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from the ABC News website (my bolding).
Silly boy. Wonder what this'll do to his ARN & ability to hold an ASIC?
Man fronts court over lasering plane
Posted 2 hours 7 minutes ago
A 20-year-old Brisbane man has faced court over charges relating to pointing a laser at a plane.
Police seized a laser from Nicholas Gregory's home at Ashgrove in inner-city Brisbane after a pilot reported seeing a green light in the cockpit as he flew over the area.
The aviation student appeared briefly in the Roma Street Magistrates Court this morning charged with common assault and endangering the safe use of a vehicle.
The matter was adjourned to later this month when he is expected to enter a plea.
Posted 2 hours 7 minutes ago
A 20-year-old Brisbane man has faced court over charges relating to pointing a laser at a plane.
Police seized a laser from Nicholas Gregory's home at Ashgrove in inner-city Brisbane after a pilot reported seeing a green light in the cockpit as he flew over the area.
The aviation student appeared briefly in the Roma Street Magistrates Court this morning charged with common assault and endangering the safe use of a vehicle.
The matter was adjourned to later this month when he is expected to enter a plea.
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If that was an electrician, who touched two phases of a 3 phase supply, just to see how 415v felt......... you would say he deserves what is coming to him/her.
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He's commited an aviation related offence, and he's demonstrably an inappropriate person to hold an ASIC. I'd say he can kiss his aviation career goodbye.
I don't have too much sympathy for people who do this sort of thing.
I don't have too much sympathy for people who do this sort of thing.
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Don't be so quick, he needs to be found guilty first!
"I was merely pointing out the 'Southern Cross' to my girlfriend, when an aircraft crossed the beam your Honour"...
"I was merely pointing out the 'Southern Cross' to my girlfriend, when an aircraft crossed the beam your Honour"...
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Don't be so quick, he needs to be found guilty first!
Seriously; I should think that if convicted, no ASIC!
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If he is indeed guilty it makes you wonder what the hell was going on in his mind although the obvious answer is probably "not a lot"... For it to be a student pilot as well thats just absolute madness, would he enjoy having someone shine something into his cockpit on approach making him unable to see... idiot.
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If deliberately targeting a plane with the laser then certainly, he deserves what he gets. Consider though that pointing a laser at the sky in and of itself is not a crime. Many astronomers have telescopes equipped with green laser pointers as they allow for easy alignment, it could merely have been a 'mid-air' accident.
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Don't y'all remember the story in the papers only a month ago about the large number of convicted criminals with MSIC's? I wouldn't be too surprised if this fella still got granted an ASIC.
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The RAA will still take him 
But if you do require an ASIC for your desired activities, he should find it a little harder to get by
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ohhhhhh dear............. Pilotette you are a poo strirrer!
Just for that, if you are in moree tomorrow for the big party I will buy you a beer!
Anyone else going for the 60th ?
Just for that, if you are in moree tomorrow for the big party I will buy you a beer!
Anyone else going for the 60th ?
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Jabawocky, I don't mean to be a picky but I was under the impression that you do actually need to hold either an ASIC or an AVID to "exercise the priviledges" of your pilot's licence, at least for VH- reg stuff. Not sure about RAA.
but I was under the impression that you do actually need to hold either an ASIC or an AVID to "exercise the priviledges" of your pilot's licence, at least for VH- reg stuff. Not sure about RAA.
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If you want to exercise your privileges into a secured aerodrome you do. Otherwise I think you do not..... or did not ....but the way sh!t changes how would you know! 