Originally Posted by
learn2turn
Interesting idea. I night ski in winter and sometimes ski with light yellow glasses on,I have some Smith ski glasses with interchangeable lenses. On a few nights, I just forgot to take them off for the drive home, an hour drive on state highways and interstates at 10:00PM. I found I liked the yellow lenses as they improved contrast.
I'll give me yellow lenses a try flying sometime and see how they work.
It seem to remember that a lot of target shooters use yellow aviators also. There's definitely something about it improving contrast.
My guess is pink will look whiter and blue will look blacker.
Good comments and observations, thanks. I have found since the new lenses corrected my cataracts, my eyes are VERY sensitive to light. In fact, even when cloudy, if I am not wearing my Serengeti's, I'll have a headache pretty quickly. Back in the day, I wore yellow lenses to help on those comp days when there were only clouds...
As of this morning, I'm working on revision to the bottom wing/tail scheme to my more normally-visible large white patches leaving existing blue wide stripes, so the pink is essentially covered except for the inboard 1/3rd of the bottom. I have no illusions that this change will help, except that maybe the white v.s. blue contrast will be better than the pink/silver/blue.