Dumb question

[flint4xx]

Having flown helicopters in pretty poor conditions, I would just add that if you are low and slow enough you can see and act accordingly, much like a bird flying at 20 knots or so.

 

[Timebuilder]

Kaman's post is the condensed version of the cat and duck method I promised to post a while back. I f you want to read the whole thing, It's in Richard Taylor's book Instrument Flying. He says the original author is unknown.

Migratory birds (and sea turtles for that matter) use a small sensory organ in their brains which is sensitive to magnetic fields. I believe it was originally discovered in the brain of a carrier pidgeon.

I have yet to see my first goose in the flight levels. How high have you seen them?

 

[eriknorth]

I wonder what would happen if NASA put a gyroscope in a bird's head...

 

[Timebuilder]

The gyroscope would fail, the bird would crash, and the bird's family would sue for $20 mil.

 

[eriknorth]

good answer...i guess the bird had too many squawks to stay in the air

 

[Timebuilder]

OUCH! Good one!

Maybe an engine failed, and he forgot to feather.....

 

[ILS JNKY]

birds

One day while doing touch and gos at KLEE we were comming in on 31, just turned to final and started to set up when all of a sudden, this big ugly brown bird leaped from the ground and was at 500ft it no time , wow>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

MAN waht a surprise????????

 

[Timebuilder]

That reminds me.

Last year, I was up with a student doing some night landing practice. The next day, I had the same plane first thing in the morning. The right wing strut had clearly become the last conscious sensation for a common starling, as several feathers were held to the strut by a now hardened substance. We never heard a thing. I'm sure the bird didn't, either.

 

[hobbsmeter]

From Guiness Re: High Flying Birds

Highest recorded altitude for a bird is 37 000 feet, where a vulture collided with an airliner over the Ivory Coast in 1973.