OT: Speed Cams

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

>> Can't help but wonder what that might do to landing pilots too.
Probably nothing...
Not to discredit your statement in any way, but to clarify the aviation 
detail:
First, the light impulse will be too small, too far and too out of the way 
to be a concern, the landing pilot will be focus on runway and instruments. 

Pilots are also used to strobe lights.
They have them on their airplane, other airplanes, some mark the way to the 
runway with the "rabbit", and many runways have strobe lights at the 
threshold to differentiate them from the environment. 

I hate the cams too...   :)
Enrique A. Troconis
Computer Geek for a living, Commercial Pilot/Flight Instructor by addiction. 

 

James Lee Bell writes: 

> der.hans wrote:
>> [1] The photo radar flashes can cause a white out effect on the driver
>> when they go off. This is a huge problem for motorcyclists as it blinds
>> them for a second and worse blinds the car drivers near them[3]. I have
>> even had my cabin white out due to a photo radar flash at dusk while I
>> was on an access ramp waiting to get on the freeway. My eyes are just
>> fine. Photo radar flashes are unsafe.
> 
> I realize we're shutting this thread down, but I had to reiterate this
> one point of der hans: Those flashes make it just as unsafe as the
> speeders tripping them. That one on west-bound I10 at the end of the Sky
> Harbor runways has flashed in my eyes twice (others tripping it). The
> first time nearly incapacitated me with immediate onset of migraine
> headaches. I didn't make it to the 51 interchange before I had to pull
> over and puke my guts out. The location is right after the merge from 17
> split, so the conscientious driver is monitoring the mergers, looking in
> that direction towards your mirror, and bang. Can't help but wonder what
> that might do to landing pilots too.
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