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Okay, I'll bite. If we see a bird, or
should I say, by the time we see a bird, is there actually useful, effective
manuveurs that can be implements or is it strickly a wait-n-see regarding the
outcome. I've not had any strikes but the encounter happens so fast, it
seems hard to believe that one can be assured that the manuveur one makes will
avoid the hit, instead of ensuring you do. However, I am definitely in
favor of ducking!!!
It is surprisingly common for two cars to
collide in a near empty parking lot...and those fools are only working in
2-D.
Chuck Jensen
In a message dated 2/6/2007 7:24:33 P.M. Central Standard Time, 5zq@cox.net
writes:
Interesting stuff, Scott. A little late, but still interesting
:-).
Bill and Sue,
Au contraire, mon amis. Perhaps the outcome would have been different had
you read and memorized all the titillating details when the article was
first published, then changed your "Impending Bird Strike" emergency
checklist. Such a checklist should always be in the hands of the
co-pilot, highlighted for AGL read outs and ready to assist the FP on impact
avoidance (or post strike cleanup). I know that age is catching up and
information retention is being crowded out by images of the "good old days", but
here one must be encouraged to engage in recurrent training and simulated
bird attacks in order to stay atop one's game. Shutting one's
eyes and pulling on the stick whilst voicing the phrase "circular
letter excrement" just isn't the proper response. Lancair pilots fly
a higher line than that.
Grayhawk the irrelevant.
We just keep pecking away at safety.
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