It has been a couple months since I put on the "stick-on" bifocals. Ultimately I'm going to have a set of bi-focals made for me but I've liked these as they have allowed me to play around with their location to get them just right and they have never popped off the glasses.

I use bifocals by Method Seven, the transition was perfect in my case, everything above the glare shield its normal, and everything below is augmented.

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Here is a review I did on them.

Critical question is can you see the panel with your single vision correction lenses?

If so, get or keep sunglasses in that prescription, and bifocals perhaps for the night...

I started a thread on this topic on both Cessna Pilots Society and BeechTalk. Lots of others contributed so you may want to go there and search for Sunglasses Solution.

As a resume, it was time for me to visit my optometrist to update my prescription sunglasses which included bi-focal readers on the bottom. Was looking for a better option... About only realistic option are sunglasses with progressive lens. Following is my conclusion post:

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Thanks to everyone who contributed to this topic. I learned a lot and hope others did too.

Well, I got my new sunglasses today and they turned out great so I will share the decisions/results.

In our last episode I was about to see my optometrist and was considering ditching my prescription sunglasses for something else. A little research indicated that the only practicable something else was progressive lens sunglasses.

Went in to see my optometrist and he took a long time with me finding a new prescription and analyzing my situation. He pointed out that he designed my prescription lens with bi-focal on the bottom to give a particularly wide F O V for the instrument panel / dashboard. He was ok on a progressives solution but cautioned that I might lose F O V and related that my/our local AME refers a lot of pilots to him for progressives. Turned out that my prescription has not changed much over the last two years and as I alternate between clear and sunglasses prescriptions, my choices were:

1. Do nothing. Optometrist was fine with this. Cost $0
2. Have new lens made for one of my older frames. Advantage is better prescription, I could get lens made slightly darker and my current sunglasses would be a good backup. Cost (after insurance) $94
3. Investigate a progressives sunglasses solution with something new. Attractive but probably $400-$500+.

So I went with Choice 2 and am happy. A side advantage was that I had a few meetings with the drop-dead gorgeous Christina with the sexy Lauren Bacall type voice. Of course she tried to sell me new frames because the insurance pays part and that’s just what she does.

Overall worked out very well. Thanks for reading.

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Still happy with choice and subsequent have been told that you have to move your head more with progressives (dunno about this but does not sound desirable).

Blue skies,

Tommy

Thanks for the additional comments and I just need the glasses for reading so I think I'm good to go with the bi-focals. I also love the M7's and I'm looking forward to getting a bi-focal setup.

I just had my annual eye exam this morning, and due to previous issues with my eyes caused by Graves Disease requiring a pair of eye muscle surgeries, the FAA requires that my eye doc complete the appropriate FAA form as well. Results: no change from last year, glasses are still spot on, vision without them is 20/20 for distance (thanks to cataract surgery and inter-ocular implants), still happy with tri-focals, which I've been using now for 36 years.

Just a couple of cautions for anyone whose eyes have reached the presbyopic stage at which bifocals or trifocals or progressives have become necessary, and you're trying to decide what to do:

• What works for one person won't necessarily work for another. Best example is that some like progressives, others hate them.
• Any multi-focal lenses, whether bifocals, trifocals, or progressives, take awhile to get used to. Just because you don't like them at first doesn't mean you won't like them, if you wear them! If you don't wear them, you'll never get used to them.

Cary