Originally Posted by slackie
...with sheep on strips...
That's one beastie you
have to
positively manage -and correctly- if they're on your strip. There's still reference to farm strips, stock and what you can/can't do in the regs I think too.
If you have to clear sheep, start from one side of the strip (usually the side with the least number to be shifted) and work them across to the main mob, leaving your strip clear. Do NOT split the mob into smaller mobs... they'll wait until you're nose-high in the flare before they decide to join their mates across the strip. Consequences are obvious.
Done properly, there's no reason any should be sufficiently spooked to get jammed up in fences. If one or two do get that way, do the decent thing and go sort them out.
Cattle beast can behave unpredictably too I believe... a long time ago I knew a pilot that had been
thru 3 of them... on seperate occasions. No experience of them myself so somebody else may be able to advise how best to handle them.