SunTiger Sunglassas

On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 8:17:16 AM UTC-8, Charlie M. (UH & 002 owner/pilot) wrote:
In the 30 some years, I can't say polarization has hurt in identifying other aircraft. As soon as you tilt your head vs. horizontal, wing glints show up.
Being able to tilt your head side to side to see "haze balls/domes" develop helps.


Charlie: That's exactly what I meant to say: Only as soon as you tilt your head vs. horizontal, does the wing glints show up.
And I hate have a nice flight always having to tilt my head right-side and left-side.

How often, in a Soaring flight, is your head close to "perfectly vertical"?

As I stated, sorta pilot preference, but I have no clue if polarized glasses EVER made me miss a potential hazard.

I weigh what I am looking for vs. what I "may" miss. This is a lot of hours in thermal flight vs. ridge flights.

Again, sort pilot preference.
I doubt major time looking at accidents/near hits (I hate near miss as a comment, to me it means you only hit mildly, but it's still a midair......semantics, but sorta accurate.....whatever....) would yield any data for either type of glasses.
Pick what floats your boat.