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Rchover1967
Senior Heliman
Location: Perth, WA, Australia

I am thinking about getting Modelglasses to help with my vision, etc.

http://www.modelglasses.com/usa.htm

Anyone has experience with it? Is it durable, works well, etc?

Puffs...goes the Lipo.
10-11-2007 04:49 AM
 
 
Rain Man
Heliman
Location: Bolton, Lancs - UK

I have been using them all summer (although here in the UK that doesn't mean much)

Best glasses that i have used for flying yet and I have tried lots!

Richard
10-11-2007 08:38 AM
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Rchover1967
Senior Heliman
Location: Perth, WA, Australia

Richard, thanks for your reply . I cannot wait so I went out and bought a set of Modelglasses - Nimbus. Been playing with the lens and you are right. It is great...fits well and the three sets of lens are terrific for different light environment!

Puffs...goes the Lipo.
10-11-2007 09:00 AM
 
 
528hemi
Senior Heliman
Location: Rock Tavern, NY Orange County

Any place to order these in the USA?

Thanks
10-29-2007 05:35 AM
 
 
ez2bgman
Elite Veteran
Location: N'awlins, LA

According to Model Glasses' dealer page, there are 2 dealers in the US:

Model Glasses USA and

MS Composit

These look good and I may try a set too.

Gary
RJX of USA
Magnum Fuels
SwitchGlo
>Hot Girlz in da gallery<
10-29-2007 07:28 AM
 
 
Rchover1967
Senior Heliman
Location: Perth, WA, Australia

I have been using it a few times since then. The yellow lens are terrific on gloomy days and the dark lens great on bright days. Apparently I am finding it hard to identify a condition that is suitable for the beige lens...suppose to be good for medium light condition.

Puffs...goes the Lipo.
10-29-2007 08:30 AM
 
 
528hemi
Senior Heliman
Location: Rock Tavern, NY Orange County

I just ordered from real raptors UK...price is a little better even with shipping to the USA. 89.00 shipped for the innovation plus prescriptions.

Jed
10-29-2007 01:10 PM
 
 
raptorheli2
Elite Veteran
Location: rip off britain and no changing it

also ordered a set of nimbus after trying a mates.....the yellow lenses will be perfect for uk flying. was light switchign a light on.

cheers


www.waterfoothelis.com
11-06-2007 01:08 AM
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528hemi
Senior Heliman
Location: Rock Tavern, NY Orange County

Received them today....Now I need to go and get perscription lenses made for them. They look and feel nice. Easy to snap the other lenses in and out...
11-06-2007 02:03 AM
 
 
no1pylon
Senior Heliman
Location: Chorley, UK

i have been using them this year they are good, they also dont magnify anything which helps judging where ground is ( i swear it moves) and the yellow lens is good for all the cloud we get here

Check my Gallery
11-06-2007 08:18 PM
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cub2000
Veteran
Location: Massachusetts

528hemi,

Can I drive to NY to try your new sun glasses on?

Seriously, I never bought sun glasses online because I don't know if they fit my face structure and how they look on me.
11-07-2007 12:41 AM
 
 
528hemi
Senior Heliman
Location: Rock Tavern, NY Orange County

I just dropped them off to get Lenses put in. Sure you can try them on but you wont be able to see with my prescription

I needed another regular pair of glasses so they gave me a deal on the lenses for these glasses ( 50.00 )

I'll let you know how I like them when I get them back.

Also I never bought any glasses online either. I am particular with the shape but these look real nice on me...
11-07-2007 01:06 AM
 
 
Rchover1967
Senior Heliman
Location: Perth, WA, Australia

Look nice? Well, I guess if it looks nice, it will make you look better with the heli too. Just don't crash or it will not look too good.

Puffs...goes the Lipo.
11-07-2007 03:59 AM
 
 
DemonJim
New Heliman
Location: Warwickshire - UK

Prescription Model Glasses

I got some prescription lenses put in my new Model Glasses and they are terrible - unusable in fact - I'm very interested to see other people's experience with the prescription Model Glasses.

The problem is the inner lens frames are highly curved to match the style of the frame, but this distorts your vision really badly (made worse for me I guess because my prescription is -7.0), so much so you feel cross-eyed and it makes you dizzy.

Lenses for spectacles are designed to be in-line, ie flat/parallel, so to fix this I had to carefully heat and bend the brittle inner-plastic frame to straigten them to fix the optics, but this means the curved shaded outer lens doesn't drop down fully so it doesn't all fit together any more.

Overall I'm not at all happy with them but think I may be able to imrove things more by creating a custom mount for the inner specs, but for £40 ($80) for the frame you expect this sort of thing to have been addressed. The inner frame feels very cheaply made, and doesn't even fit very nicely in the frame - it is clearly just a minimum-cost afterthought.

The actual shades are great though, so I'm sure the standard ones are superb but be warned if you're getting the prescription pair and fork out an extra £60 ($120) on top of the £40 for the frames for some shades that would guarantee you fly your 600mm V-Blades right into your own face.
01-02-2008 05:35 PM
 
 
ez2bgman
Elite Veteran
Location: N'awlins, LA

I can't comment on the prescription frames from ModelGlasses, but I just received a pair of the Stratus sunglasses and they are great. These are one of the most comfortable sunglasses that I have worn. I suffer from migraine headaches (since age 6) and cheap lenses bother my eyes and usually trigger a migraine. I have worn my Stratus for extended periods without any problems. They are very comfortable and the Stratus wrap around nicely allowing virtually no light in. I also ordered the new Cat 4 lenses for those super bright days. I paid less then $80 shipped for the Stratus sunglasses and the extra lenses. Not a bad deal when you consider that it comes in a case with 3 different lenses and a nice cleaning cloth too.

Gary
RJX of USA
Magnum Fuels
SwitchGlo
>Hot Girlz in da gallery<
01-03-2008 05:23 AM
 
 
528hemi
Senior Heliman
Location: Rock Tavern, NY Orange County

DemonJim is spot on. I had to bring the prescription glasses back 6 times so they could keep bending them and adjusting them. My prescription is not that bad but can see how they would be unuseable.

I have not flown with them yet so not sure if I will be using them or how they will hold up.

For the price the inner frames should be adjustable. Stay away from these.
01-04-2008 12:01 AM
 
 
John Clark
Senior Heliman
Location: UK

Prescription Model Glasses

Hi Guys,

Firstly, I'd like to thank all those of you who have taken the time to say nice things about our products in this thread.

Regarding the prescription glasses, the outer lenses are decentred, which means the optics are calibrated to nullify the effects of the curvature. Unfortunately, and for whatever reason, a couple of you have had bad experiences. I use them myself, and have had no issues.

The problem might be to do with the shape of different people's faces, which is probably changing the curvature depending on how much the front is stretched.

Obviously we are very interested in our customer's experiences, and welcome feedback from anyone who has problems.

With regard to the prescription clip, these have just been improved (first shipment came in today) and are far stronger than the ones you have. If anyone has one break on them, we will replace the clip without question.

My feeling is that the vast majority of our customers find the prescription glasses fine, whilst for a small minority, they throw up a problem or two. If you find these totally unusable, no matter who you bought them from, we will refund the price of the frames (not your prescription) as long as you are prepared to send them back to us in a resellable condition.

Regards

John Clark

Model Glasses
01-16-2008 02:18 PM
 
 
DemonJim
New Heliman
Location: Warwickshire - UK

Hi John, thanks for the reply and for the offer of a refund on the frames, although I believe you misunderstand the problem.

There is no problem at all with the outer lens because there is no prescription in them so the optics are fine for those from any angle. The problem is the shape of the inner frame, and absolutely not the shape of my face (although many would argue otherwise ) ie. the two lenses are held at too much of an angle to each other it deforms the vision when the prescription is beyond a certain level. I imagine in your case you have a relatively low prescription rating, or possibly you are long-sighted instead and this phenomena doesn't occur with a convex lens, and only when concave.

My situation is I have invested too much in the prescription lenses (I got high refraction lenses to make them thinner due to being so close to the face and were £120 for the pair!), and so have persevered with these glasses. I now have them in a state where I can safely use them (although the bridge on the inner frames is now a little burnt..)

So I have had to flatten out the prescription frame so much that the outer lens now cannot drop fully (I will re-iterate this is caused by the inner lens being flat, NOT because of the shape of my face!). I'm sure this problem is only because my prescription is so bad and probably because it's near-sight corrective.

Trust me, it IS a fundamental flaw in the design which I know can easily be resolved in the basic design, but you have to understand the problem first. I would be more than happy to help outside of this forum (more detail, diagrams etc.) if you PM me we can talk outside of here via email.

I would hate to think of someone crashing because they couldn't quite see properly (it would be very easy to just think "oh they're new, I'll just get used to them" ), when with this forum we have a chance to avoid it with a very simple modification. I doubt very much that it is only 528hemi and I that have had this problem. I honestly believe it would be dangerous to fly a big heli with the prescription glasses as they come [when you're as blind as I am without glasses anyway].

cheers
Jim
01-16-2008 06:03 PM
 
 
MrKev
Heliman
Location: Headley Down, Hampshire, UK

Quote 
Also I never bought any glasses online either. I am particular with the shape but these look real nice on me...

I'm an ugly bastard with or without glasses on, but I think I look better to my mates when I can see the thing I'm flying, and my missus prefers it when I crash less, so I can spend more money on her.

In the UK, on a sunny day, any old sunglasses work ok, but on an indifferent day, which we get a lot of, or late in the afternoon at the moment, when the light is fading, the lenses really help with the contrast. Myself and a couple of other rekon it's like another 15-30 minutes flying time as the light goes.

I've got a set of these - the polarised ones, and I use the brown polarised lenses almost all the time, and the yellow ones to get an extra few minutes in as the light goes.

--
Kevin.
Sponsored in the UK by my Missus.
01-16-2008 08:35 PM
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528hemi
Senior Heliman
Location: Rock Tavern, NY Orange County

Hi John,

I have to agree again with DaemonJim. It is not a face shape issue.
I have an astigmatism which is common and it makes it that much harder to adjust the lenses to correct for distortion.

That being said, I am going to try and use these this weekend and will report back.

As I said in my first post, I love the way they look and and hoping I can use them....

Thank you for offering to refund the glasses if they are unuseable.
Since I bought another regular pair of glasses, The lenses only cost me 50.00 US so is not to bad. Without buying a second pair of glasses the lenses would have been 150.00 ouch
01-17-2008 12:58 AM
 
 
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