Nailing Laser pointers from Airplane...could it work?

Bandit_Driver said:
Too much money.
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Too much money is a relative term. The problem is that the baseline is subject to change over time.

The first time a laser-moron causes a 747 or 380 to do an unsuccessful 'Sully' into Jamaica Bay, the acceptable cost of prevention changes. Same thing happened with parachutes, GPSs, on-board Wx Radar, Transponders, and many more things that make life safer and we take for granted. Now.

For the time being, I'm good with any form of swift and sure punishment, with deterrent publicity. Castration, being locked in stocks by the entrance to long-term parking, whatever it takes to deter these thoughtless 'terrorists.'

It's like most crimes to potential criminals: What is a practical deterrent? To someone whose thinking is probably impaired.

In the mean time, I'd buy the $200 glasses if I sat in a front seat.
 
MaRiO FDZ said:
I had another Laser encounter last night and I started thinking if there could be a way to get rid of them... Discussing it with anoher pilot, we came up with this idea, wondering if it could work. GA seems harder to make it work, but airlines could definetly try it.

How feasable could it be to install a launcher that releases like a small, disposable smart bomb that locks on a cordinate upon where a laser pointer was fired at an aircraft (even if only for a couple of seconds), and once it reaches the target coordinate it bursts and releases a UV or Infrared dye that police can pick up on the ground ??

I know this may be a loooong shot, but I seriously don't think this is too far fetched. Whatcha think, could it be done?

Take Care
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For GA, you can just get your rifle out of the back and fire back.
 
If I ever find one of those bastards, I am going to grab his left
testicle and feed it to the dogs. Then for the grand finally Ill run him over with a bus, drop an elephant on him, while he chokes to death because a snake is grabbing his neck but he wont die just yet, Ill make sure a piano falls on him and breaks 3 of his tooth's and if he survives well I just grab his right Testicle and .........
 
crticalaoa said:
If I ever find one of those bastards, I am going to grab his left
testicle and feed it to the dogs. Then for the grand finally Ill run him over with a bus, drop an elephant on him, while he chokes to death because a snake is grabbing his neck but he wont die just yet, Ill make sure a piano falls on him and breaks 3 of his tooth's and if he survives well I just grab his right Testicle and .........
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Damn.................would you like one of my Norcos?
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We all get the possible dangers. They think it's like watching your cat chase the beam across the carpet.

John Q. Public doesn't see the problem.

Yet.
 
I'm curious, but you guys realize the goggles only work on certain lasers while leaving others completely unaffected right?

There is no catch all goggle/windscreen. The ones we use in the Army work on 3 specific wavelengths because at the time we put in the order for them those were the three most common laser dazzler systems on the battlefield. Change the wave length of light to something else and it'll fry your eye like you're not wearing them.

Meta data from GPS derived coordinates on some kind of sensor and recording ability are gonna be the key ways to catch and prosecute these jack holes. That's why every time they are dumb enough to dazzle a police helicopter or military aircraft something actually happens vs a report and investigation but no result. Unfortunately that would mean turning every airline and GA airplane into an Air surveillance platform and that's in no way going to be cost effective until the idiots doing this kill a plane full of people and motivates something congressional. Same way as short of putting jammers on the interstate or summery capital punishment your never gonna stop texting while driving.
 
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None of the laser safety goggles issued by the military will work for the laser pointers idiots are pointing at airplanes from the ground. Unless they legislate all commercially available laser pointers use a specific wavelength, and they design flight crew goggles tuned for that specific laser wavelength. But then the cat is out of the bag, tons of "legacy" laser pointers already out on the market, and there is nothing to prevent non-compliant "wavelength approved" laser pointers from being manufactured.

The lasers the idiots are using, although visible, are no where near as powerful as the laser designators used in the military for targeting, and the ones the military uses are not visible - you wouldn't know you were being lased until your eyesight was already destroyed because you don't generate the blink response - given the equipment in 121 airliners today.
 
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