Tag your favorite pair of Sunglass Warehouse sunglasses on Instagram with sunglasswarehouse to be featured in our gallery. This site requires JavaScript to function properly. Please enable JavaScript in your web browser. Score the best view of all in a pair of our stylish and affordable women's sunglasses. Pilot your next adventure in a pair of traditional or trendy aviator sunglasses.
Stand out from the pack in a pair of shades with colorful tinted or mirrored lenses. Block the glare and sharpen your view with a pair of our polarized sunglasses. The aviator was originally designed to give military pilots the best possible coverage for their eyes in the sky.
Both the teardrop shape and more rectangular aviator shape feature larger lenses that provide full coverage of the eye socket for pilots.
Additionally, the design keeps the lens close to the face, so a visor can easily be lifted up or down. Even the bayonet temples were originally designed so that the pilot could slip their glasses on and off without having to take off their helmet or headset. While original aviators typically came with green tinted or AGX lenses, the Federal Aviation Administration FAA now recommends gray lenses, as they allow in the most natural colors.
All of these elements have made aviators the go-to choice for pilots both amateur and professional alike. Randolph has its own roots in aviation and providing pilots with aviator sunglasses. Select your aviator lenses with care. The tint and material affect performance and your public perception. Green, gray and black. These lens tints work well with the widest range of outdoor light, from sunny to partly cloudy to foggy or low light.
These lens tints let more light pass through, which helps you identify different colors, but they have less flexibility than black, gray or green.
Lenses that are dark at the top and lighter at the bottom give you more flexibility, helping you see more details in the lower field of vision while blocking solar rays at the top. High-glare places like highways, beaches and ski slopes often require polarized lenses. Astronauts, test pilots and ski tourists wear mirrored lenses because they reflect solar rays, providing the most protection.
Mirrored lenses can intimidate, so choose them with care in social settings. But, as you can read in the FAA recommendations above, they are no good to pilots. The reason they are so popular is the exact reason why they are not good for us pilots: they diminish glare by blocking out horizontal light, while allowing in vertical light. This can cause issues inside as well as outside the cockpit. Sunlight scatters in all directions.
But when it strikes flat surfaces, the light that is reflected by the surfaces tends to become polarized — meaning the reflected light beams travel in a more uniform usually horizontal direction. This creates an annoying and sometimes dangerous intensity of light that causes glare and reduces visibility.
Polarized lenses have a special filter that blocks this type of intense reflected light, reducing glare and discomfort. One example is downhill skiing, where you actually want to see the bright patches of reflected light because they alert you to icy conditions. Polarized sunglasses can offer great advantages when it comes to decreasing eye strain and discomfort in bright sunlight, but again, they are no good use to pilots.
First of all, if you have a glass cockpit or GPS displays, these screens usually already have an anti-glare filter. Wearing polarized sunglasses will reduce your ability to clearly read these instruments and will interfere with your ability to read LCD screens, who emit polarized light.
Secondly, polarized sunglasses can also cause trouble when looking outside the cockpit. They can also alter cloud appearance and reduce ground reflections useful for VFR pilots.
Besides, these lenses can cause distortion patterns from certain laminated cockpit windshields. All in all, polarized sunglasses are great for everything, besides flying. We, therefore, recommend you to buy non-polarized sunglasses for use inside the cockpit.
We have only included those non-polarized sunglasses in the list below. If you want the best sunglasses for flying, we recommend going for the Randolph Engineering sunglasses.
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