I bought an old brickworks with 30 acres next to my house and have built a strip and use the old factory as a hangar. I'm surrounded by a nature reserve and a sand quarry. One day I asked the head guy from the reserve if the plane bothers or is a danger to the wildlife? His response “For f**k sake the birds are not stupid, they’re gonna get the f*ck out of your way!.

Now that is my kind of environmentalist.

Maybe you'd like to run that one by Sully and Skiles ?

Maybe the geese didn't anticipate the climb angle of the Airbus, and didn't have the speed to get out of it's way.

Usual unfounded rubbish
 

As soon as someone objects to any planning changes the first place they go is the environment, I can remember the introduction of red kites into Wycombe area.

As soon as this happend the usual suspects in the anti airfield community started telling the press that the aircraft were affecting the birds.

Twenty years on the reintroduction of the birds has been a great success dispite the alleged problems with aircraft.

Clearly a NIMBY with grasp any straw for publicity.

Well turns out he was wrong, hit one of them yesterday, broke my friggin landing light out on the wing, the little "bar steward" !

Utterly unbelievable. :rolleyes::ugh: