Lance, I can just see you sitting at the opera with those things on. LOL.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lance Van Nostrand</b> <<a href="mailto:patterndude@tx.rr.com">patterndude@tx.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I couldn't resist a gadget like this. Based on Jim's full endorsement, I<br>purchased a pair of these things. Man, do they make you look geeky! They
<br>stick out 2" from your head and people looking at you see giant eyeballs.<br>As far as working for pattern pilots, probably not. There just isn't enough<br>field of view for you to see the overall positioning and manuver size.
<br>However, they might be an interesting judging tool. Without a transmitter<br>in your hand and the risk of crashing, you can position these glasses on the<br>end of your nose and go back and forth between zoom view and normal view.
<br>The optics aren't that great either. There is a bit of a halo around<br>objects under the best of circumstances, and the edges of view are more<br>distorted than the center. There are lens designs that reduce this effect,
<br>but this isn't one of them. This is not to say they are a complete "toy".<br>For watching a play or nascar they are probably fine, but not for the<br>exactness that we require.<br><br>--Lance<br><br>----- Original Message -----
<br>From: "James Oddino" <<a href="mailto:joddino@socal.rr.com">joddino@socal.rr.com</a>><br>To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org
</a>><br>Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 2:44 PM<br>Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Eyeglasses<br><br><br>> Has anyone tried to fly a pattern plane with telescopic eyeglasses?<br>> I've seen photos of Germans flying high altitude stuff with them but
<br>> I'm not sure they would work for our purposes. Take a look at :<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.eyeglassbinoculars.com/">http://www.eyeglassbinoculars.com/</a><br>><br>> Jim O<br>> _______________________________________________
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