When it isn't hippo's........
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 1:40 pm
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Last time I had to chase anything worthwhile off the landing strip was a giraffe and her calf at Shamwari in 2002. Hitting a mommy giraffe in a Cessna 210 wouldn't have been funny for giraffe, calf or aircraft. Biggest animals I have seen here in the UK are the mad March hares that seem impervious to the threat of being minced by props, wheels and the like. Mind you there is the right of way across the grass strip at Clacton and once had to go around due to pig headed walkers but one doesn't go to Clacton by choice. Tis a silly place and very ugly too!Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 9:31 amIt is a huge problem here on the strips in the Delta. The guides drive down the strip before an aircraft arrives to clear it. Then the aircraft flies over the strip to check it but it is all pointless. At any time any animal can run out of the bush across the strip. Have a friend who wrecked the starboard landing gear on a warthog. Had to go around and land on two wheels. Did a good job. He was the chief pilot though. It was a piss take for years.
I once had to abort twice on take off for a dog on the runway at Dar es Salaam. Left to right on first attempt then he came back the other way on the second attempt. We were pushing brake temperatures on the third attempt. To be honest I do not know why I aborted he probably would not have done any damage to the aircraft. Just a rug on the runway.
PP help me out here. The last time I saw an American turtle was when I was doing one of those bus tours at the Kennedy Space Centre. It was crossing the road and wasn't fussed by the traffic. Are they really turtles (i.e. water adapted creatures) or are they tortoises that have bulked up on steroids and weight lifting?PHXPhlyer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 4:43 pmMonument Valley, Utah.
Unfenced one way dirt strip.
Horses, cattle, sheep, drunk Indians intoxicated Native Americans.
One C207 was hit by a horse. Ran into the aft fuselage just foward of the stabilizer. Horse survived. Pilot had a new callsign: Pony Boy.
Twin Offer hit a horse on take-off. Nose wheel to the head. Otter ok, horse dead.
Grand Canyon, AZ airport.
Cattle, deer, elk.
Coming back from maintenance after dark (tower closed) was standard procedure to make a low pass, do a whifferdill, and land the other way. One night three of the guys , coming back in one plane, were in a hurry to get to the bar. Straight in, landed on top of an elk. Took the elk's rack off and puncture skin under the wing. Elk left with no rack and a headache.
Many times before better fencing was installed, tower would report cattle on runway and instruct first plane in line for take-off to taxi down and herd the cattle off by revving engine(s).
JFK
Had to delay take-off for turtle on the runway.
PP
I think that line above explains my slight misunderstanding.In North America, all chelonians are commonly called turtles. Tortoise is used only in reference to fully terrestrial turtles or, more narrowly, only those members of Testudinidae, the family of modern land tortoises.