pointing lasers at aircraft

it may seem fun at the time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k4C8grAGP4

 

until you accidentally kill hundreds of people..

 

From someone who flies- This is so not cool. It's hard enuf to fly at night without some douchehole trying to blind you.
It's illegal and it WILL get you arrested if caught.

 

Serves him right.

Edit: Question answered through PM. Thanks!

In any case, hope they teach him to not do that again!

 

We have had about a dozen of this occurrences. No one knows where it comes from but it happened to me while flying prob 6 months ago.

 

owned

 

Stupidity..

 

Whats the amount of jail time and/or fine ?

 

Not enough, but it has to be voluntary mansluaghter or neglegant homicide if something fatal happens.

 

http://www.gadling.com/2009/11/03/two-years-in-jail-for-pointing-a-laser-at-a-plane/
Says here that he got 2 years for it

 

Not cool at all. Do you ever get "lazer'd" ? If so do you have anyway to know who it is?

 

Yeah this is not cool. Being a Navigator in C-130s Ive been hit on a approach into McClellan Airfield in sacramento it really F's up your night vision. Its a BIG deal with reporting it to the FAA and local law enforcement.

 

The little box of videos that are similar there is one titled "laser kids get shot by AC130"..didnt watch but I assume they're getting what they deserve

 

Am I the only one to think about Call of Duty 4 when they switched to thermal?

 

standard is: 11,000 dollars fine, 5 years. probably cost more to keep him in jail

I can see on a PRM simultaneous arrv/dept in TCAS mode c where you are so close together, and have to watch for alot of traffic. junk flying off pos airlines

 

Mmmm good ol Wescam FLIR. I use that camera all the time, fun! Anyways, thats sacramento! The position doesn't jive with what the TGT reads though.... I looked it up on maps and its pretty open fields, not suburbia.

 

Had this happen on a flight to Burlington vt, but whoever was pointing it at me was signaling SOS... So I circled them, they stopped, and I reported their lat lons to Boston center. It was in the mountains, but I never found out if it was a for real, or someone joking.

 

At work, seem to get an occurrence of this at least once a month reported by AA/AE pilots.

 

I heard one of those stories about a friend of a friend who knows a guy who heard about this dude that..........

anyway, the guy was standing in a field in a semi remote location lasering planes. Less than a half an hour from the time he lasered the first plane, a black Chevy Tahoe shows up with some serious looking dudes dressed in black. They not so nicely told him to knock that shit off or he wasn't gonna like what would happen to him next.

The response time is what got me. He was twenty minutes from town. They were either out there already, or were dispatched from a not-so-big town within ten minutes.

Don't fawk wit teh airplanes!