Hit a deer on takeoff roll

[TOOL CRIB]

Those Michigan deer, I tell ya...all black with big yellow numbers on their side. Usually you can see them coming in a parking lot or on a football field. But on a runway...they just blend right in. I've always lucked out and got the ones with X's on them instead of numbers, and just assumed the runway was closed...

Yellow numbers on a runway? Maybe in Detroit with the smog?!

Anyway the important question was, being in North Dakota and all, did you (the original poster) eat the dang deer for dinner?

 

[J.C.Airborne]

Yellow numbers on a runway? Maybe in Detroit with the smog?!

Anyway the important question was, being in North Dakota and all, did you (the original poster) eat the dang deer for dinner?

No...apparently i only got his ears and tail. They never found the deer.

 

[Photoflight]

I was landing at a podunk airport in OK a few years back and about 8 hogs were on the runway...I'm glad I saw em, those things a fairly stout....glad to hear yourok.

 

[cj610]

A few years back, a person hit a deer at Ann Arbor Airport(MI) with a PA-28. It was just before hunting season(Bow and Arrow). The joke was...it was the first deer taken with an Arrow that year.

 

[Northern Lights]

I hit a deer tonight on takeoff roll in a pa-28. Right strut is smashed to bits and the leading edge will need some work but other than pretty mild damage. Be careful out there guys when landing at night. no runway is always safe. The airport i landed on is tower controlled and has high fences around it. Class D airspace.

Glad you're ok. So afterwards did you have to have a little chat with DS?

 

[RipCurl]

Glad you're ok. So afterwards did you have to have a little chat with DS?

Did my multi with him... that dude is THOROUGH.

 

[Northern Lights]

Did my multi with him... that dude is THOROUGH.

Me too. I had to redo the W+B for our flight because it was .44 pounds off. Not 44, but point 44, as in less than half a pound. Do you know what weighs .44 pounds in a SEMI? The fuel dipsticks that are attached to the fuel caps.

I passed, though. If I didn't redo the math, I'm sure that I would have failed.

 

[J.C.Airborne]

Glad you're ok. So afterwards did you have to have a little chat with DS?

I had a few conversations but mostly i just filled out an OHR report...they treated it pretty much like a bird strike and didnt require a drug test or alcohol test. Apparently all lights are now required to be operative at night even though the MEL says they dont. Good chance this was enacted because of this incident.

 

[garf12]

how about this little collision, ummm wow!

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=777869

 

[ackattacker]

how about this little collision, ummm wow!

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=777869

People, don't click on that link if you don't like seeing blood. That is gruesome.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

how about this little collision, ummm wow!

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=777869

That's insane!!!!!!!