Yessir, a few weeks ago.

I pick it up January. It needed a little lovin. Flap tracks, Seat track, and some odd and ends under the hood.

It'll be a nice upgrade from the Stinson 108 I have now. Poor gal will be neglected until I can sell her. She treated me well.

In the mean time, as I get lasered overseas, I long for the grass strips fly-ins, in my near future.

Cheers.

Hi all,

Had one last December around KILG while flying an Epsilon, turning crosswind to downwind got hit by a green beam, been a while since last one "last was while landing in KFLL with the 787 after 10 hours+ flight.
Same frustration always and "WTF" feeling where you wish to hit back. either cases nobody was to be found and confronted to it.

I operated mainly out of Asia where you can find dirt cheap to strong in my point of view laser for sale around the corner, easy to fall into kids of kids minded hands

Safe flights all.
Lio

I don't own a "powerful laser". I wouldn't even know where to buy such a device. Not inclined to do so anyway.
I do, however, carry one of those pen-sized green lasers ( pictured in an earlier post). If they are as bright as some people claim then they make a great emergency signalling device. Their low power precludes any danger to the eyes at ranges of more than a couple of feet.

Twice recently, doing night circuits with a 206 teaching a night rating, and flying an ILS into Brasilia. I consider it a rite of passage for night flying near urban areas these days.

I carry a Greatland Laser for signalling in my survival kit. Tested it by shining it at the control tower (had them on the phone, all was good).

Never been lasered but have had a bullet hole while working. Felt it ping and thought it was something let go in the seat. I was turning over a reserve where a person was cutting firewood with a chainsaw. I could tell by his body language he wasn't a happy boy. The next day between jobs I decided to have a bit of a look in the fuse, there was an entry hole in the floor and an exit hole out the top. Missing control cables by an inch and about 6' directly in line and behind the pilot seat. He needed a bit more lead
Contacted the police, they weren't interested saying "there were guns everywhere out there", it was a remoter area.
Contacted our aviation authority (CASA), bloke that I talked to said "Yeah, we used to get that all the time in Vietnam", last I heard of it.
Yet if you don't have a compass deviation card fitted correctly and dated they will ground the aircraft and issue a non-compliance.
Seems they have strange priorities about aviation safety.