[HiTech RedNeck]

It has puzzled me long how such a pinpoint light can be at all likely to get into the very tiny target which is the pupil of a pilot’s eye, at distances of thousands of feet, and when most laser pointers aren’t focused to better than across a room. Does the windshield spread it out, like a dazzle?

[Neidermeyer]

I don’t get it either ,, just not enough power or focus for it to be a real problem... (I am a MEI pilot) ...

[Gorzaloon]

It has puzzled me long how such a pinpoint light can be at all likely to get into the very tiny target which is the pupil of a pilot’s eye, at distances of thousands of feet, and when most laser pointers aren’t focused to better than across a room

At that distance, it's no longer a pinpoint. The divergence is nice regarding laser gunsights, because the dot size increases with distance, but because of the distance still looks like a small dot on the (Smaller apearing with distance) target to the shooter.