Flashing a laser pointer at an aircraft is dangerous and punishableby jail time.!

[msdogfood]

http://pcneedtogo.blogspot.com/2008/10/flashing-laser-pointer-at-aircraft-is.html


This is my public service announcement to the idiots who have decided
to shine green laser pointers into the cockpits of airplanes either
taking off, landing or ascending to cruising altitude. Stop doing it!
You could kill hundreds of people and I or some of my friends might be
one of them. For those of you who don' know, when a laser of any
colour is shone into your eyes, it can take the optic nerve a minute
or two to recover normal vision and depth perception to say nothing of
being able to see the colours of warning lights on the instrument
panel. According to Government of Canada data, these incidents have
occurred 46 times in 2008 alone. The good news is, none of these
victim aircraft suffered any technical problems that would put anyone
at risk. To illustrate, anyone using an optical mouse has probably had
the red laser light shone into their eyes after putting in new
batteries. You will see spots for a very long time. Repeat exposure
may permanently damage the eyes which is not good for anyone in
general and especially if you are pilot. So, to the morons who think
this is fun, I will remind you that if you ever have to fly, you
better hope that none of your friends fl
fash the aircraft you are on.

[Mxsmanic]

msdogfood writes:

> This is my public service announcement to the idiots who have decided
> to shine green laser pointers into the cockpits of airplanes either
> taking off, landing or ascending to cruising altitude. Stop doing it!
> You could kill hundreds of people and I or some of my friends might be
> one of them.

People stupid enough or psychopathic enough to try to blind other people with
lasers are unlikely to pay much heed to your demand.

> For those of you who don' know, when a laser of any
> colour is shone into your eyes, it can take the optic nerve a minute
> or two to recover normal vision and depth perception to say nothing of
> being able to see the colours of warning lights on the instrument
> panel.

The optic nerve doesn't care, but the receptor cells in the retina do. They
may take minutes to recover ... or they may never recover, leaving a permanent
blind spot.

Depth perception requires only that both eyes work. Depth perception isn't
very important most of the time when flying, however, since it only works
within a range of 30 metres or so.

[Bertie the Bunyip[_24_]]

Mxsmanic > wrote in
:

> msdogfood writes:
>
>> This is my public service announcement to the idiots who have decided
>> to shine green laser pointers into the cockpits of airplanes either
>> taking off, landing or ascending to cruising altitude. Stop doing it!
>> You could kill hundreds of people and I or some of my friends might
>> be one of them.
>
> People stupid enough or psychopathic enough to try to blind other
> people with lasers are unlikely to pay much heed to your demand.

At last, something you know something about


Bertie

[Viperdoc[_6_]]

Here we go again- Anthony pretending to be an ophthalmologist, which is
about as funny as his pretending to know something about flying.

[Martin Hotze[_2_]]

msdogfood schrieb:
> This is my public service announcement (...)

Who are you? You are an anonymous poster, using google-groups (one of
the worst ways to misuse usenet). There is NO credibility.

#m

[More_Flaps]

On Oct 26, 9:15*am, "Viperdoc" > wrote:
> Here we go again- Anthony pretending to be an ophthalmologist, which is
> about as funny as his pretending to know something about flying.

Maybe but in this case he is correct.

Cheers