Hoody testiculates.
Testiculation – the art of talking of bollocks with hand gestures. Which, on sober reflection, was exactly what Hood was doing during his smug, smart assed finale to the ‘drone’ discussion. In the video segment ‘Sterlo on drones’ after Goatly does his nervous little party piece at 0845 Hoody, fairly aggressively and quickly, steps in with a “perspective” - pure party line – and tries to parallel bird strikes with drone strikes.
Bird strikes do happen and something like a big wedge tail eagle at an average weight of about the 4.5 kg can certainly spoil your day, but birds will, for the most part try to avoid contact – even when ‘hunting’ in the vicinity of an aerodrome, they ain’t stationary; but then flying in ‘wedge tail country’ is a whole other subject (not taught). Gods alone know how many birds Australia has and how many species there are (Google does). ATSB should know how many bird strikes there are in a year, of those the percentages which occur at different location should be available (city, town, country, rural and GAFA). Want to bet where most occur; then compare that to 'known' high density drone populations? Nah, didn't think so.
On my own account, I’ve never met with a bird that deliberately got in my face – never met any form of airborne threat that was controlled, remotely by some mutt with NFI of closing speed; and, I can’t think of a time where a bird was loitering on the approach or take off without the intention getting out of my path a.s.a.p, (provided they ‘see’ you). Birds don’t loiter – they are on the move – both in random (in transit) and predictable (hunting) patterns – the mathematics of percentage strikes make it a fair bet that unless you operate into a known ‘hazard’ area (LHI tip for example, bloody seagulls) the chances of a contact are fairly remote. Birds don’t hover about airports approach paths at busy city destinations taking pictures or buggering about being funny – they do try very hard not to get hurt and are a damn sight smarter than some uneducated, unaccountable yokel with an Aldi toy showing off.
It is silly to even try and align making the rules and controls for recreational drone operators with accidental bird strike; totally different animals. it’s glib, smart arsed and a badly considered approach to what is rapidly becoming a serious, growing threat. No CF for Hoody, demerit points for behaviour unbecoming.
Tweet tweet.
Addendum: Need to wait for Hansard – but, there was a neat piece of ledgerdemain and fancy, defensive footwork about Hood’s conflict of interest in the Pel-Air debacle, which is worthy of some attention. That, and the invisible manning’s glib excuses for the further delay in releasing ‘that’ report to the public. MTF.
Testiculation – the art of talking of bollocks with hand gestures. Which, on sober reflection, was exactly what Hood was doing during his smug, smart assed finale to the ‘drone’ discussion. In the video segment ‘Sterlo on drones’ after Goatly does his nervous little party piece at 0845 Hoody, fairly aggressively and quickly, steps in with a “perspective” - pure party line – and tries to parallel bird strikes with drone strikes.
Bird strikes do happen and something like a big wedge tail eagle at an average weight of about the 4.5 kg can certainly spoil your day, but birds will, for the most part try to avoid contact – even when ‘hunting’ in the vicinity of an aerodrome, they ain’t stationary; but then flying in ‘wedge tail country’ is a whole other subject (not taught). Gods alone know how many birds Australia has and how many species there are (Google does). ATSB should know how many bird strikes there are in a year, of those the percentages which occur at different location should be available (city, town, country, rural and GAFA). Want to bet where most occur; then compare that to 'known' high density drone populations? Nah, didn't think so.
On my own account, I’ve never met with a bird that deliberately got in my face – never met any form of airborne threat that was controlled, remotely by some mutt with NFI of closing speed; and, I can’t think of a time where a bird was loitering on the approach or take off without the intention getting out of my path a.s.a.p, (provided they ‘see’ you). Birds don’t loiter – they are on the move – both in random (in transit) and predictable (hunting) patterns – the mathematics of percentage strikes make it a fair bet that unless you operate into a known ‘hazard’ area (LHI tip for example, bloody seagulls) the chances of a contact are fairly remote. Birds don’t hover about airports approach paths at busy city destinations taking pictures or buggering about being funny – they do try very hard not to get hurt and are a damn sight smarter than some uneducated, unaccountable yokel with an Aldi toy showing off.
It is silly to even try and align making the rules and controls for recreational drone operators with accidental bird strike; totally different animals. it’s glib, smart arsed and a badly considered approach to what is rapidly becoming a serious, growing threat. No CF for Hoody, demerit points for behaviour unbecoming.
Tweet tweet.
Addendum: Need to wait for Hansard – but, there was a neat piece of ledgerdemain and fancy, defensive footwork about Hood’s conflict of interest in the Pel-Air debacle, which is worthy of some attention. That, and the invisible manning’s glib excuses for the further delay in releasing ‘that’ report to the public. MTF.