Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wolfala on November 11, 2007, 01:03:59 AM
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Had a midair with a Seagull today. If the poor guy were 2 feet to the left of where he hit I would probably be picking the windshield from my forehead.
(http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/wolfala/SR-20%20damage/th_MVI_1996.jpg) (http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/wolfala/SR-20%20damage/?action=view¤t=MVI_1996.flv)
Here's a few links to other guys who had some similar encounters. It could've been a lot worse. The photos were from Buzzards.
(http://www.cirruspilots.org/uploaded_images/3-199959-IMG_3512.JPG)
(http://www.cirruspilots.org/uploaded_images/3-294340-airplanevsbuzzard7.28.06018.jpg) (http://www.cirruspilots.org/uploaded_images/3-294338-portside7.28.06008.jpg)
(http://www.cirruspilots.org/uploaded_images/3-294337-insideportcowl7.28.06031.jpg)
(http://www.cirruspilots.org/uploaded_images/3-294336-airplanevsbuzzard7.28.06005.jpg)
(http://www.cirruspilots.org/uploaded_images/3-294335-airplanevsbuzzard7.28.06040.jpg)
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Oh man, wasnt that the same cowling you complimented the wife on cleaning?
I dinged a seagull in 1989, it hit me from below on landing, hitting the prop and made for a helluva mess under the plane. As I was just over the I-95 when this happened, I've forever wondered if someone got a windshield full of purree'd seagull.
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Luckily the photos weren't mine - mine was the video. The photos were other guys - sadly.
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Do you have hunting license? thats second this year.............
I think your behavior should be reported to PETA
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Glad you're ok-Big enough bird coulda caused a real problem.
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Nice shot of the feathers stuck in the cylinder heads...:rofl
Send me your email when you get a chance. I seem to have misplaced it.
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Kinda reminds me of a story my father told me once. He was a flight engineer on the C-5 Galaxy when he was in the Air Force.
Anyway he said they were on final to Dover AFB back in 85-86 time frame and took a goose right in the wind screen. Dad said he looked forward just in time to see it hit. The co-pilot who was a rookie turned on the wipers before anyone else could tell him not to and smeared blood and guts all over the window. He said they flew a missed aproach, went around and made an intsrument landing. Evidently the pilot asked the fire dept not to hose the plane down so the co-pilot could go out there and clean it.
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just out of curiosity, I can't imagine the repair cost being too cheap, does your airplane insurance cover something like that. Much like an auto insurance covering you for hitting a deer?
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Sure thats what you saw on your FE.....:p
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For the photos with the smashed cowling and wing - insurance would pick that up. Also depends on your deducatible. The strike I had in the video was relatively minor, so I need some touchup paint and maybe a wet sander. The other guys, the cowling would be north of $4000. The wing is a different matter. That guy was down for months while Cirrus had to engineer a fix.
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Seagull: You NOOB ace pilot! Skilless DWEEB!!!1
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Originally posted by Latrobe
Seagull: You NOOB ace pilot! Skilless DWEEB!!!1
:D
LOL!
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Glad you're OK.
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Do you get to paint lil black seagull silhouttes on the side of the cockpit?
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Originally posted by Vulcan
Do you get to paint lil black seagull silhouttes on the side of the cockpit?
:lol
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Originally posted by Vulcan
Do you get to paint lil black seagull silhouttes on the side of the cockpit?
soon.....
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I was flying into Eau Claire WI one fall day in an Apache, and as I turned downwind to base, a freaking big buzzard whizzed right by the aircraft. Sure got my attention.
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We fly BFM against the birds around Sheppard AFB all the time. Something about this region (probably the river and all the agro) attracts not only the usual turkey vultchers, but also thousands of little blackbirds and even the occasional swarm of seagulls.
We get a couple dozen birdstrikes every year. Luckily we haven't lost any planes to birdstrikes recently but we just fly too many sorties to avoid them all. 500 ft and 210 kts for T-37s, 410 kts (I think) for T-38s, doesn't give you much time to react. It's slightly amusing on occasion to see a formation of 2 tweets on initial break away from each other and start maneuvering wildly as they avoid a dozen buzzards circling around 3 mile initial 1000 ft up. They have an uncanny ability to figure out exactly where we fly the most, and circle there.
Oh yea, I've also seen more geese in the last 7 months here than I saw in my entire last assignment here. It's been a wet year and certain populations are recovering after being nearly wiped out, but with geese if you hit one then chances are you're going to hit a half dozen all at once because of their formations and the altitudes they fly.
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eagl,
I'll be down in Iowa Park next weekend (at least I am planning on it right now).
Might be fun to meet a fellow AH'er. Let me know if you're interested.
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Sorry eddiek, I will be out of town next weekend. Thx for the notice though :) Maybe next time.