dmcmurry
Filing Flight Plan
I've been wondering for a little while what my first posts would end up being, and as I was flying tonight I had an incident that I felt the need to share.
I was flying an approach into PHTO (Hilo, HI), when my cockpit was illuminated by a green laser (for anyone not aware this is highly illegal). I alerted the tower, and started describing the area in which the beam was coming from. I'm pretty sure this was the first time the controller at this tower had dealt with a laser incident because at first he wasn't sure why I was telling him about the laser, but when he caught on and got the laser report form out, he started asking questions about the laser while I was executing my circle for landing. At first I was answering his questions but when he was still trying to ask questions as I was rolling final I had to tell him to standby (What I wanted to do was yell at him that his inappropriate timing for questioning was just as bad a distraction as a laser to the face).
Has anyone else been on the bright end of a laser before? I'd like to hear your stories.
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I was flying an approach into PHTO (Hilo, HI), when my cockpit was illuminated by a green laser (for anyone not aware this is highly illegal). I alerted the tower, and started describing the area in which the beam was coming from. I'm pretty sure this was the first time the controller at this tower had dealt with a laser incident because at first he wasn't sure why I was telling him about the laser, but when he caught on and got the laser report form out, he started asking questions about the laser while I was executing my circle for landing. At first I was answering his questions but when he was still trying to ask questions as I was rolling final I had to tell him to standby (What I wanted to do was yell at him that his inappropriate timing for questioning was just as bad a distraction as a laser to the face).
Has anyone else been on the bright end of a laser before? I'd like to hear your stories.
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