Sunglasses

[FrankS]

Currently on business in the US, a collegue from work took me caly pidgeon shooting this morning (they just call them clay's over here) and leant me some yellow UV protection safety glasses. As you can guess these were optically very good, so this afternoon I went down the gun shop and bought a pair, all of 13 US Dollars!.

So if you are in the US, it could be worth visiting one of the many Gun Emporiums and picking up a pair. They should be very good for flying and being safety glasses will give eye protection as well.

I didn't hit much though about 1 in 5!

[JaseGill]

Frank,

I always wear Oakleys (well when the sun bothers to pop its head out of the clouds in London) and they are great.

Gat a couple pairs and the coating is super hard, the lenses are glass, they are optically perfect and they look pretty cool too.

They are more expensive than the ones you suggest but I guess you get what you pay for. watch out on eBay though as half are fakes and anything under 100 a pair new is dodgy. always expect the certificate of authenticity, the genuine Oakley cases can be bought for anything between 6 and 20.

Rgds,

Jase.

[Bender]

I use some safety glasses from the snap-on man, they look like shades, not too bad ones at that

[jmac]

Re: Sunglasses

[quote=FrankS]Currently on business in the US, a collegue from work took me caly pidgeon shooting this morning (they just call them clay's over here) and leant me some yellow UV protection safety glasses. As you can guess these were optically very good, so this afternoon I went down the gun shop and bought a pair, all of 13 US Dollars!.
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They are really good for the cloudy weather here in the UK. I bought some from Home Depot (under $10). I got them for 2 reasons - one, the visibility but secondly (and much more importantly), the safety. If I remember rightly they are tested to take some incredible impacts and it has always worried me slightly what would happen if a stray bit of CF from a 'funky chicken' got me in the eye. (I actually got pretty close to this when someone tried a max performance '3D' takeoff with the wrong model selected. It landed in the pits. Nuff said....

Well worth considering these specs!

Cheers

[chappers]

back in the days when i was flying fixed wing pattern, i wore shades with a red tint, made to my prescription (also available without prescription lenses) made everything crystal clear. still available too im told firm still advertises in the plank mags? wonder why they dont advertise in our comics?