-- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
If anyone finds themselves outdoors tonight, on the west side of the valley near the E Center, cast your gaze toward the Capitol Hill area on Salt Lake's north bench. Ann and I will be conducting our "laser visibility" activity tonight at about 8- ish. You may be able to see my beam if you are near the Capitol grounds or the area above and west of there, below Ensign peak.
For a Class IIIA, that's probably too far. 3.5 kilometers is FAA tested "no effect" limit (without optical aids). See Tables 3 and 4 in: http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/observed/Glptst/discuss.htm... Chuck, not to put a damper on your activities and enthusiam - which I respect immensely - but since you live in a landing corridor and are projecting across the 5-7 kilometer FAA "laser free" zone around SLC Int'l Airport, technically, what you are doing might violate FAA flight orders. Federal Aviation Admin. Dec. 30, 2004. Advisory Circular No. 70-1,Outdoor Laser Operations. << at http://www.faa.gov/pilots/laser/ accessed 10/2005 >> FAA Order 7400.2E, Outdoor Laser Operations. Chap. 29, in Procedures for Handling Airspace Matters (June 3, 2004) << http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/AIR/INDEX.HTM and http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/AIR/chapter_29.htm accessed 1/2005
Just want to give you the heads up. - Kurt P.S. - I live in the Avenues, so I'll stick a pair of binos on Ensign around 8:00PM. __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com