OMG really? I fly EMS in Oklahoma and have been lasered once. Approach control told me that there were reports of it in an area I was about to cross and sure enough there it was. Just a small laser, and I assume that's what most of the reports are, and it was only a momentary glint on the bubble and nothing more. Anything with enough power to do retinal damage is against the law. The lasers used on guns are not powerful enough to do permanent damage. What is the big deal?

Our NVGs are perfect. Before we got them there was always some "bright" fireman at the landing zone that thought he had to guide us in with his light shinning right on us. Blinded us of course. Now the goggles just show it as a bright light but not enough to blind us and they still let us see the surrounding terrain. Best things since rolled toilet paper.

You'd be surprised, the same way there are wackos with cars, there are wackos with HAM licenses. There have been quite a few cases of operators getting their radios and modifying them to Tx/Rx out of band and causing problems for local PD and FD. Then they get caught because the brag to someone and that person reports them. It happens a lot more than you think, illegal CB ops that cause interference don't go down as much as you would think.

The FBI takes lasers pointed at aircraft very seriously. A CW3 in my unit pulls double duty with homeland Security flying Hawks for C&BP. One of their guys got lased and had some eye damage. They located the guy that lased them and he got 4 years and a $100k fine. I found out about this while getting lased myself while flying with that W3. We were on approach at 3k feet about 2200hrs or so, when bright green laser stared bouncing around the aircraft. We broke off approach dove in on the "target" and pulled up a hover over his house, he continued to laze us until we were a few hundered feet from his front door, at which point he ran inside. We stored the grid coordinates, and relayed his address to approach control along with the grid. He was also arrested, not sentenced yet though.

Hard to tell for sure under NVG's. Was a male, looked to be somewhere between I'd say 20 and 40. Thought the laser was mounted on a weapon, but, couldn't tell with enough certainty to claim it was. Was a pretty average house in a middle income part of town.

I'll have to search for them, I have seen several ones with PH and FD, only seen 2 that were aviation related. And yes the CB's do splatter harmonics all over the place, I was referring to ones modded to do so, not someone who amplified and then realized what they could do and exploited it.

Robert
KC9SGU

lazing aircraft is a felony. lasers above 5mw I believe are restrictetd and regulated by teh FDA i believe.

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Yeah, I've had an RC plane fly DAMN close to me, and guys in my unit have been lased often, they say it's amazingly bright... of course we fly attack aircraft so we make a game of it.

Just don't do what one of our guys did back in the late 80's.

He was teaching the UH-1 NVG IP course at the time and was on one of the NOE routes along a river. He got spot lighted by the same redneck from the same single wide for a third time that week and decided that he'd had enough.

So he hovered up to the trailer and began repeatedly bouncing his skids off the roof to teach the guy a lesson.

That didn't go over too well for either party.

could have gone much worse for the redneck in the trailer