Sunglasses for soaring

In article . com, wrote:
I have heard from time-to-time that Sun Tiger sunglasses work well for
soaring. Since I fly within 30 miles of the 1/10th busiest airport in
the world, anything that will increase my chances of seeing another
aircraft is something I want to take advantage of. It also turns out
that Sun Tigers are local, and not particularly expensive.
Opinions either pro or con are welcomed.
Thanks,
Jim


My eyeglasses for soaring have Zeiss Skylet Fun glass.
They have a somewhat different spectral transmission to normal sunglasses,
designed by the German soaring pilot and professor for electro optics Obermeier,
see webpage
zeiss.de/4125680f0053a38d/Contents-Frame/59dab48462214477c1256ac70023f799
I use them also for car driving because the dynamic range is excellent. While
driving trough a tunnel, I don't need to take them of.
It would be interesting to compare the spectral transmission with other
recommended sunglasses.

(Peter Nyffeler) wrote:

In article . com, wrote:
I have heard from time-to-time that Sun Tiger sunglasses work well for
soaring. Since I fly within 30 miles of the 1/10th busiest airport in
the world, anything that will increase my chances of seeing another
aircraft is something I want to take advantage of. It also turns out
that Sun Tigers are local, and not particularly expensive.
Opinions either pro or con are welcomed.
Thanks,
Jim


I've been using Suntigers for at least 10 years now. For me they work
great. In spite of blue being black, color distorsion never got in my
way. It is amazing how well the brain compensates. I wear bifocals.
Suntiger just makes them to my prescription (I did send them a frame
and a drawing where to put the split). I also have nothing but
positive things to say about how they deal with customers.

Cheers,
Henryk Birecki

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(Peter Nyffeler) wrote:

In article . com, wrote:
I have heard from time-to-time that Sun Tiger sunglasses work well for
soaring. Since I fly within 30 miles of the 1/10th busiest airport in
the world, anything that will increase my chances of seeing another
aircraft is something I want to take advantage of. It also turns out
that Sun Tigers are local, and not particularly expensive.
Opinions either pro or con are welcomed.
Thanks,
Jim


I've been using Suntigers for at least 10 years now. For me they work
great. In spite of blue being black, color distorsion never got in my
way. It is amazing how well the brain compensates. I wear bifocals.
Suntiger just makes them to my prescription (I did send them a frame
and a drawing where to put the split). I also have nothing but
positive things to say about how they deal with customers.

Cheers,
Henryk Birecki



Interesting, Henryk,



My experience was not so good. I bought a pair a couple of years ago.
Used them very little. Recently they broke, obviously from a defective
solder joint. I contacted them and they refused to do anything except
repair or replace them for the cost of new ones.



I am not satisfied.



Larry

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(Peter Nyffeler) wrote:

In article . com, wrote:
I have heard from time-to-time that Sun Tiger sunglasses work well for
soaring. Since I fly within 30 miles of the 1/10th busiest airport in
the world, anything that will increase my chances of seeing another
aircraft is something I want to take advantage of. It also turns out
that Sun Tigers are local, and not particularly expensive.
Opinions either pro or con are welcomed.
Thanks,
Jim


I've been using Suntigers for at least 10 years now. For me they work
great. In spite of blue being black, color distorsion never got in my
way. It is amazing how well the brain compensates. I wear bifocals.
Suntiger just makes them to my prescription (I did send them a frame
and a drawing where to put the split). I also have nothing but
positive things to say about how they deal with customers.

Cheers,
Henryk Birecki



Interesting, Henryk,



My experience was not so good. I bought a pair a couple of years ago.
Used them very little. Recently they broke, obviously from a defective
solder joint. I contacted them and they refused to do anything except
repair or replace them for the cost of new ones.



I am not satisfied.



Larry


When I got my first pair of glasses from Suntiger they had some
serious internal problems due to employee caused fraud. I did not hear
from them for a while after placing order, and could not find them
when I tried. Let's say I was not happy about that. At this point I do
not remember details, but after a while they found me. Explained what
happened and provided me with glasses. Since then I had no problems
what so ever either with quality or service.

Cheers,
Henryk

On Sep 17, 7:59 am, Henryk Birecki wrote:
(Peter Nyffeler) wrote:
In article . com, wrote:
I have heard from time-to-time that Sun Tiger sunglasses work well for
soaring. Since I fly within 30 miles of the 1/10th busiest airport in
the world, anything that will increase my chances of seeing another
aircraft is something I want to take advantage of. It also turns out
that Sun Tigers are local, and not particularly expensive.
Opinions either pro or con are welcomed.
Thanks,
Jim

I've been using Suntigers for at least 10 years now. For me they work
great. In spite of blue being black, color distorsion never got in my
way. It is amazing how well the brain compensates. I wear bifocals.
Suntiger just makes them to my prescription (I did send them a frame
and a drawing where to put the split). I also have nothing but
positive things to say about how they deal with customers.

Cheers,
Henryk Birecki

There are couple of types on their web site http://www.suntiger.com/,
with and without polarization and anti reflecting coating. Which one
is most suitabe?

Ramy

Ramy wrote:

On Sep 17, 7:59 am, Henryk Birecki wrote:
(Peter Nyffeler) wrote:
In article . com, wrote:
I have heard from time-to-time that Sun Tiger sunglasses work well for
soaring. Since I fly within 30 miles of the 1/10th busiest airport in
the world, anything that will increase my chances of seeing another
aircraft is something I want to take advantage of. It also turns out
that Sun Tigers are local, and not particularly expensive.
Opinions either pro or con are welcomed.
Thanks,
Jim

I've been using Suntigers for at least 10 years now. For me they work
great. In spite of blue being black, color distorsion never got in my
way. It is amazing how well the brain compensates. I wear bifocals.
Suntiger just makes them to my prescription (I did send them a frame
and a drawing where to put the split). I also have nothing but
positive things to say about how they deal with customers.

Cheers,
Henryk Birecki

There are couple of types on their web site http://www.suntiger.com/,
with and without polarization and anti reflecting coating. Which one
is most suitabe?

Ramy

Ones I am using are not polarized. Personally (and others will
disagree) I do not like polarized glasses in cockpit. Too many
artifacts with displays and even canopy.

Cheers,
Henryk Birecki

In article , (Peter Nyffeler) wrote:
In article . com,
wrote:
I have heard from time-to-time that Sun Tiger sunglasses work well for
soaring. Since I fly within 30 miles of the 1/10th busiest airport in
the world, anything that will increase my chances of seeing another
aircraft is something I want to take advantage of. It also turns out
that Sun Tigers are local, and not particularly expensive.
Opinions either pro or con are welcomed.
Thanks,
Jim


My eyeglasses for soaring have Zeiss Skylet Fun glass.
They have a somewhat different spectral transmission to normal sunglasses,
designed by the German soaring pilot and professor for electro optics
Obermeier,
see webpage
zeiss.de/4125680f0053a38d/Contents-Frame/59dab48462214477c1256ac70023f799

Put www. in front of zeiss to see the page.

Has anyone transmission spectra of the other sunglasses discussed here?

Peter Nyffeler
Y7 HB-1689

The correct clickable link for Zeiss Skylet lenses is;

http://www.zeiss.de/4125680f0053a38d...256ac70023f799

Peter Nyffeler wrote:
Has anyone transmission spectra of the other sunglasses discussed here?

Peter Nyffeler
Y7 HB-1689

http://www.revo.com/

A rather annoying web page (stupid animated text) but if you choose the
"technology" button, it will describe how you can actually choose spectral
transmission properties in Revo lenses.

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