Posted on 12/07/2008 5:00:15 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
That's a serious addiction to Adrenalin! LOL
We have owls on occasion. And they, at times, compete with the hawks for the mallard ducks in the yard.
I do’t have any ducks here, but I have tons of owls and hawks. I hear the owls up in my trees, but rarely see them. Watching the hawks during mating season is interesting because they seem to be dancing in the sky. I think the males are showing off how good they are at flying.
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Very cool.....especially that you have a front row seat. The hawks swoop down into the yard and hope to get a duck. Then they dine right there. Their table manners are horrible....feathers everywhere. And the magpies keep trying to take over, much to the hawks annoyance.
yeah..awesome visual too!
Sorry it took me so long to respond. Traffic in the corridors was always controlled. There were airways within the corridors that aircraft flew along. Also, there were navigational aids located in West Germany directly across the border from East Germany. The airways were drawn off of these navagational aids. For aircraft flying into Berlin as they got closer to the Berlin Control Zone (the 20 statute mile circle of airspace around Berlin) the controller could vector the aircraft for whatever airport they were landing at. If the aircraft were landing to the east then the corridors, especially the center corridor, pretty much aligned up with the final approach course to Tegel. We would then tell the aircraft to proceed direct to Tegel on the localizer.
But at all times aircraft were controlled. There were times when we would control aircraft outside of the corridors, either laterally or vertically. Usually, these deviations were for weather. We would have to coordinate with the Berlin Air Safety Center, they would coordinate with the Soviets. Permission was usually pretty much routine, especially for civil airliners.
A day late, but boy was that a determined rabbit!
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