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From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: contact lenses and flying
Message-ID: <492@ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-May-85 03:00:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.492
Posted: Sat May  4 03:00:58 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 6-May-85 01:05:29 EDT
References: <59@utastro.UUCP> <32@rtp47.UUCP> <524@terak.UUCP>
Reply-To: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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In article <524@terak.UUCP> dennis@terak.UUCP (Dennis Kodimer) writes:
>I had an experience once in sailplanes which relates to vision and
>self-control.  I don't wear contacts.  One day at the flight line in
>a sailplane (I forget the model), I opened the panel air vent while
>waiting, after wiggling for the tow to go.  This was a dirt strip.
>When the tow did finally open full throttle, a blast of dust came
>into the cockpit and we were already at 25+ knots.  My eyes burned,
>I was semi-blinded and speed was increasing rapidly.  The answer:
>self control *big-time*, as was pointed out.  I ignored the pain
>and tears and got myself to enough altitude for a go-around landing.
>
You don't give your altitude or the length of the strip, but at 25+ kts
you could not have been very high or very far down the runway, and a better
decision might have been to pull the release, add full spoilers and land
straight ahead.  Concentrating on a tow and go around with badly impaired
vision is likely to be difficult and hazardous.  Glad it worked out.

Bob Langridge				(UUCP: [...]!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl)
Computer Graphics Laboratory		(ARPA: rl@ucbvax  
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