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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway
I recall a number of strips in western NSW where we had to do a low flypast to get the sheep off the runway before attempting to land  Admittedly they got off the strip pretty quick when a 172 came roaring past. |
The airfield I fly out of here in Queensland has a number of kangaroos. Usually they stay off the runways but I've heard of people having to go around because of them. A roo jumped in front of a landing RV7 once. It barely missed the prop, hit the leading edge of the wing with it's head and got knocked down. As it went down it's tail came up and hit the trailing edge of the flap damaging it considerably. The pilot had powered up to go around when he saw the roo jump in front and decided to continue. Fortunately the controllability of the plane didn't suffer and he was able to make a uneventful landing after a circuit. The roo? Got up and bounced away!
Here's a video I shot a couple of weeks ago at the airfield. Has some kangaroos too:
07-23-2010, 11:20 AM
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