nklr: night vision goggles

[The Schwaiger Family]

I would not recommend riding a motorcycle with Night Vision Goggles (NVGs).  You’d be taking a very big risk.  I wore NVGs in the Army while driving Humvees at oh-dark-thirty and it was VERY difficult and this was while basically moving at a slow convoy speed or even just over idle.  Riding a motorcycle off-road at night would also be more difficult than driving a four-wheeled vehicle.  It takes a lot of training and experience to do this safely.  You really do lose your depth perception.  I couldn’t tell if a hole or rut, etc. was right in front of the vehicle or much farther away.  It can also make a person become pretty disoriented because of this.  Yes soldiers do operate vehicles with them and helicopter aviators fly with them, but they receive a tremendous amount of regular training to do so.

 

By the way, you’d need to switch your headlight off since it would provide too much light for light-amplified NVGs.

 

Rick

’87 Concours

’99 KLR650

 

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   Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 03:23:31 -0700 (PDT)

   From: CrazyDave

Subject: Re: NKLR: Night Vision Goggles

 

 

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:22:17 -0700 (PDT), KLR650@... wrote:

 

>  Brian,

> 

>  Night Vision devices of the type you are looking at only work in total

>  darkness. If somebody turned on a light source in the area where you're

>  viewing, it would be magnified 100,000 times and your would be

>  momentarily blinded by the brightness. They also have a very limited

>  field of view. 

> 

>  Conall

>  A4 KLR650 Skyhawk

>

 

I believe there are also issues with depth of field perception.

 

crazydave