On Aug 20, 8:24*pm, brian whatcott wrote:
On 8/20/2010 5:41 PM, Mxsmanic wrote:

"Speedbird 204, traffic your two o'clock, one mile, FL350, giant vulture with
3-meter wingspan, report in sight":

http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/p...-air-traffic-c...

Hmmm lessee: it takes me 10 seconds to say that warning: if an aircraft
is going maybe M0.86 oh let's say 600 mph - by the time the pilot looks
out, the bird is almost a mile behind. Hopefully a 5 mile warning would
be better - but things are really hard to see at that distance....

B

My favorite caution happened at AVP (Scranton PA) a bunch of years
ago. If memory serves I was #2 and ready. The SEL ahead of me took off
and reported to the tower there was a turtle crossing the runway a
thousand feet from the threshold.

The tower said something like "Thank you. Ah, Mooney XXX, position and
hold, caution wake turbulence behind crossing turtle traffic."

Among the real concerns at AVP, by the way, are not turtles but deer
on the runway, especially at night. That at least was true years ago,
it may be that problem is under control now.