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Line Up and Wait
I was doing the traffic watch on friday afternoon. The traffic was horrific this day due to school vacation week coming up and also the long president's day weekend. Everywhere..traffic traffic traffic. I don't know how people can stand driving anywhere. I'm so glad I'm a pilot.
Anyway, we usually get a few touch and goes in each flight to keep things interesting, and this past friday was a very windy day, with serious cross winds and drifting snow on the runways and whatnot.
So we did a touch and go at LWM, and on the go, I saw something shooting by the window, and said "was that a bird?!" to the other pilot, who was at that time just a passenger. He hadn't seen it. Thought nothing else of it until saturday, when I returned to the airport to cover the wings and canopy and noticed blood and guts along the right cowling and wing root. I guess we shredded the poor little bird. He must've gone right thru the prop. I didn't feel or hear a thing when it happened, and there was no damage.
Glad it went thru the prop and not the windshield.
Anyway, we usually get a few touch and goes in each flight to keep things interesting, and this past friday was a very windy day, with serious cross winds and drifting snow on the runways and whatnot.
So we did a touch and go at LWM, and on the go, I saw something shooting by the window, and said "was that a bird?!" to the other pilot, who was at that time just a passenger. He hadn't seen it. Thought nothing else of it until saturday, when I returned to the airport to cover the wings and canopy and noticed blood and guts along the right cowling and wing root. I guess we shredded the poor little bird. He must've gone right thru the prop. I didn't feel or hear a thing when it happened, and there was no damage.
Glad it went thru the prop and not the windshield.