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"Cockpit Colin" wrote:
For what it's worth, I own one of the green variety - it's great for pointing out starts etc at night. My feeling is that if someone shined in the cockpit from (at least) 1 or 2 miles away, ... (a) It would give me a bit of a fright - be damned annoying, but not damaging - possibly causing a precautionary go-around at worst. (b) Being that the beam is visable, it should be possible to give a pretty accurate description of where it came from. (c) Unless you mounted it mechanically, it would be pretty hard to keep it shining in a cockpit. Given the current talk on the topic I'm tempted to setup a controlled test (with an additional safety pilot) where I'll get someone to shine it at me (perhaps from the tower) during an approach in a GA aircraft. Regardless of what that web page said, or of your feelings outlined above, I still put shining a laser, or for that matter any other light source, at an aircraft - cockpit or not - in the same category as shooting a rifle at an aircraft. Sure, the probability of either bringing down the aircraft [or even hitting it for that matter] is low. But mishap after mishap report has identified the mishap as a chain of low probability events and omissions that combined to render the mishap inevitable. There is no way of some yahoo having fun pointing his laser or rifle at an aircraft knowing whether or not the aircraft is in the midst of such a chain, and that the momentary distraction of a laser flash in a pilot's eye, or a round ripping through a cockpit window might be the final event in the chain that terminates the flight in a smoking pile of wreckage. For verisimilitude, why don't you try that flight as an engine out landing, with an electrical failure on a NORDO approach. That might give us a better idea of whether or not a laser flash can be distracting. -- OJ III [Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.] |
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