Mxsmanic wrote in
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Judah writes:

What altitude where you at?

I would bet that a kid with a handheld laser pointer might be very
difficult to catch and prosecute, and I bet even a handheld laser
pointer will create a flash in your eye at 2000 feet, even if the
beam has diffused enough that the "operator" won't be able to tell
for sure where it's hitting your plane...

If you're lucky, you will only see the diffused portion of the light,
and not the beam itself, which may damage your vision. It sounds like
the OP saw only the periphery, not the beam itself (which, as you
indicate, would be extremely difficult to aim with precision from the
ground, unless the culprit also had some sort of telescopic sight and
a way to hold the laser steady). The beam of a good quality laser
(highly collimated, that is) will hardly spread out at all over a
distance of a few thousand feet and thus may still be only a
millimetre or two in diameter.


So, you going to put a laser pointer on the edge of your monitor now?


Bertie