Locating is rather easy, you get a rough location just by having the altitude, position, heading and inclination of the aircraft you can also see which directio

Locating is rather easy, you get a rough location just by having the altitude, position, heading and inclination of the aircraft you can also see which direction the beam is coming from so you can probably easily triangulate to a few blocks. The lasers are super visible from the ground at night so a call to ATC would get the police on the case quickly and they’ll track it down. Patrol cars can also spot those lasers without a reported strike and they’ll investigate. What surprises me is that the penalty is so low considering the potential impact of a laser strike, one would think the fine would be 10 times as much and the offense would include prison time.