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Old 10th Jul 2013, 18:59
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How difficult is it to hover and then go straight up .... blind?

Hey guys.... quick question.

I was on another forum and somebody posted a video from Egypt of a helicopter flying around the riots and there were a ton of people in the crowd with green lasers "painting" the helicopter.

Heres the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljJF_Yit5Jw

The posters suggested he could have been blinded by the lasers.

I got into an argument with some of the posters because I suggested he just go straight up and turn a little and go away from the source even though the source may have been all around him, he was still a couple hundred feet up at the time.

The people I was talking to suggested if he was blinded by the lasers that he would have been screwed and crashed the helicopter.

Thoughts?
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