Crisis Writes:
" It appears from the latest ATSIN that has been issued that airport Visual Control Rooms are now, in Europe anyway, becoming the target for l@ser 'attacks'.
Not quite on the same danger scale as for pilots landing but certainly a serious risk for ATCOs. "
Quite the same danger, if not more - knock a few of our venerable controllers out at the same time, what happens to the traffic they're handling?
I wouldn't think it's a smooth handoff, like "I have to go pee, back in a few" or whatever.
Blinding several of you at one time could be a serious issue, especially if anything odd happens to be going on at the same time.
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