It’s the most wonderful time of the year…unless you're an airline pilot, flying over a home bedazzled with holiday laser lighting that's pointing up at the sky. If that happens, you and your passengers could be in serious danger, because you could be distracted or temporarily blinded by the residential laser-light display.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which says it receives reports of such incidents each year from pilots. Thus, in what has become a holiday tradition, the FAA has issued a warning to homeowners with laser light displays to make sure those lights are NOT aimed skyward. The extremely concentrated beams of laser lights reach much farther than might be realized. People with laser-light displays that affect pilots will be asked to adjust them or turn them off. A refusal to do so could lead to a civil penalty.