I did not think there would be so much interest.
Only posted due to personal lamping, not laser & it was nice to hear some get caught.
Nice to know that the smaller units will not blind us just degrade our night vision for a while, great if you are flying in urban environment, with other traffic around you (news ships & police) leaves me with a real relaxed feeling, Nick I am interested to read your links, but if night vision can be degraded by lasers of 5Mw a 2\300Mw is going to have a significantly greater effect.
www.saao.ac.za/~wpk/laser/index.html
and another 2\300Mw and pulsed
www.wickedlasers.com/lasers/Spyder_II_GX-26-0.html
This is without spending time at it
I think Nick is saying that as with all beams distance \ air quality will reduce their effective power. At a distance determined by the laser power the effect will vary, it is at low level and high work load + darkness that the effect will be worst, the jobs that spring to mind are Police,low over built up arias SAR again low with high work load and any helios\aircraft landing