Guess Who's Planning to Shine Lasers on Pilots

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:19:20 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote in ::


"Larry Dighera" wrote

I think the Air Force probably has a good idea for the use of lasers
in alerting pilots. I think the Secretary of Transportation's
statement stems more from a hysterical siege-mentality than rational
thought.

I gotta agree. The point of safety , IMHO, comes more with the fast few
blinks of laser, vs extended blinding by Joe Q. public.


It looks like the AOPA is attempting to assist the USAF with this:


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AOPA ePilot Volume 7, Issue 11 March 18, 2005
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AIR FORCE URGED TO WORK WITH AOPA ON LASER WARNING SYSTEM
When the House aviation subcommittee met Tuesday to discuss the
hazards posed by civilian ground-based lasers aimed at pilots, talk
quickly turned to an Air Force plan to use lasers to signal aircraft
that stray too close to the no-fly zone around Washington, D.C. While
the Air Force claims its laser system is safe, not everyone is so
sure. Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.), an AOPA member, expressed concern
that tests of the lasers had only been conducted on pressurized
aircraft--not smaller GA aircraft with thinner windscreens. He urged
the Air Force to work with AOPA to develop and test the system on more
typical GA aircraft. Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa), also an AOPA
member, was the first to raise the issue of how lasers could affect GA
pilots. He said that he had been thinking about how distracting it
would be to try to land his own aircraft with a laser in his eyes. See
AOPA Online
(http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsite...0315laser.html ).

I just got out both my red and green lasers and turned them on myself!
Of course, I wasn't flying, but I'm still a (student) pilot.

Can I get a reward for turning myself in?


"Larry Dighera" wrote in message ...


Just as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta
Announces New Laser Warning and Reporting System for Pilots*, the USAF
finds aiming lasers at pilots may not be such a bad idea after all:


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AOPA ePilot Volume 7, Issue 7 February 18, 2005
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AIR FORCE PROPOSES LASER WARNING SYSTEM
The Air Force has begun aiming what it terms "safe" lasers at a test
aircraft operating out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to
develop an alternating red-red-green laser light system to warn pilots
who stray into the Washington-Baltimore airspace without permission.
"USA Today" reports that operational testing could begin in the spring
followed by what the Air Force promises will be "intense" briefings
for pilots operating in the Washington, D.C., area. AOPA officials
will be among those briefed and the association already is working
with the Department of Defense and the FAA to learn more about the
system and how it will be used. AOPA has requested a preview and
demonstration.


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http://sev.prnewswire.com/transporta...2012005-1.html

"Happy Dog" wrote in message
. ..
"Matt Barrow"

Google Gary Schwarz. Or Nobel laureate Brian Josephson. Both
whackos.

And their influence on the young people is...what, exactly?

They'll be influenced by bull**** pseudoscience.

Kinda makes you wonder what sort of professors the Nobel committee learned
under, doesn't it?

But that wasn't _your_ point, was it?

On the same line, I've worked with honors students in engineering that can't
do basic math because their professors were discouraged from failing
students that couldn't do math. One of my professors years ago was dismissed
from Rice University for failing so many students. He said, "They can't do
the math, so I'm not going to pass them".

Try to see the big picture. Acquiescing to academia is folly, given that
their mission is NOT education (real education, not the PC/political
agenda), but indoctrination. Churchill is only one instance out of millions.