Carrying glasses?

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:24:58 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford.net
wrote:

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

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


I'm sure that's right. I discoverd after all those years that's why
binoculars were difficult to get properly focussed. It was die to
astigmatism. I had not found any problem until the perspective was
change with the glasses. What amazes me it I wear the glasses all the
time but apart from a change of focus I don't see the perspective
change with glasses off or on.

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.


Yes I saw that demo on TV a number of years ago, amazing what the
brain can do.

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

I suspect if you wear glasses all the time you can't blame the glasses
- sorry :-)

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

Obviously, you would be stuck up there...

On 4 Sep 2006 16:57:42 -0700, "Andrew Sarangan"
wrote:

It is not true, but I carry one anyway

Very wise. I carry my old glasses in my fishing vest (looks silly, I
know, but it's a great way to get all the miscellaneous stuff on my
person). The prescription is far from current, but good enough to get
the plane on the ground.

If you'd have trouble landing the plane without corrective lenses,
then a backup is surely in order.

Cubdriver usenet AT danford.net wrote:
If you'd have trouble landing the plane without corrective lenses,
then a backup is surely in order.

No way *I'm* landing a plane without corrective lenses.

I wear contact lenses, and, until recently, didn't carry my glasses.
Then, a few weeks ago at the beach, I got something in my eyes (sand?
sweaty sunscreen?) that stung so badly I took out my lenses and let my
wife drive home. That's never happened to me, in many years of wearing
contacts, but one time was enough.

I always carry glasses in my flight bag now.

.... Alan

--
Alan Gerber
gerber AT panix DOT com

Emily wrote:
Someone told me a while ago that if you have a "must wear corrective
lenses" restriction on your medical and wear contacts, that you have to
carry a pair of regular glasses while flying. Is that true? And if so,
does anyone have a reference?

Untrue. Might not be a bad idea.

If HOWEVER, you need close distance correction, you will also have an
endorsement that says "must possess corrective lenses..." You can't
use monovision contacts either.

Back in the early '60s, if you needed glasses, you had to have a spare pair
with you. That got dropped about the same time that wearing contacts
required a waiver (mid 60s). THen it all got dropped.

Jim

Emily wrote:
Someone told me a while ago that if you have a "must wear corrective
lenses" restriction on your medical and wear contacts, that you have to
carry a pair of regular glasses while flying. Is that true? And if so,
does anyone have a reference?

I had a student that used monovision contacts for distance/near vision.
I'm not sure how but she managed to get an unrestricted medical that
allowed her to use them in flight. I guess I could have challenged it
but it didnt' seem to give her any problems and I figured if the ME
authorized it, it probably wasn't my place to second guess it. As CFIs
we tend to advocate for the students vs. the ME.

-Robert


Ron Natalie wrote:

If HOWEVER, you need close distance correction, you will also have an
endorsement that says "must possess corrective lenses..." You can't
use monovision contacts either.

On 2006-09-05, Robert M. Gary wrote:
I had a student that used monovision contacts for distance/near vision.
I'm not sure how but she managed to get an unrestricted medical that
allowed her to use them in flight.

At my first medical the AME gave me a vision test with my contacts in...
After he realized that, he just put down the 'corrective lenses' requirement.

--
Ben Jackson AD7GD

http://www.ben.com/

On 2006-09-04, Emily wrote:
Someone told me a while ago that if you have a "must wear corrective
lenses" restriction on your medical and wear contacts, that you have to
carry a pair of regular glasses while flying. Is that true?

I've never heard that, but I do carry a pair of glasses. I lost a contact
lens once in flight and had to finish the flight with one. For a few
years my vision benefit was such that it didn't make sense to get contact
lenses through insurance, so one year I got a spare pair specifically
for the plane. Of course that won't work if your eyes are changing...

--
Ben Jackson AD7GD

http://www.ben.com/

In article , rachelp2037
@yahoo.com says...
Someone told me a while ago that if you have a "must wear corrective
lenses" restriction on your medical and wear contacts, that you have to
carry a pair of regular glasses while flying. Is that true? And if so,
does anyone have a reference?

Yes, my New Zealand Class 2 Medical has on the back of it:

Restrictions Applicable:
001 Spectacles (distance vision) must be worn.
007 Spare spectacles must be readily available.

--
Duncan