Carrying glasses?

BTIZ wrote:
You best put your glasses on and go do some night landing practice with
them.

Don't know anyone around here to sit in the other seat in case I can't
land again.

Emily wrote:
BTIZ wrote:

You best put your glasses on and go do some night landing practice
with them.


Don't know anyone around here to sit in the other seat in case I can't
land again.
Hire an instructor. I used to have really bad vision (Lasik, ALL the
complications you read about, would do it again) and if I didn't have
some kind of correction I wouldn't have made the field. My AME, after
my exam, asked if I carried an extra pair of glasses (YES) suggested I
might want to carry 2 pairs. I think the idea of me in the air without
correction scared the willies out of him.

Margy

"Emily" wrote in message
. ..
Don't know anyone around here to sit in the other seat in case I can't
land again.

Well, if you're in the Houston area, give me a shout...

I learned that it's even harder for me to land while wearing glasses.

I land with glasses all the time. I'd find it hard to land without
them. It's probably worth practicing.

Jose
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Jose wrote:
I learned that it's even harder for me to land while wearing glasses.

I land with glasses all the time. I'd find it hard to land without
them. It's probably worth practicing.

Jose

How strong are yours? Mine are strong enough that my vision is very
distorted with large lenses, so I have them cut pretty small...problem
then is that my peripheral vision is non-existent. We're talking about
-7.5 in both eyes....I even have trouble driving in them.

Don't know anyone around here to sit in the other seat in case I can't land again.

No CFIs at all in your area?

We're talking about -7.5 in both eyes.

You beat me. I'm two thirds of that. However I wear full size glasses
- I can't stand little ones - can't see out the sides. Let them be
thick, especially in the cockpit (where nobody cares, as long as they
can walk away from the airplane after landing!)

Jose
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Emily wrote:
Jose wrote:

I learned that it's even harder for me to land while wearing glasses.


I land with glasses all the time. I'd find it hard to land without
them. It's probably worth practicing.

Jose


How strong are yours? Mine are strong enough that my vision is very
distorted with large lenses, so I have them cut pretty small...problem
then is that my peripheral vision is non-existent. We're talking about
-7.5 in both eyes....I even have trouble driving in them.
My vision was bad (20/400) but my lenses were ground very flat and that
seemed to help with the distorsion problem. It made it awful when the
tried to grind lenses in the standard way.

Margy

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JIm



"Emily" wrote in message
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Guess I don't know what I'd do if I lost a contact.

On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:01:51 -0500, Emily
wrote:

Andrew Sarangan wrote:
It is not true, but I carry one anyway. Contact lenses can dry out or a
foreign object can get stuck. If something like that happens, I will
take the lenses out, throw it away and wear the regular glasses. It
would be very difficult to attempt to wet the lens and put it back into
the eye while flying.

I learned that it's even harder for me to land while wearing glasses.
Tried one night, and my depth perception was so bad I had to have my
friend land. I got to maybe fifty feet and simply couldn't judge height
anymore and was honestly didn't think I could land.

Guess I don't know what I'd do if I lost a contact.

As for judging height I know exactly what you mean.
I'd started my PPL before getting the medical and had been flying
about a week and just started to get the landings right (ish..!).
Went for the medical found out after 48 years I had astigmatism and
required glasses. That absolutely ruined my landings. I first tried to
flare about 50ft and pages that have straight sides were not parallel.
When walking I felt as though I'd lost about 6 inches in height, all
very strange. What a shambles for a few days. After that I got used to
them.

Now I can put the glasses on or off and don't notice any distortion,
unless I'm specifically looking and then it's minimal. I don't notice
much change in vertical perspective either so I think if you persist
the brain will accommodate the changes given a little time.

My FAA certificate says:
"Must wear corrective lenses"

My UK CAA licence says:
"Must wear corrective lenses and carry a spare set of spectacles"

The only comment I would make is if you wear varifocals ensure your
glasses are set so you can read the map, instrument panel and distance
without tilting your head too much.

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:08:31 +0100, wrote:

pages that have straight sides were not parallel.

Interesting. The glasses presumably were correcting for a problem that
your mind had already corrected for.

I read long ago that if you wear lenses that invert the world, after a
few days it will turn right-side-up. Then, when you take the lenses
off, the world appears upside-down.

I surely had a lot of trouble learning to land the Cub. Could it have
been the glasses?