Originally Posted by
Mike Jacoubowsky
Yep, that's exactly what he does. Just curious, are there any official guidelines or recommendations (which obviously wouldn't work) for dealing with the sun?
I do like the idea of glasses "that you can kind of see through."
Wonder what it was like in the old days, flying east across the rockies or sierras in a bird that would be challenged much above 10k feet? No (or not terribly reliable) radar, no GPS. Just what you can see out the window... if you can.
No, no official regulation I know of. I guess you are always on a see and avoid looking out for traffic, but all traffic up high is IFR and controlled. You can't see anything looking directly into the sun, so its a wash I guess.
I used to fly in the military and we didn't have all the extras like TCAS, autopilots, wx radar etc.. It was the same as now, you didn't know any better. Flying is flying. The thing about today is we have more systems to back up pilots in case of an error, which is nice for us and you. GPS is nice versus VOR to VOR. While the toys we have now are better, the job as an airline pilot in the old days was much better.
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