Notams

[Pull To Guns]

Yeah, I do read them. Last month it was jackals!

A0739/10 NOTAMR A0325/10Q)VABF/QFAXX/IV/NBO/A/000/999/2105N07902E005
A)VANP (INDIA, an alternate AD we use))
B)1006030555
C)1012312359 EST
E)PIG MENACE OBSERVED IN THE OPR AREA. PILOTS TO EXER CTN WHILE LDG/TKOF

Add 15 minutes holding fuel or get the BBQ grill fired up in case of a pig strike?

 

[propsarebest]

So on 1/1/11 the pig menace will end. What does a menacing pig exactly do?

 

[deltabobo]

For the longest time, UAFM/FRU had a NOTAM that stated: "Large, soaring raptors reported in the vicinity of the aerodrome; use caution."

 

[tomgoodman]

Pig menace

They seem to target F-16s....

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-06-09/news/mn-6423_1_wild-pigs

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-06-15/news/mn-4307_1

 

[Pull To Guns]

A New One!

From Athens, Greece

A0999/10 NOTAMN
Q)LGGG/QFAHX/IV/NBO/A/000/999/3756N02356E005
A)LGAV
B)1006010001 C)1007312359
E)CONCENTRATION OF BIRDS INCLUDING GULLS, FALCONS, HARRIERS, HERONS, SWALLOWS AND SWIFTS IN THE VICINITY OF THE AIRPORT.
CAUTION ADVISED.

The text I bolded could have been omitted and I STILL would have understood. The observer must have been a member of the Audubon Society!

What's the importance of the species at 600KTS closing speed!

I can see it now: "Hey Achilles....hard left...lets miss the harriers and take our chances with the swallows!"

What would Sully do?

 

[Pull To Guns]

Geez, it just occurred to me that there have been aircraft named after every one of those birds unnecessarily specified in the NOTAM. Some kind of Greek secret code perhaps?!?! I have chills!

Oh, look at the time....off to bed!

 

[WalterSobchak]

What would Sully do?

Plow right through them and plop it into the gulf.

 

[10nCLR]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/18/vulture_menace/