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Subject: Re: (no subject)
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Vile things, those. Growing reports of them causing trouble for
planes on final approach. I hope to never encounter one. Source: am a pilot On 12/28/2015 02:39 PM, zooer wrote:
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I think they are horrible and cheap looking. Doesn't look Christmas, it looks like you spent no effort in decorating your house. People who use them should be publicly shamed. (unless of course they use them in addition to other lights)
*Maybe* if you could install a cookie that kept the light away from anything other than the main surface of the house, avoiding windows, trim, not-the-house areas, etc. But I doubt that would happen.
I mean really ... if you can be bothered to buy a $30 laser projector and stick it in the lawn, you can be bothered to buy a real laser and a mirror actuator, and spend a month programming an intricate light show set to seasonally appropriate music.
(Maybe by next year I'll have thinned out the trees in front of my house a bit more ... as it is now, you can't really see the house from the street.)
Thu Dec 31 2015 12:54:55 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: (no subject)*Maybe* if you could install a cookie that kept the light away from anything other than the main surface of the house, avoiding windows, trim, not-the-house areas, etc. But I doubt that would happen.
Or you know.... move the damn thing closer to the house so all the light stays ON the house.
Find your inner child and change its diaper. It's 2016, get going already.
Vile things, those. Growing reports of them
causing trouble for planes on final approach. I hope to never
encounter one.
I have often wondered how shining hessentially hundreds of laser pointers into the sky would affect aircraft but assumed they must just be very low power laseres that only travel a few hundred feet. You'd still see it to some extent I'm sure, if you were lined up just right.
A house I lived in was *directly* under the airspace for the alternative runway at a major airport. Every now and again it would be non-stop low flying planes going over the house. The planes came in south-south east to north-north west, and the front of the house faced north. If we had these lights on the house I could see a problem.
The house was a straight line three miles from the start of the runway (according to Google maps) If you looked up as the plane passed over you didn't see the windows of the plane you saw inside the landing gear compartments.
Yep, I'd totally believe it. Approach procedures vary by airport, but a rule-of-thumb standard glideslope on final approach is 3 degrees, or a 5.24% grade. A large aircraft on long final (meaning they line up with the runway several miles out) would be only 276 feet above ground level at 1 mile from the touchdown point. (1 * .0524 * 5280)
Many airports have homes to within a half mile or less the touchdown point, so you can see the reason for concern.
These devices are pretty new, but many pilots are already concerned about "lasing" from handheld battery-operated lasers shown at aircraft. It is a particular problem on final approach at night, when the aircraft is in a nose-down attitude, and vision is critical. Those lasers can refract across the windshield (basically making the entire windshield or cockpit look green) or cause momentary blindness (or simply eyes adjusting for bright instead of dim light). Any of those can be a big problem.
I come here looking for schmeeptech and it's gone.
No one can truly know the pain I feel inside.
But it's good to see you here anyway! Welcome back!
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Why DID they fill those things with hydrogen?
Subject: Re: Command line sending, receiving and management of users
Where is the door command, so I can play "Global Thermonuclear War"?
Subject: Re: Command line sending, receiving and management of users
ALT-F4 will open the doors command to play games.
Subject: Re: Command line sending, receiving and management of users