Birds at Altitude

"BTIZ" wrote in message
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Had to ride through a 4 engine approach once... and they were all on the
same side..

What's the minimum number of engines required to keep it aloft? Probably
different number if they are all on one side vs split between both rights, I
guess...

"BTIZ" wrote in message
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I dodged or rather the bird dodged.. appeared to be an Eagle, Soaring at
FL200 in the mid west, I was in a B-52.. it would have made an ugly mess if
we had hit.

I've seen them that high over the Rockies, but never over the mid west.

Do birds typically stay low, or have I just been lucky until now?

Go see "Winged Migration"... two hours of nothing but birds flying, from
a bird's eye view. They go pretty high.

Jose
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Judah wrote:
What's the highest altitude that you ever saw a bird swoop past your plane?

The other day I was flying at 5000' MSL, over land that was mostly about
1000' (so 4000' AGL) and saw a flock of birds, hawks of some sort I think,
one of which came close enough to make me quite nervous (although from the
way he was flapping I think he was much more nervous than I was).

I don't think I've ever seen birds above 3000' MSL / 2500' AGL or so before
and I was pretty surprised...

Do birds typically stay low, or have I just been lucky until now?
over 10,000 (about 3000 AGL) feet Climbing out of Cody, WY headed to
Yellowstone.

Michelle P

What's the highest altitude that you ever saw a bird swoop past your plane?

I've seen snow geese in Texas above 4,000 feet AGL.

Migrating birds are known to fly much higher than that--well up into the
flight levels.

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM

I remember a P210 in the shop for a replacement windshield.
The pilot reported hitting an eagle at 14,000 over western
Kansas. There was a lot of damage to the airframe, luckily
the strike was on the top of the cowling on the right side
and the big bird missed the pilot. It also left about 1/3
of the windshield in front of the pilot.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

"Judah" wrote in message
. ..
| What's the highest altitude that you ever saw a bird swoop
past your plane?
|
| The other day I was flying at 5000' MSL, over land that
was mostly about
| 1000' (so 4000' AGL) and saw a flock of birds, hawks of
some sort I think,
| one of which came close enough to make me quite nervous
(although from the
| way he was flapping I think he was much more nervous than
I was).
|
| I don't think I've ever seen birds above 3000' MSL / 2500'
AGL or so before
| and I was pretty surprised...
|
| Do birds typically stay low, or have I just been lucky
until now?

"Judah" wrote in message

What's the highest altitude that you ever saw a bird swoop past your
plane?

I hit a bird one night at 9500 over Long Island sound in a 402.
Clarification: I presume it was a bird - I saw nothing, just heard a very
loud BANG as something caromed off the windshield.

It could have been my buddy chucking an empty beer can out of the window
while flying over the Sound.

("DeLoon DeLoon" wrote)
It could have been my buddy chucking an empty beer can out of the window
while flying over the Sound.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/month.asp
NTSB Reports - Aviation Accidents

'Cessna 402 slamming into a house' - which at the time of the accident, was
being used as a day-care for crippled blind orphans.

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of
this accident as follows:

DeLoon DeLoon suggesting to his buddy he throw a beer can out the window of
an aircraft. Deloon DeLoon supplying the beer. DeLoon DeLoon failing to take
into account his friend's diminished mental capacity. A contributing factor
was the lack of suitable friends available for DeLoon DeLoon to play with.


Montblack

Judah wrote:
What's the highest altitude that you ever saw a bird swoop past your plane?


Turkey Vulture at 5500' MSL while in the practice area south of
Phoenix.

It was really not that big a deal but at the time, I was a 23- hour
student pilot who was just about to get to the break in a departure
stall and was very nose high when it went *over* me.

Big, black silouette had me convinced we'd just missed another plane...

Jay B