February 5, 20179 yr I'm very glad to see here in the UK that this practise has now been made illegal and will carry a jail sentence. It's taken long enough for our Department For Transport to do this but finally they have. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38871180 What sort of an idiot does this "for a laugh"?
February 5, 20179 yr They walk among us, sadly... :( Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
February 5, 20179 yr Happened to me about a year ago over Santo Domingo flying a 152. Pretty scary honestly. 4790K @4.9GHz, 32GB DDR3, 1080Ti, W10-64bit
February 5, 20179 yr I'm very glad to see here in the UK that this practise has now been made illegal and will carry a jail sentence. It's taken long enough for our Department For Transport to do this but finally they have. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38871180 What sort of an idiot does this "for a laugh"? Stupid, irresponsible people, that's who. Catching and successfully prosecuting them is the real trick. The same thing goes for people who misuse drones... and any other device or tool that you can think of. Just my dos centavos. My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
February 8, 20179 yr In Sweden we have a law since 1988 called "The Radiation Protection Act" (In Swedish “Strålskyddslagen”1988:220). It says: 1 § The purpose of this Act is to protect humans, animals and the environment from harmful effects of radiation. 2 § The law applies to both ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. With ionizing radiation provided gamma rays, X-rays, particle radiation or another to their similar biological effects. Non-ionizing radiation refers to optical radiation, radio frequency radiation, low frequency electric and magnetic fields, ultrasound or other to their similar biological effects. The summer of 2016 was tried in a court if the law would also include laser pointer. The answer was that the law also included laser pointer. Anyone who is guilty of crimes against the Radiation Protection Act can be sentenced to fines or imprisonment up to two years
February 8, 20179 yr It´s a non sense. Who in the world would like to put at risk hundreds of people. Anyway, hopefully pilot reports through ATC, and public help will help to catch these gentlemen infraganti some day and give them what they deserve. Jose • i7-7700k • MSI Z270 • GTX 1070 FTW • 16GB Ripjaws • ETS-T40
February 8, 20179 yr Difficult to catch people who do that sort of stupid stuff. To be honest, it's probably kids who don't think about the consequences of it too much, but that still ain't a good excuse. Have actually had someone attempt to do that to me some years ago when flying near Leicester in the UK at about 2000 feet, never got me in the eyes directly, but I could see someone was clearly trying to at least hit the aeroplane although whether they were trying to get me, or even aware of how flipping stupid a thing to do it is, I couldn't say for sure. Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
February 8, 20179 yr happened here in oz the only difference is the idiot decided to do it against a police copter and of course was caught and now before the court I7-8700k,Corsair h1101 cooler ,Asus Strix Gaming Intel Z370 S11 motherboard, Corsair 32gb ramDD4,, gtx 1080ti Card, RM850 power supply Peter kelberg
February 9, 20179 yr Just to add to my previous post since his reason for using the laser on the police copter was, he thought it was a ufo lol wonder how it will go in court if he decides to go with this I7-8700k,Corsair h1101 cooler ,Asus Strix Gaming Intel Z370 S11 motherboard, Corsair 32gb ramDD4,, gtx 1080ti Card, RM850 power supply Peter kelberg
February 9, 20179 yr I flew into Cairo two years ago at night and saw three green lasers flashing up at us as we came in in final approach. - Paul Elliott http://www.avsim.com/topic/450607-amy-johnson-london-to-australia-attempt/
February 10, 20179 yr We get this alot at Gatwick. We also get it alot when the pilots are doing a long day the following day and the filling out of paper work to extend their duties just happens to not give them enough rest for the following day
February 10, 20179 yr Just to add to my previous post since his reason for using the laser on the police copter was, he thought it was a ufo lol wonder how it will go in court if he decides to go with this Let's hope so, in which case they can charge him with endangering the planet; after all, if it really was an alien UFO, they'd potentially regard his laser pen shennanigans as a hostile act, which could trigger an interplanetary war. So, let's see, that'd be what? Endangering the lives of 7.5 billion people... 5,000 years minimum prison term? Seems fair to me. Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
April 27, 20179 yr On 08/02/2017 at 8:49 AM, pilotinblue said: It´s a non sense. Who in the world would like to put at risk hundreds of people. Anyway, hopefully pilot reports through ATC, and public help will help to catch these gentlemen infraganti some day and give them what they deserve. I agree it's non sense! Karma is a bi... skola
April 27, 20179 yr Has happened a few times this year at LPPT too :-/ On one occasion, Lisbon approach even directed approaching crew o turn off their lights at night, until on short final. Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
April 27, 20179 yr This happens unfortunately at EDI when using a particular runway direction. The approach is over a couple of less than affluent areas and its usually neds doing it. I believe because it was happening on such a regular basis at one point the police,airport and crews managed to pinpoint the address and caught the guy But there are others still doing it Pete Little
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