Re: Birds, Birds, Birds!

Kyle Boatright wrote:

The second bird encounter was with a formation of a dozen or so ducks. We were over Alabama at 11,500' headed NE and the ducks were probably at 11,300' headed South. They were flapping like mad, which isn't a surprise given the altitude and their wing loading. Somehow, Flight Following missed giving us the traffic warning. ;-) I told Kelly that if we'd hit the ducks, it would have made a real ducking mess...
They obviously weren't squawking any code...






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