A Study of the Hazardous Glare Potential to Aviators from Utility-Scale Flat-Plate Photovoltaic Systems

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Module type</td><td align="center">Polycrystalline silicon (p-Si)</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Module Tilt/Azimuth</td><td align="center">25°/0°</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Atmospheric attenuation between the module and the pilot’s eye?</td><td align="center">No</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Subtended angle of the sun</td><td align="center">0.00093 radians</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Diameter of the pupil in sunlight</td><td align="center">0.2 cm</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Focal length of the eye</td><td align="center">0.0017 cm</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Transmission coefficient of the eye</td><td align="center">0.5</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

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Table 1: A Study of the Hazardous Glare Potential to Aviators from Utility-Scale Flat-Plate Photovoltaic Systems 