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Originally Posted by Porsche-poor
yeah you would not want to suffer a bird strike while "sensitive" parts are out.....
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Bird strikes are bad pookie anywhere. Especially large birds like vultures or birds of prey.
My dad talked about his days in pilot training in Enid, OK at Vance AFB. He was "under the hood" and learning to fly via instruments only. He was concentrating and he thought he was doing great. All of a sudden the instructor yelled out, "I got it" and of course that means relinquish all controls and let the instructor fly. He figured he had screwed up and was about to crash. There are no mountains near Enid so that was not it.
He lifted the hood the the instructor said just one word. Buzzards.
That instructor had been knocked out of the sky and was in a crash when another student under the hood hit a buzzard, and it killed the pilot. He had also hit a buzzard and managed to return to base. He was jumpy with buzzards.
It was all written up and no problem with my dad. He graduated and was an Air Force pilot for many long years.