sadly my friend you are using logic, and logic would say that is a bad plan 
to fire lasers at aircrafts.
mind you I do like your style! <smile>
cheers
IC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Oyen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Speaking of Laser Beams


>I am rather surprised that some enterprising officer hasn't thought of =
> carrying a green laser on his person and aiming back at the source from =
> the chopper. Only, his laser would be significantly higher wattage.
>
> that would certainly put the miscreants on notice. A few good examples =
> of blinded criminals will send a loud message.
>
> DE n7zzt Eric
>
> On Nov 22, 2015, at 9:11 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
>
>> One wonders what the poor pilots are to do about such reports? "Don't =
> look
>> down?" <OOPS? <CRUNCH>!
>>=20
>> At least there should be no doubt as to the appropriate punishment! =
> taste of
>> their own medecine what?
>>=20
>> Old programmers dictum:=20
>> "Never check for an error you can't do anything about!"
>> tom Fowle WA6IVG
>>=20
>> 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=20
>>> beams pointing at aircraft, like you said it does not take long for =
> them to=20
>>> be found.
>>> also the ATIS beacons give reports of laser usage to pilots on =
> approach.
>>> cheers
>>>=20
>>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>>> 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
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>> 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
>>>>=20
>>>> ----- 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
>>>>=20
>>>> 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.
>>>>=20
>>>> Phil.
>>>> K0NX
>>>>=20
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