Now available are Sporty’s VFR Training Goggles, which were designed by a Sporty’s Academy flight instructor to get the student’s eyes off the gauges and outside the airplane.
While wearing VFR Training Goggles, the view of the panel is blocked, forcing the student to look outside the airplane.
“There comes a point in flight training when students get hypnotized by gauges instead of looking outside the aircraft,” says Sporty’s Vice President John Zimmerman. “Many instructors resolve to put a sectional chart over all the panel in an effort to get students to look outside while practicing a maneuver. This is a better option.”
Constructed of pliable material to conform to a pilot’s head, the VFR Training Goggles fit snugly with an adjustable elastic strap, and won’t interfere with headsets, according to Sporty’s officials.
Price: $12.95.
How about the instructor INSTRUCT the student to look outside.
Train them to look outside then make them look inside when they go for their instrument ticket. Aviation is only for the insane.
Pretty sure the same thing can be accomplished with an old pair of sunglasses and some electrical tape.
No lens means no UV protection, what were they thinking with these … full sun on top half ???
Do not need any stinking high priced goggles, cover the unneeded gages, even if just with sticky notes, accomploshes the same thing without encumbering the student and making the process more uncomfortable or more expensive.
Eggzackly, John Wesley. It seems to me that students wearing these things will now have a severely restricted field of vision when they do actually look outside the cockpit. Teach lookout, lookout, lookout, beat it into their brains from Day 1.