Deer and a Dash

Theres a story about that happening to one of our crews awhile back although i'm not sure how much truth there is to it. Supposedly they were departing out on one of our early flights out of Liberal, KS and struck a deer on the runway with one of the mains after takeoff. They gave station a call to ask if there was anything on the runway and the airport manager went out to investigate. Turns out they found a dead deer on the runway and the airport ops manager, a former taxidermist, said that he could have the head mounted for free if the pilots wanted to. The station agents told the pilots that they did hit a deer and jokingly offered to have it mounted. After a good laugh the captain who was going along with the joke told them "hell why not, we'll pick it up in a week". Sure enough, a week later the crew arrives back at the outstation and to their suprise they see the station agents loading up the mount in the back of the 1900 with the rest of the bags.
 
Looks like the time I ran over a dead coyote with my car. Blood and guts everywhere, sprayed all over the side of my car and tore the front lip of my bumper off. The best part was that some of the coyote's flesh and guts got onto my mufflers. The coyote goo got fused onto them due to the heat I guess. Smelled like burnt coyote for a couple weeks.
 
CaptainMatt said:
Smelled like burnt coyote for a couple weeks.
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like this?:

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Screaming_Emu said:
unless I'm landing, then he should be ok ;-)
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But if you hit it with the wing, and get gas all over it, is that any better?

I guess so. Light a match, and you've got some nice roasted venison!
 
You guys haven't seen a deer problem until you come to where I fly. At certain times of the day, there are 30 to 40 deer who come out of the woods and hang around the taxi way and runway. I have had a few close calls after landing and taxiing back. I usually do a high speed, high- powered low pass down the runway before landing. If they are on the runway, this usually scares them off to the side. The trick is to get back around to land before the deer thinks its fine to go back on the runway.

I have two instrument students who I fly with at night and the night makes the deer almost impossible to see. Working with approach, when they ask how will the approach terminate, I tell them with a low pass and back to land. I usually get three or four people ask on the freq how big a deer problem can it be?
 
rausda27 said:
I have heard about jackrabbits hopping around Austin..I haven't seen any of them.
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Down at KSAT, while performing high power engine runs on a 737, we had a jackrabbit hop toward the airplane and get within 20 feet of the engine inlet. Fortunately he got spooked and ran the other way. Talk about heart stopping...

The jackrabbits have been living at KSAT for years. I'm surprised I haven't heard of an incident there yet...
 
Have one of these things meandering around the flight line:

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This thing jumps in our backyard on occasion and we went from a warren of about 10 rabbits to only one... and he's injured! Poor thing! Poor....tasty...thing!
 
Is that a lynx? Or is that a really small cougar?

I know the Florida panther is protected - what about in AZ?
 
Nice 10 pointer! In all the years I've gone deer hunting, I've gotta better chance of hitting a deer on the runway, than I do with a rifle.
 
Mr_Creepy said:
Is that a lynx? Or is that a really small cougar?

I know the Florida panther is protected - what about in AZ?
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It's either a lynx or a bobcat......I can never tell the difference between the two. But I do know it's definitely no cougar. Cougar = Mountain Lion = Puma, etc....you get the picture
 
Mr_Creepy said:
Is that a lynx? Or is that a really small cougar?
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It's a bobcat as far as I know. We live next to the McDowell Mountain preserve so we've got all sorts of interesting things meandering about the neighborhood.

I know the Florida panther is protected - what about in AZ?
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Well if he got out this far, I'm sure he'd be! :)
 
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