Lasers still expand as the beam travels. The dot when you aim at your hand is smaller than the dot on the wall 10 feet away. By the time you aim at something a

Lasers still expand as the beam travels. The dot when you aim at your hand is smaller than the dot on the wall 10 feet away. By the time you aim at something a thousand or two feet in the air, it's pretty close to filling the cockpit window. Plus it goes through helicopter door or front window plexi, which has a diffraction effect and will scatter the beam even more within the cockpit. You absolutely can see where it hits, there's enough particulates in the air to show the beam itself.