> And the FAA won't become involved unless you're pointing them skyward. The point here is that 'skyward' is where the laser's beam goes when you're trying to

> And the FAA won't become involved unless you're pointing them skyward. The point here is that 'skyward' is where the laser's beam goes when you're trying to aim it at a camera up on a pole. It's practically impossible to point a non-fixed position laser at something a non-trivial distance higher than you without spilling a large amount of laser beam into whatever happens to be behind your intended target; which is very often the sky.