I think they should have onboard lasers and fire back! Just blind 
the shooters! Jim WA6EKS

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Fowle <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:11:03 -0800
Subject: Re: Speaking of Laser Beams

One wonders what the poor pilots are to do about such reports? 
"Don't look
down?" <OOPS? <CRUNCH>!

At least there should be no doubt as to the appropriate 
punishment! taste of
their own medecine what?

Old programmers dictum:
"Never check for an error you can't do anything about!"
tom Fowle WA6IVG

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 03:00:55PM +1100, Iaen Cordell wrote:
 I have an dedicated Icom aircraft radio and offten hear reports 
of laser
 beams pointing at aircraft, like you said it does not take long 
for them to
 be found.
 also the ATIS beacons give reports of laser usage to pilots on 
approach.
 cheers

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]
 To: <[log in to unmask]
 Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 12:21 PM
 Subject: Re: Speaking of Laser Beams


 Phil, have you heard about the people that have been pointing
 green lasers at airliners and cop choppers? Seems like they get
 caught almost all the time.  I mean a laser as you know is a
 pinpoint of light, all you need is a GPS position and you
 probably will catch the perp if he or she is not mobile.  Jim
 WA6EKS

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]
 To: [log in to unmask]
 Date sent: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:36:14 -0700
 Subject: Speaking of Laser Beams

 I was rooting around in the online NLS library the other day for
 something
 new to read.  I have about a dozen books on my phone I am
 interested in
 reading and about two dozen in my wish list waiting to be
 downloaded to my
 iPhone when I am ready.  I stumbled on a book called What is a
 Laser.  It
 was, and is, just 37 minutes long and was recorded back in 1983
 but if you
 want a grade school level of how lasers work, it is a great 
read.
 Besides,
 grade school is about my level at my advanced age.  Even then, I
 didn't
 understand everything.  And to think they could measure the 
space
 between
 atoms back then and a laser, even back then, could drill a
 perfect hole in a
 human hair.  If you still have hair, that is.  In my case, 
they'd
 have to
 use my Abraham Lincoln beard.  Right up front, this little book
 said, if you
 turned on all the light bulbs in the world at the same time, it
 still
 wouldn't equal the output of the earliest of lasers.  Don't burn
 yourself.
 Now if the laser could just grow hair.

 Phil.
 K0NX


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