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(More customer reviews)Over the past 25 years, aircraft collisions with birds have caused many large airliners to crash and hundreds of lives to be lost. Environmental protection laws have led to a dramatic increase in bird populations. According to the FAA bird strike database aircraft bird strikes have increased from 1500 per year in 1990 to over 8000 per year in 2008. In the next 10 years, annual air passenger traffic is expected to increase from the current value of 600 million to 1 billion passengers. With more birds and more planes fighting for the same piece of sky, it is only a matter of time before we have another airliner in the Hudson accident.
After reading this book you will understand that despite over 40 years of trying to solve the aircraft bird strike problem, there has been little progress until now. The author has patented a bird strike warning system that allows pilots to avoid bird strikes. He is collaborating with the FAA and MIT on an implementation. Learn about the design of a system that uses a bird radar, a data link to the cockpit, and a cockpit collision avoidance system to warn pilots of an impending collision with birds. Study the history of bird strikes, the FAA bird strike database statistics, bird strike accidents and how they are investigated, regulations to bird proof airliners, organizations working on the problem and the current limited methods used to reduce the risk of bird strikes at airports.
A bird radar alone will not prevent a bird strike. By the time an air traffic controller sees the bird on a radar and tries to communicate a potential collision to the pilot, it is too late. At busy airports, air traffic controllers are already task saturated and do not have time to stare at a bird radar display. Even if the controller had time, the frequencies are so saturated today that a controller would have a difficult time communicating an impending bird collision to the pilot.
The inside story on day to day operations in the airlines is explained and reveals that a pilot is task saturated during the time that most bird strikes occur (takeoff and landing around airports). These demands require automated warning systems so pilots can take action to avoid a bird strike. The book describes the operational implementation for use of a bird strike warning system for pilots so action can be taken to avoid collisions with birds.
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Dr. Jerry LeMieux has over thirty-five years and 10,000 hours of aviation experience. He has flown military fighter aircraft and is a major airline pilot. He was responsible for solving national aviation issues as an Executive Safety Chairman for the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA). He is currently developing both ground- and airborne-based radar collision avoidance systems for Unmanned Air Systems.
He has been on the staff and faculty at MIT, Boston University, Daniel Webster College, and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University where he taught courses in electrical and aeronautical engineering and advanced mathematics. He has published technical papers on radar design and has been a Chairman and Technical Paper Selection Committee Member for the National and International Radar Conferences, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, in addition to being a member of several professional organizations.
While piloting a fighter aircraft, he has personally experienced an aircraft bird strike that resulted in significant loss of thrust in a jet engine. He recently filed a patent for a ground-based radar system that sends bird targets to the cockpit to prevent aircraft bird strikes. The technology is available today to permanently solve this worldwide problem.
