I can only highly recommend the Zeiss Skylet glasses: https://www.zeiss.com/vision-care/int/eye-care-professionals/products/sun-protection-outdoor-lenses/sun-lens-colours/skylet.html
Great contrast, no polarization.
Those guys are selling them, either in standard frames like ray ban or custom made in YOUR frame:
http://www.aero-optik.de/produkte/fliegerbrillen/
One of my best invests ever.
Any feedback on Flying Eyes optics with prescription lenses ?
denopa wrote:
It looks like the Pitts sunglasses, which were excellent, are not for sale anymore… I still have mine after close to 7 years and wanted to buy a pair for my brother, but it’s too late.
Yes they were excellent but he stopped selling them.
It looks like the Pitts sunglasses, which were excellent, are not for sale anymore… I still have mine after close to 7 years and wanted to buy a pair for my brother, but it’s too late.
I fly with these https://www.porsche-design.com/en/Eyewear-Glasses/Sunglasses/P-8669-Sunglasses.html
very nice with A20, but they don’t really hang over your head, so you need to put them in a pocket when you don’t use it.
I fly with these. They hold with flat textile band, so they don’t make a hole in the headset seal.
I bought this more street-compatible model but in the end I just use the first ones.
the lens are plastic so very prone to scratches
Practically all lenses are plastic nowadays. Glass is used only where the highest refractive index is required (e.g. +6 or some such which would be really thick in plastic) or, not sure if this is still true today, for photochromic lenses (which are useless for flying anyway because they need direct UV which you don’t get in a cockpit, or in a car).
The issue with glass lenses is that they are heavy so frames with the two nose pads can’t be used
You have to use this style
That’s my experience at least.
And few frames in the last style will have thin side bits.
FWIW, my current ones are these, based on this idea 
The lenses were made by a specialist outfit in the US because nobody in Europe could do the +0.50 reading add-on which I have for one of my eyes, for the kneeboard distance.
I don’t know the brand of the frame. I bought it maybe 5 years ago for about 150 quid. It is as thin and light as Silhouettes but much less flimsy.
Peter wrote:
Most (not all) Oakleys have far too thick side bits
greg_mp wrote:
And in addition, the lens are plastic so very prone to scratches.
Not the Oakley’s Im talking about. I couldnt tell you how much prescription lenses are though…
Like these…but the indent on mine looks more pronounced:
Silhouette. Serengetis work too but depending on headset (clamping pressure) could b me too stiff.
