Originally Posted by
bubbers44
Also double the chance of a bird strike in one of the engines. Maybe looking out the window more in VMC conditions would help more than banking when it is too late to avoid them.
Whilst there is nothing wrong with a good lokout in VMC, when flying IFR it is inevitable that the PF will be looking in for some of the time. It has also been mentioned that objects on a constant line of bearing will be less easily seen than ones with a changing angular displacement.
Then the combination of a climbing aircraft and birds in level flight makes a collision assessment it a difficult judgement.
The aircrat would have been some 1300 feet from collision at the 3 second point. Assume detection had been at 6 seconds it would have been at 2600 feet and possibly at the edge of visual detection range.
Anyway any solution must allow for night and IMC as well and so far radar would appear the best option.