Flight risk.
Jenny and I spent a couple of hours down at Brisbane Airport this morning, watching aircraft traffic and listening to the Tower on my scanner. The airline industry is also one of my hobbies. No photos today of aircraft, with Brisbane Airports horrible tall jail like security fences, decent shots of taxi-ing planes are near possible. In addition, landing this morning was east to west and with the newer runway (right) out of sight, this eliminates half the traffic from in flight shots. But we still enjoy watching and listening and perhaps, dreaming!
On the way back, we ventured down to the Luggage Point Treatment Works (now called a Resource Recovery Centre but it's all sewage!) which is not far from the airport and has a wetlands just outside that attracts a lot of birds. Wow, and a lot of birds there today, it was partially flooded and had what appeared some old open piles of grain on hard stored adjacent to the water. All those birds so close to the airport are a bit of a worry.
There were quite a variety and our arrival spooked a large flock of common pigeons and perhaps a few other birds as you can see. Worse still, there must have been a 1000 Magpie Geese along the wetlands, no doubt the grain a bit of a temptation. These are rather large birds to be hanging around in significant numbers, waiting to be potentially ingested into aircraft engines although of course, Brisbane like many other airports very proactively manages the bird risk. A big job considering the runways that face east immediately cross a mangrove belt on the shores of Moreton Bay after rotation (lift off in other words). A few years back we were waited on a 747 international flight that was considerably delayed while assessments and repairs from a bird strike were made in Brisbane.
Flight risk.
Jenny and I spent a couple of hours down at Brisbane Airport this morning, watching aircraft traffic and listening to the Tower on my scanner. The airline industry is also one of my hobbies. No photos today of aircraft, with Brisbane Airports horrible tall jail like security fences, decent shots of taxi-ing planes are near possible. In addition, landing this morning was east to west and with the newer runway (right) out of sight, this eliminates half the traffic from in flight shots. But we still enjoy watching and listening and perhaps, dreaming!
On the way back, we ventured down to the Luggage Point Treatment Works (now called a Resource Recovery Centre but it's all sewage!) which is not far from the airport and has a wetlands just outside that attracts a lot of birds. Wow, and a lot of birds there today, it was partially flooded and had what appeared some old open piles of grain on hard stored adjacent to the water. All those birds so close to the airport are a bit of a worry.
There were quite a variety and our arrival spooked a large flock of common pigeons and perhaps a few other birds as you can see. Worse still, there must have been a 1000 Magpie Geese along the wetlands, no doubt the grain a bit of a temptation. These are rather large birds to be hanging around in significant numbers, waiting to be potentially ingested into aircraft engines although of course, Brisbane like many other airports very proactively manages the bird risk. A big job considering the runways that face east immediately cross a mangrove belt on the shores of Moreton Bay after rotation (lift off in other words). A few years back we were waited on a 747 international flight that was considerably delayed while assessments and repairs from a bird strike were made in Brisbane.