The General Accountability Office says the FAA, FBI and FDA need to get together to revive cooperation to stem the increasing scourge of laser attacks on aircraft. The three agencies disbanded their interagency working group five years ago and laser attacks have since spiked dramatically. The FDA is in there because for some reason it regulates lasers. The group disbanded in 2015 and between 2014 and 2021 laser strike reports almost tripled from 3894 to 9723.
I’ve been hit two times while on visual approaches to large airports in corporate jets. On both occasions we reported to TRACON and no follow up occurred (to our knowledge.) No “report forms” were offered or requested by any authority. I’m thinking that lasers might warrant licensing but have no confidence it could be implemented well with the flood of chineese lasers on the market.
Vote for more police to follow up on reports from control tower.
This fall is TossEmTime in many municipalities, your opportunity to dump anti-police council members.
Desirably one has an even logging button, or even just cockpit camera, to capture location.
Frequent victims may want what the US military developed for operations in Iraq - systems that pinpoint shooter from muzzle flash. Should be able to upgrade to cope with faster platform. (Getting approval for the automatic shoot-back feature might be a bureaucratic slog. :-o)