"The primary goal of the transformation is to make wildlife scarce in order to avoid collisions between wildlife and planes at the airport."
Sounds like a good goal to me!
My comments (IN CAPS) and my Bolding - not in original article.
FYI...
I agree. Making the land inhospitable to animals will cause them to go elsewhere. What do the animal rights nuts think.. that's the only trees and land in the entire world those critters can live on? Gimme a break. I do not recall seeing any endangered animals mentioned either.
This is a win/win all around... Saves Property, Human lives, AND the lives of birds which would get struck.
We had a birdstrike today, no damage. But last year, while inside the marker, a bird smacked the FO's window and cracked it right down the middle, by the time they pulled off the runway, it was shattered. Had the window shattered then, he would have been dead and the passenegers in jeopardy. In this case SMF is not moving, so the things near the field that attract birds need to be removed, period. Citing envirowhackism in this saving the birds over an MD-80 full of people on short final, is so typical of a whacko moonbat liberal tree hugger..
Uh, you fly out of Sacramento much, Dash?
This reads like a press release from the Sierra Club.
Dash - - You may want to mention that the Sacramento News and Review is to the left of the Sacramento Bee (which is to the left of Pravda).
(from http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19950922-0)
Narrative:
Boeing E-3B Sentry 77-0354 was military Boeing 707-derivative, a.o. equipped and AWACS system. The aircraft, operated by the US Air Force 962nd Airborne Air Control Sqn, 3rd Wing, was assigned call-sign Yukla 27 for a 6.2 hr training mission. At 07:43 Yukla 27 was holding short of runway 5, waiting for takeoff, when a Lockheed Hercules departed. This aircraft disturbed a flock of Canada geese. The Yukla 27 crew were not warned about this by the tower controller. At 07:45 they were cleared for takeoff and the throttles were advanced. As the plane rotated for lift-off numerous geese were ingested in the no. 1 and 2 engines resulting in a catastrophic no. 2 engine failure and a stalling no. 1 engine. The crew initiated a slow climbing turn to the left and began to dump fuel. The aircraft attained a maximum altitude of 250 feet before it started to descend. The plane impacted a hilly, wooded area less than a mile from the runway, broke up, exploded and burned.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Ingestion of Canada geese into the no. 1 and 2 engines. Two contributing factors were the fact that the 3rd Wing lacked an aggressive program to detect and deter geese; the preparations for the migration season of the bird hazard reduction working group (BHRWG) were insufficient. An earlier safety agency staff assistance visit (SAV) had misled the 3rd Wing to believe that they were prepared. The second contributing factor was the tower controllers failure to notify Yukla 27 or airfield management that geese were present on the infield.
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True. A bird strike is only reported if it causes damage or a 121 or 135 captain is covering hiney.
I've had a prop strike something small but with an awful lot of blood, innards (stuff my English relatives probably eat) and guano in it. I swear, the sum of the parts was great than the whole after kissing my propeller at 25/25. I also had a near miss with an eagle that was scavenging a crow in the middle of a runway -- some previous pilot's airkill.
Bummed me out to see that the symbol of our nation is a scavenger.
On the bright side, four more birds and I'm an ace.
I'm flying from a suburban drome where the hazards are deer, one very large and suicidal coyote, and flocks of geese. Letting the grass grow high makes the geese nervous and they split, but it would encourage the deer. The geese are a nightmare to encounter -- I know pilots that close their eyes and wait to be through the flock. They are not migrating as much because idiots feed them -- the geese, I mean, not the pilots.
I habitually touch down as slow as possible (remember the "v" is squared in the Kinetic Energy formula) and have yet to snag Bambi. Or even Mother Goose. But it's more luck than skill.
So they're gonna burn poor Yuki's home. My heart bleeds... maybe the environmentalists should move in. They all lay on the drama like they were Joan of Arc, let 'em make it happen.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Some people think that putting human life at risk is a perfectly acceptable, in fact necessary, alternative to re-configuring abandoned agricultural land that has become habitate for wildlife.