Originally Posted by odile53

Yes, I wear goggles over my lenses when skydiving. At terminal velocity in freefall, 120 mph windblast would probably dry them out pretty much instantaneously. Not a happy thought if you're trying to read an altimeter or pick your ground landmarks out. Even the bare-eyed twenty-twenty gang wears goggles while jumping, their eyes tear up otherwise. Goggles are pretty much de rigeur at my DZ. You don't want to be dealing with debris in your eye when you're making your final approach under canopy in case the ground wind suddenly shifts.

I put wetting drops in while climbing to altitude, just before we turn on to jump run (before the door is opened,) then put the goggles on. Haven't had a problem in over two thousand jumps.

Oh, and by the way, if you saw our club's Cessna Skywagon, you'd probably want to jump out of it too, even if you never took a skydiving class in your life! A lot of these club planes AREN'T perfectly good airplanes!