I'm finding that as I age, my eyes are getting more and more sensitive to glare and overall problems with doing manouvers in the sun. All SSF (serious stunt flyers) know that there is an unwritten rule that the wind always blows directly into the sun during contests. I wear prescription glasses and use a magnetic clip on sunglass attachment but even though the clip on is as dark a tint as possible, I find myself being blinded during some of the tricks we do. I try flying around the sun as much as possible but sometimes intersections just end up being right into the sun.
What are you guys using and remember that I need something that will go over my existing glasses?
Alan Resinger
Mr. Resinger, thank you for this post. I have a story that I really like to tell, Here goes! When I was getting in my mid '50s I had to get glasses. At the time I was flying Captain on a UAL 727. I went to the standard optometrist and started from there. Each year I had to redo the prescriptions. When I retired well things were different as I no longer had to squeak rubber on concrete.

After a few years I went back for a redo and of course thicker lenses. Then I was having some pain in the temple areas. Then the glasses were getting thicker and thicker.
The pain was getting very bad. My physical Doctor sent me to a different doctor with some other specialty. I crashed a few RC models as my sight got worse along with the pains in my head. Then I thought maybe a change in doctors would help. Now I believe
I had some help, as the first Dr. was in the yellow pages, an ophthalmologist. He said that I had some bad cataracts. He said that my left eye was still that excellent sight of 20-10. My right eye was 20-30. The pain was because the nerves just behind an a tad lower try to correct eye differences and other items. They were trying to make the eye differences work better. Well the first cataract removal created fantastic changes. In one week all pain was gone. After touching up the left eye
and removing that bit of cataract, with glasses that correct the right eye to the left eye, no pains anymore unless I go a couple days without wearing my glasses and I get a fuzzy hurt. Put the glasses on and in 30 minutes all is fine. I go back each year for a check-up. NO Problems yet.
I have sent probably some 20 fellows to this Dr. All have found him to really change their lives over what the optometrists do. There must be many like him but I need no more search.
Best of luck to any and all that go with the ophthalmologists. As for the sun, I use regular snap-on darks and they work find. To each his own there.