open face w/ goggles or full face helmet??

[mhartboca 0]

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There are very few goggles that work well with contacts.

ditto. i even tried the ones that seal around each eye and my contacts still got very dry..

Now i jump with a Z1 full face and absolutely love it.

Michael Hart

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

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I prefer a full faced helmet, but I don't use the visor. My Oxygen provides the protection I need, but I wear goggles under it to feel the breeze. It works out great, and goggles are a lot cheaper to replace than visors. I both free and flat fly with no issues whatsoever.

Good point, Randy. When I do wear my factory diver, it's generally without the visor and with goggles (sky eyes with the tube stoe strap) over the top. The only time I wear a full face helmet with a visor is when it's freezing cold outside and even colder at altitude. That said, I have plenty of "proficiency" jumps in the cold and will generally not skydive if it's too cold to wear an open face helmet.

Chuck

[kallend 2,026]

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At my DZ you can't have a full face until you have a C licence. Its not just because it limits your vision, but it also removes your sense of touch of wind against your face and dampens the hearing.

I would argue that the wind against the face is a distraction, as is the wind noise. There is no research on cognition that shows people perform any task better when subject to 120mph wind blast in the face and loud noises.

This is such an individual preference that mandating it is plain ridiculous.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[tbrown 26]

I wear a Mindwarp with large sized goggles to fit over my glasses, which are small. Works just fine. But I have been clopped in the face once or twice on exit, bit my tongue nicely once when I got somebody's knee in my chin. I think if I got into serious 4 way, I'd have to get a full face or I could wind up spitting out my teeth.

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