Benm
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Drop it.
I'm not going to work the math examples for you.
I'm not asking you to, unless you can do things that go beyond calculating if the exposure would be within MPE and such. This stuff i can calculate myself just fine, and if the results come back that there actually is eye exposure over a mW, i'm find with accepting that this is truly dangerous (to the health of the pilots eyes, that is).
What i am interested in is the actual danger of exposures that are well below MPE but still distracting.
Now that is unfortunate. I would like to see documented cases of these 'incidents'... what harm they have caused, numbers of casualties, property damage, the whole lot.
Apparently no-one, including the faa is willing to share such data if it even exists. If a plane had to do an actual go-around, i'm pretty sure that would make an interesting news story, especially for the laser community. Yet, i have never heard of anything like that happening.
So far, i can only conculde that either:
- no laser related incidents resulting in casualty, loss of property or life have occurred with airplanes*
- these incidents have been carefully covered up and kept from the media
* i mean fixed-wing aircraft here, not helicopters. The story for a helicopter is very different as it can fly very low, very slowly, and usually has windows looking more or less straight down.
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