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I am just thinking that if people actually want to fix the problem. A similar situation applied to drunk driving. Yes, it was illegal for a long time but what really raised awareness of how stupid this was was massive public outreach by groups like MADD combined with toughening the laws. It has...

Being a researcher I of course think - how could one study this? @rotorwrench you might know and be interested. Is there a database of reported and/or prosecuted incidents one can access?

I certainly would never point one at an aircraft. That is mostly because I know it could seriously mess up the flight deck. Most people don’t want to seriously hurt others. But about 5% are sociopaths who do and we need some form of organized self defense to protect the rest of us from them...

Some articles of interest. Though nothing that I find on frequency and motivations. I suspect understanding the latter may be the best way to design a program to reduce this. I think it will only become more common as these devices become more common and powerful...

The problem I see with severe punishment is that I believe generally certainty of punishment is a better deterrent than severity, So the question is - why do people do this? Is there a study about this out there? I have occasionally pointed lasers at things for amusement. It is sort of fun...

No I have not. The closest thing I can think of personally is people throwing things over the edge of a cliff while you are climbing. Quite angering and potentially dangerous. But then one is engaged in a sport where things do occasionally come falling down the cliff. To warrant 6 months in...

This whole thing seems like a typical federal government waste of time and energy. That sort of attack stopped working 53 minutes after it was first employed. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2024/may/01/tsa-finalizes-flight-training-security-program

Hmm. 6 months with no actual problems or injuries… https://www.airguide.info/ohio-men-sentenced-for-targeting-oshp-pilots-with-laser-and-led-spotlight/

Apparently there is a podcast dedicated to this subject - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chasing-earhart/id1645810327

https://apnews.com/article/3df4ebd69fed235e5100cb78c8ee8983

Was a great day for soaring with good marker Cu. Looking south along the Palo Verde mountains. Hidden Valley airport to the right and Millar airport to the left. Looking north along the Sierra Estrella. The white spot on the main ridge to the right is called the "White Spot" by the locals...

Interesting - though I am always skeptical of this sort of claim. https://thedebrief.org/nasa-veterans-propellantless-propulsion-drive-that-physics-says-shouldnt-work-just-produced-enough-thrust-to-defeat-earths-gravity/

How old is Dan Gryder? Over 60 presumably as a retired airline captain. Seeing this sort of behavior at this age always makes me think of oncoming dementia.

Next attempt at exploration might be late 2024 or early 2025. https://nypost.com/2024/04/19/us-news/what-would-recovery-of-amelia-earharts-long-lost-plane-look-like/

One minor nit. The phrase “dead reckoning” likely did not come from “deduced” but more likely from “dead right” and similar expressions, though this is a commonly repeated explanation. https://aeroxplorer.com/articles/before-gps-how-did-pilots-navigate-in-the-early-days-of-aviation.php

Related - https://archive.is/6RDh2

Update - I tried again online a few weeks later and still not working. Then. Month or so later received a printed copy in the mail. Filled it out though half the questions don’t apply to gliders.

Copyright at end says 1988. Apparently an episode from a TV show at the time. Just around 13:00 that is Les Horvath flying near the Sierra Estrella and the Estrella sailport. That is sort of my home gliderport. Les founded it with his brother in 1969. A lot of this is shot at Estrella actually.

I have read the cockpit transcripts. It strikes me that these junior pilots were not very well trained and were basically clueless about what was going on. Are we not all taught that if the plane is stalling you lower the angle of attack to get the wing flying from about lesson 3 or so? Then...

I agree that the evidence points strongly at pilot suicide / murder. I don’t know that we will ever know for sure. It’s an awfully big area where it may be. I suspect there may be some wreckage even decades from now. It is cold and deep there.