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/Phot.../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?