suddenly found themselves hurtling at a brick wall with 2 seconds to figure out what to do, yet managed to avoid it.
I am not so sure that "they avoided it", they went right through that "brick of wall"...
now if they were in IMC or if that "brick of wall" consisted of sparrows, okey.
but to hit the whole formation of huge geese ... on initiall climb speed.... in good VMC
I mean helloooo...!