On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:51:23 GMT, "H.P." wrote:

Thanks for offering. The instruments seem slightly out of focus but distance
out to horizon is ok. Reading glasses help but not well. Transition is a
slight problem when going from horizon sight picture to instruments. Also, a
1.0 or 1.25 reader solves the problem with focus on instruments but I need a
1.5 or higher to set the altimeter or to read the compass card (and probably
the flight computer when I get to use it. Last week I took a lesson that
started just before sundown because the tower held us short for nearly 15
minutes. I wore 1.0 readers. Forty-five minutes later during civil
twilight, reading the instruments was difficult. Forget about reading my
checklist.

A bit above my pay scale! Are you talking about the non-prescription
spectacles sold in drugstores and the like? Are these glasses from an
optometrist/occulist/whatever?

Reading glasses generally won't help with the instrument panel. It's
either distance vision or get trifocals.

If your Rx is not radical, you can get progressive lenses with no line
in them. If it is radical, like mine, then you can get "Smart Seg"
bifocal that is actually a reading Rx on the bottom and intermediate
on top. In fact, I got these glasses when I started flight training
and repeatedldy found myself asking the instructor--this was in a
Cessna, before I switched to the Cub--"Where's the altimeter?"

Even before that time, I had a special pair of computer glasses, when
I found that I was miserable reading a computer screen either with the
top part of my glasses or the reading part.

(But this information is only on the questionable assumption that I
understand your post. If it applies, then you don't need an
aeromedical specialist. Any good optometrist will fix you up.)

Good luck!

all the best -- Dan Ford
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