I've only skim read the previous 50 odd pages so I don't know if this has come up yet. 2 Aircraft in 3 months brought down by birds. Ive had loads of birdstrikes over the last few years not to mention the ones I don't know about and the ones that I only just missed. Its going to happen again. What ideas do people have to control bird populations near airports. I actually killed the airport hawk in Finland last year when I hit it in the flare. Current bird control procedures clearly are not working.
Whats the point in all the rest of the precautions we take when I can be taken out by 6 geese?
I don't know. Aural systems? More vehicle runs up the runway? One suggestion ive made many times is that some of the regional airports I go into keep the frickin' grass shorter on the field so a large flock can't be hidden, only to rise up as the other bloke calls V1.
This has made me much more bird aware. And I mean the flying kind.