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V8MoneyPit:
Some people obviously have nothing better to do and really need to get a life.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7812050.stm

Saffy:
bah there will always be idiots.......but really.....if it such a big deal i.e there is really a serious potential for someone to bring down an airliner (or any aircraft) with a 99p laser pen then it just goes to show there is something seriously broken with flight safety.

Imagine what could be done with a high power large laser mounted on a scope. Imagine if a terrorkiddy stood on a motorway bridge and shined in fueltanker driver eyes over a 1/4mile.

Smego:
it's just a masive over-reaction, the pilot sees a light and goes into mental mode, there is only one reported case of a pilot being "blinded" for, "about 15 seconds" in over 17,000 recoded cases!!

NANNY STATE!

dxmedia:

--- Quote from: Smego on October 14, 2009, 09:52:39 ---it's just a masive over-reaction, the pilot sees a light and goes into mental mode, there is only one reported case of a pilot being "blinded" for, "about 15 seconds" in over 17,000 recoded cases!!

NANNY STATE!

--- End quote ---

Remember reading a responce from a pilot about this on slashdot a few years ago.  When Oz banned all lazers over 50mw (or something - can't remember the power). If you actually get on into the cabin and into the eye of a pilot (not talking the 99p lazer pens, more the £30 ones - have a look on the internet, they are sodding powerful - can pin point the sides of buildings across a town centre), then they can't see jack.

Thick chav scum deserves to go down for this. So does that guy who was sat at the bottom of liverpool airports runway with a trancever a few years ago re-directing air traffic !

[/rant having had one shon in my eyes]

carbore:
Its a wierd one this.

I find it had to understand how they can easily aim a laser at that distance (min 500yds) when it must be very hard to see the dot, especially until it hits something.

Re the size of the problem I cant imagine why anyone would make this up/over emphasize the problem as there seems little political or commercial mileage in that. Its not like ID cards or ASBOs or anything where there will be a huge hooray from Daily Mail readers, I cant think that Pilots will benefit from this publicity as in being paid danger money or other such nonsence (not will they not benefit). So I suppose I suspect it must be a growing problem as usually things only get reported if they are genuine, or non-genuine but worth some money/political mileage to someone?

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