Geese at 18000ft

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

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