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Birds also know how to dodge airplanes. The correct response to a collision course with a flock of birds—a situation I've been in on final more than a few times

Birds also know how to dodge airplanes. The correct response to a collision course with a flock of birds—a situation I've been in on final more than a few times—is not to try to maneuver out of the way. Birds will always dive or climb as they close with the airplane.

lutorm 11y ago
"always" seems like a bit of an overstatement there, given that bird strikes in fact do happen, even to small GA aircraft.
- niccaluim 11y ago
  I didn't say they always miss, just that they always dive or climb. ;) But trying to out-maneuver them will pretty much guarantee a collision.