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The solution is to advise geese they MUST be equipped with mode C 
transponder .

Alain Noireaux

Lorn H Olsen a écrit :
> Matt,
>
> The controller is not responsible for separating IFR aircraft from VFR 
> aircraft, only other IFR aircraft. It is still the IFR pilots 
> responsibility to avoid hitting anything that he can possibly see 
> including VFR aircraft, birds and anything else that is up in the air.
>
> Lorn
>
>> From: Matt Reeves <mattreeves@yahoo.com>
>> Date: January 16, 2009 10:41:25 AM GMT-05:00
>>
>> Opinion by Matt Reeves:
>>
>> FLOCKS OF GEESE FLY SLOW and usually in a "V" shape, AND ARE EASY TO 
>> SEE ON A BLUE SKY DAY - AND ARE sometimes DETECTABLE ON RADAR both on 
>> airplanes and on the ground.   Pilots WERE heros once plane hit the 
>> flock, but COULD have the collision with geese been avoided and the 
>> answer may be YES.
>>
>> It is possible that NEITHER pilot was looking straight out the window 
>> because the airplane was on aninstrument flight plan = meaning, 
>> controllers on the ground were responsible for aircraft separation.
>> .
>> .
>> This aircraft was on an IFR flight plan meaning looking out the 
>> window was not required by the pilots since the controllers on the 
>> ground were responsible for separating aircraft.   However, at low 
>> altitude, at geeseflight levels, looking out the window should be 
>> mandatory.  Most geese do not fly in clouds.
>> .
>> .
>> Matt
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