Question For CaptainDana
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Topic: Question For CaptainDana
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Subject: Question For CaptainDana
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2021 at 5:15pm
| This evening I was driving eastbound about 9 miles east of a local regional airport and saw an inbound plane on approach from the east looking directly into the "lowish" sun this time of the year. My ? is, do the windshields on Leer jets and larger have an "auto-darkening" screen similar to a welding helmet, or do you guys rely on a good pair of sunglasses when landing/taking off ? Thanks |
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2021 at 5:27pm
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I'm betting, sun glasses and sun shades , that 's what the lil planes I flew had... ..and 'autodarkening' stuff would have to have a zillion miles of 'red tape' around it. Say it autodarkened at night and wouldn't undarken !!!!! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2021 at 5:43pm
Thanks Jay, what were the 'lil planes that you flew ? We had a neighbor that was a farmer/auctioneer that had his own Cesna that he landed/stored at his own farm and I was given a 20 minute ride over the neighborhood after baling straw all day at his farm when I was 8, BEST DAY OF MY LIFE up until then  !!
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Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2021 at 7:15pm
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Probably military grade sun shades, or maybe even drop down visors, would be my guess. Planes always take off, and land ‘into the wind’. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2021 at 8:22pm
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Fortunately, when you're in an approach, your sightline is to the ground, which is BELOW the horizon... the opposite of when you're taking off. Our jets do have visors if our pilots choose to, but neither of the guys seem to use them much for landings. Keep it on the proper approach, maintain the airspeed, and follow the checkoff list, make sure you have a clean runway, there's actually very little time when you're actually looking at any angle high enough to challenge the horizon... ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2021 at 7:09am
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got my pilots at 17(sigh FIVE decades ago...thanks...), flew Cherokee140s, out of Hamilton,until city shurdown the flight school that's been there since WWIIish.... while training in London, got stuck in a tstorm...instructor let me stay 'pilot-in-command', 'fun' ride, no wipers on small planes ! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2021 at 11:19am
------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
DaveKamp wrote:Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2021 at 8:13pm
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[QUOTE=Lars(wi)]Probably military grade sun shades, or maybe even drop down visors, would be my guess. Planes always take off, and land ‘into the wind’.[/QUOTE I understand the "wind" landing/takeoff, my question is a pilots ability to land/takeoff into DIRECT sun light at 150 mph+
 !! It's hard enough to drive a vehicle at 50-70m mph at certain times of the day with the "best" of glasses/visors |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2021 at 9:43pm
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Wife driving into early morning sun murdered a brick mailbox and her car but she walked away and like a good husband kept my mouth shut.🙄 ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2021 at 8:11am
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Way to go Stan!! Not very often that happens....LOL ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2021 at 8:17am
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Just glad she walked away
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2021 at 2:57pm
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gladder no one was getting the mail then ! hmm, 'gladder' , that's good english , right ?? ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2021 at 4:09pm
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Is a Word on here Now!! I have a bad Eye, enjoy Prescription level Polarized sun glasses to reduce the light sensitivity aspect, can see that being a Boon to Pilots. Bad thing of the eye injury, I can not ever gain a Mobile Crane Operator cert nor can I ever get a Pilot's License.
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Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2021 at 5:21pm
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As stated before, straight and level is worse. I was flying a Cessna 172 West back towards Kansas City one afternoon, the sun was such I couldn't see out the windshield. I positioned the plane to where I could see I-70 out my side window and kept it there along with checking the altimeter and made it back. Ran into my old flight instructor and told him I did a complete IFR flight, I Fly Roads, I-70 to 291 right to the airport. ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |