Just an SLF but it's a good report, it's evident that until this one there wasn't a great deal of advice on what to do in the event of a birdstrike at that stage of flight and the aircraft manual was updated following the incident with the emphasis to consider continuing the landing if you were still likely to make it.
Also good to see that Ryan policy allowed for manual flight, if that still the same now, one would hope so given the amount of recent botched landing attempts where some crews lack basic skills due to always using the automatics.