A Dangerous Practice

   The ubiquitous laser pointer. Great for boardroom presentations. As a scaled down version, it's great to get your cat moving. Not so great when people aim the beam at in flight aircraft. Which has been happening quite a bit in Regina this year.
   In fact, police and the airport authority are reporting 12 incidents where flight decks have been "painted" with the devices, up from 5 in 2012.
   To say the practice is dangerous is an understatement. Laser pointers, even low-powered ones, can cause vision damage or even blindness if shone into someones eyes. If that someone happens to be the pilot of an aircraft, large or small, it could be enough to cause a loss of control, and possibly a crash.
   There are stiff fines and a prison sentence for anyone convicted.

TTFN