Crap load of birds right after take off

iamtheari said:
All general statements are false. Be careful with that word, "absolutely." :)
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Gotta be careful with "never" and "always" too. Not to mention "all"!

But general statements? "In general, most humans have two eyes, two ears, a nose and a mouth." For the most part, that's true.
 
I was on a PALS flight to Presque Isle Maine, popped out of the clouds on final, got about 1/4 mile from the runway and I notice the large grass area before the threshold is all white with what I counted to be 1.2 bajillion sea gulls. I have never seen so many birds in one place. They saw me as I closed and start flying, fortunately the stayed low and flew away from the runway. I landed long and didn't hit any. I told the airport guy, he said oh yeah, I've chased them out about 10 times already today. When I took off it looked like a slaughter near the rwy threshold, someone had taken a bunch out.
 
A1Topgun said:
Question. Did you have your landing lights on? I have heard of a study out of Ohio State University many years ago finding less bird strikes when the lights were on.
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So can we start using “geese in the landing lights” instead of “deer in the headlights”?
 
I'm wondering how many birds in a crap ton? More than a chit ton but less than a metric chit ton?
Or, are crap and chit interchangeable?
 
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Mooney 1
Hawk 0
 
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