Driving off birds using acft radar
Hi Guys, in one of my recent line verification, the TRE told me something I had never heard before (I have been flying for 35 years now !) ...
The statement was: " ... you can use your airborne radar to drive off birds in the vicinity of the airport ... claiming that the birds "feel" the waves and run away ! ".
For me it does not make any sense. I do not know any animal in the earth (including us) that would be able to "feel" electromagnetic (radio) waves. In the other hand, if this statement has a minimum chance to be true it would be written in the radar's manual, I think !.
Thinking a little bit more, at airports we have ATC radars (mainly primary ones), ground radars and meteorological radars and if this would be true the birds would not be a problem at all !
Does anybody heard this before ? Any suggestion is appreciated !
Last edited by levm; 10th Oct 2013 at 15:56.