Flying thru the Luxor Sky Beam?

Factual Questions
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Of course. I can’t believe this didn’t occur to me. I’ve been here over twenty years. This is taking longer than I thought

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Sure – if the beam isn’t vertical, everyone can see it. A vertical beam would be visible in the smoke, of course, but the pilot wouldn’t be dazzled by it. Likewise for an airliner – none of the windows let the pilots see vertically downward.

Wonder if there are enough particulates at 35000 feet for the Luxor beam to be side-view visible on a cloudless night.

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Particulates like dust & pollution are pretty rare above 30K’ and more often above 25K.

But thin clouds of ice crystals = cirrus are common above 25K all the way up to the stratosphere & a bit beyond.

Cirrus does a great job of scattering visible light.