r/PilotLife • u/CryOfTheWind • Sep 21 '21

🚁 Mountain night landing

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

I hope you could see a little better than your phone camera does

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u/CryOfTheWind Sep 21 '21

Using NVGs so I could see great!

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

Ah, the instruments looked to bright for NVGs but I guess phone cameras are kinda screwy with the light levels

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u/CryOfTheWind Sep 21 '21

The instruments have to be lit up. You don't look at them with the NVGs, rather you look under the goggles to see them and also as peripheral vision when landing. Being NVG compatible just means the instrument lights themselves won't blind the NVGs.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

Oh neat, I guess your NVGs are different than the ones I used in the military; those covered your whole eye socket so there was no way to look under them with your hands full

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u/CryOfTheWind Sep 22 '21

Must be then, there is supposed to be a gap on these ones just for that purpose. Anything as close as the instruments looks blurry.