"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
07/14/2019 at 00:21 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
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A no shit real picture by the FAA of a real no shit laser in a real no shit cockpit.
Another green laser into th e cockpit. So all of you get a nother public service announcement from me, to the public here, so that those of you who ever thought about doing it can tell your friends that might actually do it, that pointing lasers at airplanes is indeed a shitty thing to do. No, a really shitty thing to do. Why? Because at least one pilot where I work can no longer fly planes due to getting tagged by a laser while trying to land. And that’ s when I got tagged.
I was just inside the final approach fix, about 4-5 miles from landing, High concentration because landing in ‘
V
egas always seems to involve some kind of wind factor. I’m f
lying the approach when directly from my right, the cockpit starts getting illuminated. The Captain could determine it was from a hotel,
but only beca
use he used to live there in Vegas, not because he looked directly at it to find out
. I just focused the best I could on the runway if not slightly shifted to the side of the airport.
I got a mortgage and a family to support, people. If I go out on medical disability , I sell the house and bunk up the kids, regardless of the level of insurance. I no longer get to work the job I put so much effort and time into. While many others either get a diabetic condition and have to stop or just get unlucky with some FAA violations, I wound up luckily here and damn fortunate they called me. Now some ass-hat gets to take that away because his gene pool tells him lasers at planes is cool and that’ s all that matters?
5 times so far in my life since 2010 have I been hit and this was the worst one yet. I wasn’t sure if I had symptoms or not until an hour later when nothing happened. That’s the only way you know, by sudden blindness or later on you get some variety of painful optic swelling and then it never gets better.
Tell your friends, or stupid nephews, or ass-hole uncles you never talk to, that when they start buying junk for their guns (because they’ re that much of a bad- ass they need laser targeting) that this is no joke.
What happens if you do it? Anyone does it? The pilot tells the tower of the general area and the police immediately drop what they’ re doing and head over to you. There’s a direct line from the tower, or any control facility, to area law and they point a car at you. Federal crimes like that get attention. So don’t do it.
End of rant. You may now resume naked swimming.
CB
> Grindintosecond
07/14/2019 at 00:47 |
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That’s shitty. People are, speaking from work related experience, morons.
To make you feel better, have a moron doing something dumb and getting what he deserves.
Discerning
> Grindintosecond
07/14/2019 at 00:48 |
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People can’t seem to grasp that their actio ns have consequences.
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> CB
07/14/2019 at 00:54 |
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You said he got what he deserved, yet they didn’t shoot him..
/S?
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CB
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/14/2019 at 01:01 |
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Generally frowned upon.
... granted, I think that in the video they mention an airsoft pistol, so he’s lucky in that regard.
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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> CB
07/14/2019 at 01:02 |
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What an idiot.
We should really ban lasers like that
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CB
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
07/14/2019 at 01:04 |
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Wouldn’t be a terrible idea. But then you get the people going “but I use my laser for responsible reasons. Like... uh... don’t take my lasers .”
atfsgeoff
> Grindintosecond
07/14/2019 at 01:04 |
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A class IIIa (<5mW) laser pointer shouldn’t be capable of causing permanent eye damage to a pilot from a momentary flash , especially from thousands of feet away where the beam has diverged significantly . Annoying but generally no lasting damage .
If your colleague’s vision was permanently affected, that means whatever did it, was a much more powerful and dangerous laser and the douchenozzle responsible INTENDED to blind someone. They should have their eyes surgically removed and given to someone who will appreciate them more.
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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> CB
07/14/2019 at 01:22 |
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“what if I need to point at something 20km away?"
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Grindintosecond
> atfsgeoff
07/14/2019 at 02:09 |
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shouldn’t? So, this is definite or not? Bring research/data please?
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atfsgeoff
> Grindintosecond
07/14/2019 at 02:19 |
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Basic breakdown here:
https://www.laserpointersafety.com/laserclasses.html
Nominal Ocular Hazard distance for class IIIa is 52 feet or less. Anything past that will not cause permanent damage. Furthermore, out past 261 feet there isn’t even flash blindness risk.
Spanfeller is a twat
> Grindintosecond
07/14/2019 at 02:46 |
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Assholes.
facw
> Grindintosecond
07/14/2019 at 07:42 |
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My understanding is that most instances of pilot blinding are caused by astronomy lasers (almost certainly not being used as intended): https://www.laserpointerpro.com/astronomy-lasers-c-70 (note: I sspect very few of that site’s customers are in to astronomy)
These things are super powerful (class 3b or class 4 devices), and quite dangerous if you get hit in the eye. There have been calls to restrict consumer purchases to less than 1mW, but I don’t think any have been successful.
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facw
> atfsgeoff
07/14/2019 at 07:46 |
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Of course you have to be able to trust that the output is what it says it was: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2013/03/nist-tests-underscore-potential-hazards-green-laser-pointers