Geese at 18000ft

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Havent posted this for a while but it will make you think when you are
next flying commercial.

Way back in distant time I was having some fun on a wave flight out
of Minden when we saw 100's of Canada geese wave soaring. While we
were capped to FL18 there were lots of Geese above us in the FL19-20
range.

With the A320 in the Hudson imagine ploughing into these guys at 3-500
mph on the approach to RNO.

http://silentflight.com/P0000385.JPG

http://silentflight.com/P0000386.JPG

Full archive is here.

http://silentflight.com/Gliding/Photos/Archive_3/archive_3.htm

Cheers

Al

[vontresc]

On Jan 20, 11:58*am, " >
wrote:
> Havent posted this for a while but it will make you think when you are
> next flying commercial.
>
> Way back in distant time I was having some fun on a wave flight out
> of *Minden when we saw 100's of Canada geese *wave soaring. *While we
> were capped to FL18 there were lots of Geese above us in the FL19-20
> range.
>
> With the A320 in the Hudson imagine ploughing into these guys at 3-500
> mph on the approach to RNO.
>
> http://silentflight.com/P0000385.JPG
>
> http://silentflight.com/P0000386.JPG
>
> Full archive is here.
>
> http://silentflight.com/Gliding/Photos/Archive_3/archive_3.htm
>
> Cheers
>
> Al

Wow they don't get Hypoxic in the flight levels, or do they have O2
systems :-)

Pete

[David Salmon[_2_]]

They have been reported over Everest.
Dave


At 20:57 20 January 2009, vontresc wrote:
>On Jan 20, 11:58=A0am, "
>wrote:
>> Havent posted this for a while but it will make you think when you are
>> next flying commercial.
>>
>> Way back in distant time I was having some fun on a wave flight out
>> of =A0Minden when we saw 100's of Canada geese =A0wave soaring.
=A0While
>=
>we
>> were capped to FL18 there were lots of Geese above us in the FL19-20
>> range.
>>
>> With the A320 in the Hudson imagine ploughing into these guys at 3-500
>> mph on the approach to RNO.
>>
>> http://silentflight.com/P0000385.JPG
>>
>> http://silentflight.com/P0000386.JPG
>>
>> Full archive is here.
>>
>> http://silentflight.com/Gliding/Photos/Archive_3/archive_3.htm
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Al
>
>Wow they don't get Hypoxic in the flight levels, or do they have O2
>systems :-)
>
>Pete
>

[BT]

I was at FL220 one time in a B-52, just getting ready to start a low level
run and passed an Eagle going the other way. At least we thought it was an
eagle.. full grown, white head.. grew from a tiny spec to HUGE real quick.
BT

> wrote in message
...
> Havent posted this for a while but it will make you think when you are
> next flying commercial.
>
> Way back in distant time I was having some fun on a wave flight out
> of Minden when we saw 100's of Canada geese wave soaring. While we
> were capped to FL18 there were lots of Geese above us in the FL19-20
> range.
>
> With the A320 in the Hudson imagine ploughing into these guys at 3-500
> mph on the approach to RNO.
>
> http://silentflight.com/P0000385.JPG
>
> http://silentflight.com/P0000386.JPG
>
> Full archive is here.
>
> http://silentflight.com/Gliding/Photos/Archive_3/archive_3.htm
>
> Cheers
>
> Al

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Took one on the left prop spinner on a King Air one night years ago.
11:00 pm at NIGHT at 11,000'. Had no idea they also flew then...
Things that go bump in the middle of the night tend to wake one up.
Nice mess...

Steve

[sisu1a]

> I was at FL220 one time in a B-52, just getting ready to start a low level
> run and passed an Eagle going the other way. At least we thought it was an
> eagle.. full grown, white head.. grew from a tiny spec to HUGE real quick.

Don't know what altitude this happened at, but it was an eagle for
sure... (warning-animals WERE harmed in the making of this production)
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=136279

-Paul

[Brad[_2_]]

On Jan 20, 5:19*pm, sisu1a > wrote:
> > I was at FL220 one time in a B-52, just getting ready to start a low level
> > run and passed an Eagle going the other way. At least we thought it was an
> > eagle.. full grown, white head.. grew from a tiny spec to HUGE real quick.
>
> Don't know what altitude this happened at, but it was an eagle for
> sure... (warning-animals WERE harmed in the making of this production)http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=136279
>
> -Paul

little bit of irony there eh?

Brad

[Bruce]

vontresc wrote:
> On Jan 20, 11:58 am, " >
> wrote:
>> Havent posted this for a while but it will make you think when you are
>> next flying commercial.
>>
>> Way back in distant time I was having some fun on a wave flight out
>> of Minden when we saw 100's of Canada geese wave soaring. While we
>> were capped to FL18 there were lots of Geese above us in the FL19-20
>> range.
>>
>> With the A320 in the Hudson imagine ploughing into these guys at 3-500
>> mph on the approach to RNO.
>>
>> http://silentflight.com/P0000385.JPG
>>
>> http://silentflight.com/P0000386.JPG
>>
>> Full archive is here.
>>
>> http://silentflight.com/Gliding/Photos/Archive_3/archive_3.htm
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Al
>
> Wow they don't get Hypoxic in the flight levels, or do they have O2
> systems :-)
>
> Pete
Ground the lot of them, I say - busting class A, no oxygen and no
transponders.
What is the world coming to?

[John Bojack[_2_]]

> Ground the lot of them, I say - busting class A, no oxygen and no
> transponders.


Really! Who do they think they are.......glider pilots?

J4

[Al Eddie[_3_]]

At 00:31 21 January 2009, BT wrote:
>I was at FL220 one time in a B-52, just getting ready to start a >low
level run

Aw bless...

Low level run at FL220....!?

;o)

[[email protected]]

On Jan 20, 12:58*pm, " >
wrote:
> Havent posted this for a while but it will make you think when you are
> next flying commercial.
>
> Way back in distant time I was having some fun on a wave flight out
> of *Minden when we saw 100's of Canada geese *wave soaring. *While we
> were capped to FL18 there were lots of Geese above us in the FL19-20
> range.
>
> With the A320 in the Hudson imagine ploughing into these guys at 3-500
> mph on the approach to RNO.
>
> http://silentflight.com/P0000385.JPG
>
> http://silentflight.com/P0000386.JPG
>
> Full archive is here.
>
> http://silentflight.com/Gliding/Photos/Archive_3/archive_3.htm
>
> Cheers
>
> Al

A few years ago a friend and I made a short film about bird strikes
abatement at JFK airport.
Here it is on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVgCWo-EoiE
Perhaps I should have started a new thread for this?