U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday proposed making it easier to round up geese from a federal refuge near Kennedy Airport and kill them, an idea that's meeting opposition from wildlife advocates. (www.foxnews.com) More...
You don't go crashing your car just because you have insurance, right? Therefore, i don't understand the people who are saying pilots have the training, so it's acceptable to have the chances of a bird strike go up expedentially. Large birds like geese, should not be hanging around a runway. Is killing them all the answer? I don't know... would not mind one in my freezer though.
bird strikes are common and don't usually require landing on none or 1 engine, since birds were in the air first before humans as said before, I guess we will have to find another departure route for the planes, find another location for the airport, or drive instead altogether.
First off, have no idea why tho headline refers to the birds as "angry" lol. Seriously though, I just can't bring myself to support killing off a bunch of these birds like that. There has to be a better way to handle these problems such as having sharper turbines, or implementing lights such as the article said. Because bird strikes can happen in places farther away from airports as well, better to learn to coexist with them anyways.
Well, the USDA says it would welcome the legislation and even the environmentalists admit there is a problem, just disagreeing on how to handle it. It will all be interesting.
Another tax-payed bureaucrat looking for some notoriety to justify her dull and meaningless occupancy in Congress on a matter she knows nil. The bill is not a cost-effective nor efficient approach, as Sen Gillibrand proposes. She should do her homework and read the 2011 USDA's Richard Dolbeer's report.
The birds were there first ! i mean whats all the training for if I can't trust my pilot to land on one engine or none in the case of USAir flight is proof that pilots have been more than trained for these events, bird strike or two will keep them sharp in the cockpit..
