Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wolfala on December 24, 2009, 08:21:02 AM
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I was flying with a student last night down the Hudson River VFR corridor. I had taken the controls to show him something around ground zero - literally 5 seconds later a bird of some type hits the propeller and plows into the copilot windscreen. We landed at Teterboro NJ to a nice parade of Port Authority folks - the plane kinda looked like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho - blood on the tail, wind shield, antennas, wings. Audio starts around 9 minutes into the recording above.
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Video link: http://www.facebook.com/v/243718511213 (http://www.facebook.com/v/243718511213)
Audio link 9 minutes into it: http://www.cirruspilots.org/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files/6/5658.KTEB_2D00_Dec_2D00_24_2D00_2009_2D00_0030Z.mp3 (http://www.cirruspilots.org/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files/6/5658.KTEB_2D00_Dec_2D00_24_2D00_2009_2D00_0030Z.mp3)
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Glad ya'll got down safe must have been one big ******* bird.
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Glad your safe sir :salute
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Glad your safe! It's the reason my step father flew twins! :D
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Not sure if it's just me, but when I click on the audio link I don't hear anything.
Also, do you have air plane insurance that will pay for repairs?
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Not sure if it's just me, but when I click on the audio link I don't hear anything.
Also, do you have air plane insurance that will pay for repairs?
try a save link as
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Ouch! Glad you made it back to the ground without taking a bath.
As for the twin-engine... If the engines are propellers of some form (turbine or reciprocating) and you're forced to operate using only one engine, from what I understand you don't want to use much of any power from the remaining engine to prevent inducing a spin.
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Late in the Summer the blackbirds start to flock in the corn. I hit eighteen on one pass in August including three on the windshield. I was virtual IMC and had to pull up out of the pass. The loaders counted them as they disposed of the remains. It's my personal best to date.
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The Hudson River area's getting a bit of a reputation for bird strikes this year, eh? Glad you didn't have to ditch and swim.
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Glad y'all are safe :)
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A few years ago my dad and I hit a bird in a Bonanza. It hit the spinner, went inbetween all 3 prop blades, and smacked into the cylinders. OH GOD the stench was horrid. A few years later dad had one go thru the right side of a Tomohawk windshield while he was with a Student. He had a cut on his forehead, and I got to clean the inside of the plane out. THere was bird parts, blood and gore all over the inside, all Speed dried to the interior.
Glad ya'll got down safe.
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Got around to assembling the photos from last night and today.
Link to the photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=171797&id=656951213&l=0597ebfff2 (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=171797&id=656951213&l=0597ebfff2)
Link to this mornings video: http://www.facebook.com/v/244879146213 (http://www.facebook.com/v/244879146213)
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Glad that worked out for you bro. Didn't look like any serious damage--obviously good stuff getting down safe... :joystick:
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any chance you've got the video somewhere besides facebook? i kinda avoid facebook like the plague.
and VERY glad you were both ok.
merry christmas dude.
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It's 5th bird strike for this plane, right? Unless there is more i don't know about.
So you are official ACE now;-) :airplane: :salute
Dude im glad you are safe
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Boooh I bet the pacerr Bird did Ho
But 1st Glad that you landet save
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It's 5th bird strike for this plane, right? Unless there is more i don't know about.
So you are official ACE now;-) :airplane: :salute
Dude im glad you are safe
what a Xmas present!
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Ouch.... good thing that bird didn't check bird-proof rating of your windshield.
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Glad ya'll got down safe must have been one big ******* bird.
Are you sure there were no skydivers in the area? :devil
Wab
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Are you sure there were no skydivers in the area? :devil
Wab
maybe it was a stock broker who got depressed