Originally Posted by
rickair7777
And yes, the people who actually employ lasers as weapons/designators use the terms "lase", "lased", etc. BTDT.
In medicine we 'lase' things also.
As many of you recall I've been a minimizer of the effects of getting lased.
As (bad) luck would have it, after 10+ years without incident I was lased several weeks ago flying into Henderson... For those that haven't yet, it is NOT SUBTLE. You will definitely know you are being lased, the cockpit turned shimmering bright green, I near reflexively closed my eyes. I couldn't really make out where it was coming from and didn't really want to try to look, but I'd bet I could have gotten a general area if I looked out... I couldn't "see" the green through my closed eyes, so a couple times I opened them but it was still going on so I closed them again. I was on auto, hadn't started approach so that was good... Likely hand-held laser as couldn't really hold onto one spot well and lasted maybe 7 seconds total, then back to normal. Really really strange, not sure why anybody would want to do that. I didn't notice any "eye-burning" or any ill effects afterward.