[QUOTE=White-Light;164912]@Beamann, you talk of pilots being blinded but in actual fact I think we're nearly always talking flash blinded here as it would take a laser far more powerful than a pointer in most instances to expose a pilot to any kind of un-eye safe levels of laser light due to the distances involved between aircraft and pointer and the divergence of the beam.
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Here are some numbers, I'm being a bit conservative on the initial beam quality:
532 nm
1 watt
2 milliradian
1 mm diameter at source.
Visual correction factor, .88
NOHD 106 Meters
SZED 467 Meters
CZED 1420 Meters
LFED 4300 Meters
Steve
Last edited by mixedgas; 09-24-2010 at 16:15.
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