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Aftermarket Visors: Rosens Worth the Price

The standard sun visors found in most older airplanes find their design origins in cars from the 1950s. They just don't cut it when youre boring into the setting sun on a westerly heading. These older visors get the sun out of your eyes, but they also block your view of any traffic or obstacles you clearly want to avoid.

Aviation Consumer Staff
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e standard sun visors found in most older airplanes find their design origins in cars from the 1950s. They just don’t cut it when youre boring into the setting sun on a westerly heading. These older visors get the sun out of your eyes, but they also block your view of any traffic or obstacles you clearly want to avoid.

Airplane Sun Visors

As it always seems to, the aftermarket has provided a better solution in the form of several transparent sun visor products made for a variety of general aviation airplanes. The products range from simple slap-on sun shades to suction-cup-mounted devices to higher-end units that replace outright the original sun visor. Prices vary from just a few dollars for the floppy slap-on shades to several hundred for a pair of PMAd replacements. For this report, we’ll concentrate on the higher end products, with a nod to the portable gadgets.

Big is Better

If there’s one thing we learned in testing the different transparent sun visors is that bigger is definitely better. A bigger shade blocks more of the sun and glare,

Aviation Consumer Staff