Originally Posted by robdean
ChristiaanJ - it's on record that the birds were seen before impact and identified as such... I'm not sure Sully got as far as twenty-and-three before they hit though...
Thanks, my point entirely.
Now think about it.
They SAW them before impact, which is how they 'remembered' (sorry, there may be another better term for it) them seconds after impact and became fully aware of what happened.
Again, assuming you're even looking in the right direction (you know about peripheral vision, no?) try to go through how long your brain would take through "what's that" and "oh ****, looks like birds" and calling on all your 19,000 hours to devise a manoeuvre to avoid them .... give us a break, it's not three seconds.
CJ
PS: I'm not a physiologist or opthamologist, just an aeronautical engineer. But I have learned how to count on my fingers, or how to go "twenty and one, twenty and two, twenty and three" to assess time....