I'm not so keen on progressive lenses. I had some made a few years back and
took them up for a flight. Not being very tall I have to stretch my neck to
see over the glare shield. Everything went fine until I got into the
landing flare. As the nose of the plane went up to flare, I had to tip my
head back to see straight ahead. In so doing I was now looking through the
bottom of the lenses.......the "reading/magnifying" portion, which caused
everything to look blurry and fuzzy on the runway. Needless to say my
landing was more of an arrival than a landing. Thankfully I didn't break
anything. I took the glasses and threw them in the trash can.
Garry Stout, N4220S
----- Original Message -----
From: "david miller" <loboloda@execulink.com>
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Flying and reading glasses?
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> I'll second this. It took me a while to get used to progressive lenses,
> but now I'm not aware that I'm wearing them.
> They are great for flying, driving, golfing or whatever.
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> Dave C-FBZI
> On 23-Oct-09, at 8:02 AM, Christoph Both wrote:
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>> Get 3 stage progressive lenses - they really work, close reading the
>> map, mid to read the instrument panel and far to see everything outside,
>> all in a consistent sharp transition!
>> Christoph Both
>> #223
>> Wolfville, Nova Scotia
>> Canada
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