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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