look outside and land the airplane and "readers" to see the approach plate, but I can't use either to see the instrument panel which is in the "20/20" distance for me.
Progressive bifocals solve this problem as there is a spot in the progression
which is 20/20 so I have 3 sets of vision...
It takes some getting used to but once you do they work great.
I also got a pair of sunglasses with the same lenses...
Kevin
Henri Pablo
Well-Known Member
... be patient. I thought I'll be brave and started using them the minute I got them in the afternoon. By evening, I thought I'll go nuts. The first few days when I'd get tired the transition bifocals were really contributing to my irritability.
It took me a really good while to get used to them. I think they suck to be completely honest, but they are the least evil option under the circumstances.
In the cockpit under IFR they work fine ( it was during an IFR flight at night one time that I noticed a problem: could not read the approach plate
, that's when I realized bifocals are needed ).
In VFR however, I still wonder how they affect scanning of the outside since only a small area is in focus :-(
It took me a really good while to get used to them. I think they suck to be completely honest, but they are the least evil option under the circumstances.
In the cockpit under IFR they work fine ( it was during an IFR flight at night one time that I noticed a problem: could not read the approach plate
, that's when I realized bifocals are needed ).In VFR however, I still wonder how they affect scanning of the outside since only a small area is in focus :-(