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From: markmo@tekig.UUCP (Mark Morland)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: contact lenses and flying
Message-ID: <2578@tekig.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 23:13:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 23:13:19 1985
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In article <59@utastro.UUCP> padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) writes:
>What does the pilot with these lenses (hard contacts) do when making night-time>approaches?
>
>Padraig Houlahan.

I land the airplane!

The stray reflections from the edges of my contacts bother me while
driving, as oncoming car headlights are bright.

Fortunately, the runways we pilots use are lighted with fairly low
intensity lights.  They are not used to light the pavement, just give
a visual reference for the altitude/centerline/ends of the runway.

My contacts have never bothered me in flight, I almost always clean
them just before I pre-flight the plane.  It's better then than after
my fingers have traces of gasoline and a coating of 50 weight oil!

Yours,

Mark Morland  -  a Private Pilot for 2 1/2 weeks now :-)