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