Geese at 18000ft

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

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/Phot.../archive_3.htm

Cheers

Al

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

Pete

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/Phot.../archive_3.htm

Cheers

Al

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

Pete

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/Phot.../archive_3.htm

Cheers

Al

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

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...d.php?t=136279

-Paul

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...d.php?t=136279

-Paul

little bit of irony there eh?

Brad

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/Phot.../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?

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

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)