Imagine a pilot sees a bright light shining at their plane. They tell the people on the ground, and then special cameras on the ground act like super-eyes to pinpoint exactly where that light came from on a map. Sometimes, police helicopters with heat-vision cameras help too. All the grown-ups work together like detectives to figure out who is shining the light to keep the airplanes safe.
With mathematics. Ground controls, security assets and even planes in some cases can determine the incoming trajectory of the laser.
It then becomes clear that the laser’s degree is estimated. With plane’s position, laser trajectory and some basic math, you can draw a circular area on map for whereabouts of the laser’s source.
Most of the time they can’t locate. It happens quick and the perpetrator moves on.
But sometimes people on the ground report it and if enough do, they can triangulate in on the suspect. Some aircraft have cameras and software they can help pinpoint a laser beam origination. Some airport areas have ground detection systems to help detect and pinpoint the location. If the person stays there long enough and keeps doing it, the LEO who are searching can eventually catch them in the act. But most often if someone does it quickly and moves on, they simply don’t get caught.
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Imagine a pilot sees a bright light shining at their plane. They tell the people on the ground, and then special cameras on the ground act like super-eyes to pinpoint exactly where that light came from on a map. Sometimes, police helicopters with heat-vision cameras help too. All the grown-ups work together like detectives to figure out who is shining the light to keep the airplanes safe.
With mathematics. Ground controls, security assets and even planes in some cases can determine the incoming trajectory of the laser.
It then becomes clear that the laser’s degree is estimated. With plane’s position, laser trajectory and some basic math, you can draw a circular area on map for whereabouts of the laser’s source.
Most of the time they can’t locate. It happens quick and the perpetrator moves on.
But sometimes people on the ground report it and if enough do, they can triangulate in on the suspect. Some aircraft have cameras and software they can help pinpoint a laser beam origination. Some airport areas have ground detection systems to help detect and pinpoint the location. If the person stays there long enough and keeps doing it, the LEO who are searching can eventually catch them in the act. But most often if someone does it quickly and moves on, they simply don’t get caught.
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Turns out it’s pretty easy to visually track it. That in tandem with police make it pretty easy to track down whoever’s shining the laser.
There was this stupid kid in the UK that used a laser on air planes, eventually a police helicopter was launched to find out where from…
The stupid kid began flashing it on the helicopter, so that was an easy find.