Please dont laugh at an accidentally inflated dinghy.Do not wear commercial polaroid glasses
Sure you have a lot, happy to read if you agree to share a few of them ( in the pilot thread of course)I have been flying for a long time and understand everything perfectly, there are no trifles in flying.
I can also tell you a lot of stories, but it was simply funny by the ban on polarized commercial glasses in those early years, although I also understand the reason for this prohibition.
Just in our present glass cockpits reality it sounds very actual
The reason is not because USAAF or USN was against "Fashion"... but polarized sunglases make it difficult to read certain displays/lights and instruments in the cockpit...Do not wear commercial polaroid glasses
OK, this did not happen in an aircraft, thank goodness... but when I was doing my Yachtmaster, we were in a bit of a storm rounding Cape Point... and a fellow pupil, felt sick, leaned head over the side between the deck and a rail and got sick, as he was splurging as his life vest suddenly inflated, squeezing him between deck and rail... No knife... We were all laughing so hard, trying to free him... then I lurched... Unexpectedly... With nowhere to go, because of the position I'd taken to help free said crew member, I ended up splurging over everybody!Please dont laugh at an accidentally inflated dinghy...
OK, this did not happen in an aircraft, thank goodness... but when I was doing my Yachtmaster, we were in a bit of a storm rounding Cape Point... and a fellow pupil, felt sick, leaned head over the side between the deck and a rail and got sick, as he was splurging as his life vest suddenly inflated, squeezing him between deck and rail... No knife... We were all laughing so hard, trying to free him... then I lurched... Unexpectedly... With nowhere to go, because of the position I'd taken to help free said crew member, I ended up splurging over everybody!
There you go. I am not perfect. First and last time I ever got sick anywhere, doing anything, incl spinning Cessnas over the Australian and South African countrysides.
We had the survival knife straped left-hand side in our survival-vest...hence "quite" easy to grab, even if your head/face/neck is pressed onto the canopy (unwanted dinhghy inflation)...all this at approx. 350 Knots cruising speed...or on a hairy final or take off.Yeah, better pilot than a sailor...
p.s. Stays on the forum...
The reason is not because USAAF or USN was against "Fashion"... but polarized sunglases make it difficult to read certain displays/lights and instruments in the cockpit...
Nowadays (commercial and military) pilots have the same ban.