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smlplanet(at)msn.com
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject: Deer and Turtles On the Runway

<?xml:namespace prefix="v" /><?xml:namespace prefix="o" /><![endif]-->  We see a deer now and then but have a turtle problem. They don't stand out  like the deer and tend to blend in to the grass until your ready to set it down.  A friend and I hit one in his Challenger and bent the noise wheel. We spent the  rest of the week end walking the runway spray painting every one we found with a  bright orange marking paint.

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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: Deer and Turtles On the Runway

At 06:32 PM 5/15/2008, ross richardson wrote:

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		  We see a deer now and then but have a turtle problem. They don't stand out 

like the deer and tend to blend in to the grass until your ready to set it 

down. A friend and I hit one in his Challenger and bent the noise wheel. 

We spent the rest of the week end walking the runway spray painting every 

one we found with a bright orange marking paint.


	


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Snoopy Baxley

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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: Deer and Turtles On the Runway

You guys have it lucky ..... At least those critters  cross the runway then is off..... These Cows we have just homestead on the  runway.... You can only scare them once..... Then they just ignore the noisy big  skeeeters.....and when they do finally move they leave all these slick mines all  over the place to run over and if your lucky to have an enclosed cockpit all you  end up with is the stuff all over your Kolb.... )

  

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gaman(at)att.net
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 3:20 am Post subject: Deer and Turtles On the Runway

I'm not sure ,but didn't jetpilot say something about a turtle whistle ?



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russ(at)rkiphoto.com
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 6:12 am Post subject: Deer and Turtles On the Runway

FWIW - I've seen a hundred sheep sharing the runway with aircraft, gliders and their tugs, in  Holland. Pilots just keep roaring out in  a jeep & scaring them away repeatedly, until they keep to 'their end'. Labor-intensive, but it does work, even tho sheep are dumber than  cows. At least their droppings are smaller than a cow's 'slick pies'. 

Wonder if cattle-prods would be an acceptable option  ? Nasty thing to do to a nice cow, but --

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		    You guys have it lucky ..... At least those critters cross the runway then is off..... These Cows we have just homestead on the runway.... You can only scare them once..... Then they just ignore the noisy big skeeeters.....and when they do finally move they leave all these slick mines all over the place to run over and if your lucky to have an enclosed cockpit all you end up with is the stuff all over your Kolb.... )

  

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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 6:22 am Post subject: Deer and Turtles On the Runway

He may have but the only real problem is that turtles don't move fast enough to get out of the way.

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   .ExternalClass DIV {;}     I'm not sure ,but didn't jetpilot say something about a turtle whistle ?

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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: Deer and Turtles On the Runway

I really hate it when those turtles run out on the runway in front of me as I am trying to land.  The worst part is, at the last second they start darting back and fourth not  knowing which way to go, so its even harder to avoid them !



A turtle whistle is a great idea to scare em off  



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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 10:05 am Post subject: Deer and Turtles On the Runway

say something about a turtle whistle  ?>>

  

 Is this thread a gag?  We don`t have turtles  over here but a whistle would be the last thing I would think of for something  that looks like a tortoise..

 `Dashing about on the runway` I thought these  things moved a foot every three hundred years.

  

 I have always associated turtles with the swimming  variety. just a swimming tortoise.

  

 My solution would be a sledge hammer hanging  beneath the plane and then you could fly  along the runway a few feet up   and knock the turtles out of the way like a croquet ball.

  

 I have the feeling that my education is going to be  extended in the near future

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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:17 am Post subject: Deer and Turtles On the Runway

Why did the chicken cross the Mobius  strip?  To get to the other, er, um....>>

  

 I like that. Never heard it before

  

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russ(at)rkiphoto.com
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject: Deer and Turtles On the Runway

PatIn  today's WAY over-reactionary US society there's probably a 'protect the turtles from  sledgehammers' society. 

Maybe even Jane Fonda is head of it. But better check our local regs before mounting a turtle-basher. 

I still recall bouncing over a bunch of  woodchuck-holes in Banff Canada's dirt runway. Or was it lake Louise? I forget, but the critters themselves dived out of sight in plenty of time. Turtles can't do that! But at least they taste good. Sea-turtles taste a lot better.

You don't have turtles? Can't believe I never knew that; my education is vastly incomplete. What quirk of evolutionary development spared the British isles from  turtles? Or did St. Patrick do some prelim training on turtles before he tackled the snakes of Ireland?

Praps we can someday sit together & further both our educations over a pop or two, and even learn each other's language. Would be fun.

Puzzled and Uneducated in The Colonies,

but fair winds anyway,

Russ

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On May 18, 2008, at 2:02 PM, pj.ladd wrote:

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		   say something about a turtle whistle ?>>

 

Is this thread a gag?  We don`t have turtles over here but a whistle would be the last thing I would think of for something that looks like a tortoise..

`Dashing about on the runway` I thought these things moved a foot every three hundred years.

 

I have always associated turtles with the swimming variety. just a swimming tortoise.

 

My solution would be a sledge hammer hanging beneath the plane and then you could fly  along the runway a few feet up  and knock the turtles out of the way like a croquet ball.

 

I have the feeling that my education is going to be extended in the near future

Cheers

 

Pat

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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 5:48 am Post subject: Deer and Turtles On the Runway

bunch of  woodchuck-holes>>

  

 Hi Russ,

 turtles? we don`t even have  woodchucks.

  

 In fact we don`t have any nasties, either animal or  vegetable.

  

 There are stories of a `black creature` which is  supposed to inhabit the wilds of Dartmoor and I saw with my own eyes a creature  which I  am convinced was a cougar ( or same family)  while on  the Isle of Skye in Scotland a couple of years ago.

 We have one type of poisonous snake, an adder  or viper. I have only seen one in my life. We have nothing like poison ivy.  Stinging nettles which sting badly enough to make a toddler cry, and thats  it.

  

 A veritable Paradise. Of course it does rain a  bit.

  

 Cheers

  

 Pat

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