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Old 5th August 2014 | 05:44
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Thridle Op Des
 
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While there have not been any attributable accidents to illumination by laser, I have to disagree with G0ULI especially in the regime of causality in the contemporary safety environment. If you are looking for a 'pilot blinded by laser and crashed' scenario, then as you say, that modality has yet to be experienced. As one of the components of the accident interaction then I would venture that this needs to be addressed. As someone who has experienced a green laser attack while on intercept for an ILS, my physiological reaction was quite interesting. The mental preoccupation with the event as well as the 'scratchy eye' effect I had was very distracting from managing the aircraft trajectory, even as Pilot Monitoring. We reached the stand safely and neither was any paint scratched, underwear changed or death (apart from my images of what I would like to have done to the 'scroat' if armed with a baseball bat), nonetheless as part of the whole safety environment, I would suspect that the idiot on the ground also asked "what could possibly go wrong when I flash this aircraft with my laser pointer".
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