A goose at fl360????

[Dave Benjamin]

What's worse than a goose at 360 is some idiot in a glider in Class A airspace on the RAMMS arrival. Perhaps the goose was caught in some updrafts relating to convective activity?

What I really want to know is the fully laden weight of a European swallow.

 

[GoingHot]

Migratory birds can sense the Earth's magnetic field, and also navigate by stellar navigation (follow the stars and constellations and so forth). C

And I thought they used GPS.

I guess that blows my argument about why they don't fly in the clouds, (VFR-Only GPS).

 

[moving2vegas]

Oh Dave I'm quite sure you know all about the swallow.

 

[Lead Sled]

What's worse than a goose at 360 is some idiot in a glider in Class A airspace on the RAMMS arrival. Perhaps the goose was caught in some updrafts relating to convective activity?

During the annual Monarch butterfy migration it's not uncommon to find them caught in thermals - I've had them splat on the windshield in the low teens.

'Sled

 

[727gm]

I was flying eastbound that night @ FL330 over Colorado, had only fairly strong mountain wave activity.

 

[Dizel8]

Oh Dave I'm quite sure you know all about the swallow.

Even the african kind