AW: [ RadSafe ] Hazardous Instruments Keep Pilots From Planes

[Cadanau, Rod]

And if you've got about $1,000 and want to get a 120 mW handheld instead of 5mW, try http://www.laserglow.com/handheld.html

-----Original Message-----
From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:54 PM
To: Franz "Schönhofer; Cadanau, Rod; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: AW: [ RadSafe ] Hazardous Instruments Keep Pilots From Planes


I am not sure if the problem is a physical, biological
injury as much as a flash blindness, or a startle
response.  In darkness the pupil is wide open.  If you
want to one with a range of about 9,000 ft, try http://www.physlink.com/estore/cart/GreenLaserPointer.cfm?SID=41

--- Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>
wrote:
> Can anybody tell me, what kind of lasers might be
> able to hit a pilots
> eye six miles out of the airport at 9 000 feet
> elevation to cause eye
> injuries?
> 
> Franz Schoenhofer
> PhD, MR iR
> Habicherg. 31/7
> A-1160 Vienna
> AUSTRIA
> phone -43-0699-1168-1319
> 
> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im
> > Auftrag von Cadanau, Rod
> > Gesendet: Montag, 02. Mai 2005 18:29
> > An: radsafe at radlab.nl
> > Betreff: [ RadSafe ] Hazardous Instruments Keep
> Pilots From Planes
> > 
> > from avweb:
> >
>
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/394-full.html#189679
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Also:
> > Delta Pilot Hurt By Laser
> >  A second Delta Air Lines pilot has suffered eye
> injuries resulting
> from
> > a laser being pointed at his aircraft. The
> unidentified first officer
> . . .

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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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