Sunglasses for soaring

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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On 14 Sep, 18:13, 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.

Are Sun Tigers the very bright orange ones? If so, I have heard that
they are good for spotting clouds but that they can make field
selection difficult as crop colours - and hence maturity - are
difficult to distinguish.

I have a couple of pairs of Cloudmasters which I bought after
discussions here years ago: I understand they have excellent UV
protection (which is why I wear them, really) and they are very good
for cloud spotting with little colour distortion.

Ian

Ian wrote:

Are Sun Tigers the very bright orange ones? If so, I have
heard that
they are good for spotting clouds

They are good for that and more.
STs significantly improve visual clarity in both bright and hazy
light.
You can see better, which includes the ability to pick out small
objects
at a distance.

I can't comment on how STs compare to Cloudmasters in those
respects
as I have never worn CMs.

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On Sep 17, 4:32 am, Ian wrote:
On 14 Sep, 18:13, 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.

Are Sun Tigers the very bright orange ones? If so, I have heard that
they are good for spotting clouds but that they can make field
selection difficult as crop colours - and hence maturity - are
difficult to distinguish.

I have a couple of pairs of Cloudmasters which I bought after
discussions here years ago: I understand they have excellent UV
protection (which is why I wear them, really) and they are very good
for cloud spotting with little colour distortion.

Ian

Field selection isn't much of an issue here. We mostly grow rocks and
sage brush!

On 17 Sep, 15:50, wrote:

Field selection isn't much of an issue here. We mostly grow rocks and
sage brush!

Perhaps you need to carry rose tinted spectacles as well, then?

Ian

Anyone have any thoughts on Eagle Eyes Sunglasses,
which seem to be made on the same principal as the
Sun Tigers?
http://eeo.com/ It seems that that group of NASA (or
JPL) guys formed TWO rival sunglasses businesses after
discovering the secrets in the eye of birds of prey,
which was an amber fluid that blocked not only UV A/B,
but also blue and violet. Although only available with
polarized lenses, Eagle Eyes have many more frame options,
some of which actually look cool.

Paul Hanson
"Do the usual, unusually well"--Len Niemi