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Hey Steve, I know you are always open to safety comments, so here’s mine. I thought I heard you say you had polarized sunglasses on this flight. So here are 2 reasons why you don’t want polarized sunglasses. If you have head on traffic approaching, you are closing at 3 miles per minute or more. Generally you can’t see that head on traffic until they are within a mile, giving you seconds to react. So that flash of sun reflecting off their windshield at 3 miles can save you. Your polarized glasses filter that glare out, you don’t see the flash.
Secondly from my sailing days I learned polarized glasses make liquid crystal displays harder to see, so for glass cockpits many of the displays will be close to invisible.
Here in the US, there’s no requirement not to wear them (Really, the FAA hasn’t legislated them. Yet.), but I just don’t wear them because my plane has an acrylic windshield and seems to make dark stripes. I just keep a pair of non-polarized (bifocals) in my plane and switch them.