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Old 5th Dec 2008, 23:30
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Ranger 1

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Falconry seems a good idea except it sometimes has a few problems.

Falcons cannot be flown in high wind, rain, poor visibility, or when the bird/s are moulting, the training involved is very time consuming and they cannot be just locked away at the end of the shift or be forgotten about when you go on holiday.

There is also the chance a Falcon may take a bird out, then carry it off the airfield to feed on it, then end up refusing to come back to the handler, until it has fully digested its prey, meanwhile if Falconry is the only means of control you have on your airfiled, the other birds are having a riot all over the airfield while the Falconer is trying to coax it back to his/her arm, that is if the handler can find it through its transponder signal.

One final and important thing to mention the Falcon may well become a Birdstrike statistic its self, this has happened
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