Originally Posted by
damagecontrol
. . . there is a small natural lake right . . . it attracks a lot of bird life. I am always fearing a birdstrike when large aircraft land here.
I like birds with feathers too, but when it comes to the metal ones, the feathered ones must stay away... or on the ground.
Bird control take many forms. One is not to fly in the same airspace as the birds. For ground feeding birds, or lake ones come to that, the best thing is to let them feed as scaring them puts them in conflict with aircraft.
Many long lived birds become habituated to aircraft and will avoid flying in to aircraft. I have tens of thousands of birds feeding but the only bird strike we had was when a helicopter disturbed roosting geese at night.
Look around Heathrow (LHR) there are huge reservoirs and sewage farms within 3 miles with on just 3 miles from 09L. I am sure there is a risk here but equally that it is constrained.