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Old 02-28-2012, 10:23 AM
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Hey Gang...I'm Getting my first pair of prescription sunglasses and there are many options including polarizing, coatings, mirror coatings, etc. Any suggestions from those who have gone before me? What's good and bad for flying? Thanks!!!
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Old 02-28-2012, 10:27 AM
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Might give these a look...
http://hazebuster.com/s/catalog/index.php?ref=vaf
They offer reading glasses.
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Old 02-28-2012, 10:28 AM
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If you have glass panels, will be using an ipad in the cockpit, or may use either sometime in the future, you will want to avoid polarized lenses. Depending on the screen orientation, you will either be able to see that particular screen just fine, or it'll be totally blacked out.
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Old 02-28-2012, 10:35 AM
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Hey Gang...I'm Getting my first pair of prescription sunglasses and there are many options including polarizing, coatings, mirror coatings, etc. Any suggestions from those who have gone before me? What's good and bad for flying? Thanks!!!
I know that you do not want polarized lens if you have LCD displays.

I never get any of the add ons. I had Rx bifocal sunglasses one year. Changed to bifocal "Transition" lens the following year. I love the "transition" lens best. I thought the sunglasses were too dark when I went inside. The "transition" lens are light inside and get dark outside. I wear Progressive Transition lens every day but like the bifocal Transition lens for flying formation. The bifocal has a lot better peripheral vision.
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Old 02-28-2012, 10:44 AM
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I have a pair of Zeiss Skylet Road (the medium Skylet tint), no coating, no polarisation, and I love them. Not the cheapest option, but great lenses.

Definitely avoid polarisation. Doesn't work well with LCDs, and also interferes with some plexiglas canopies. About the coating, my lenses have a stronger than standard curvature and cover almost my whole field of view, so there is little room for light to come in and cause reflections. I've never missed the coating on the sunglasses (but I always take the best possible coating on my clear lenses).
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Old 02-28-2012, 11:04 AM
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When it comes to optics, whether it's sunglasses, binocular, scopes, or camera lenses, one truth stands clear. You get what you pay for. People that are happy with $50 sunglasses have never owned $200 sunglasses. People that are happy with bushnell binoculars have never owned swarovskis, etc, etc.
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Old 02-28-2012, 12:12 PM
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People that are happy with $50 sunglasses have never owned $200 sunglasses.
Which is why I won't go back.

And I can assure you that after a brief explanation the optician doesn't give you a strange look anymore when you tell him that you don't care about how stylish the frame is, but that it needs to provide maximum field of view, be matt black against reflections and needs to stay put at -2g. Then you can proceed and throw most of his frames with large FOV on the floor (actually, better be nice and catch them) by trying them on and rapidly dropping your head down to inverted position.
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Old 02-28-2012, 12:34 PM
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Many of the premium prescription brands have special polarization and coatings especially for glass cockpit displays. Whenever I update my Maui Jims, I make sure to tell them that I'm a pilot and they choose the right options for me.

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Old 02-28-2012, 12:48 PM
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Thanks to all for the quick response! My optician wasn't familiar w/ aviation specific sunglasses, so he wasn't much help. He did suggest a mirror finish. Any opinions? I remember sun burning my nose w/ them in my motorcycle days. Thanks again!!!
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Old 02-28-2012, 12:53 PM
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Hey Gang...I'm Getting my first pair of prescription sunglasses and there are many options including polarizing, coatings, mirror coatings, etc. Any suggestions from those who have gone before me? What's good and bad for flying? Thanks!!!
Congrats. I find prescription sunglasses to be just about the most useful item I have EVER purchased. I bought my 1st pair about a decade ago and I'll never be without a pair again.

I personally would go for a UV coating, but that is it. I recently bought a pair of Ray-Ban Aviators and I am very happy with them.
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