Wildlife at airports - News, Thoughts and Observations

[Captain Halliday]

From bird strikes to giant grouper fish, mud wasps and deadly snakes - Brisbane airport has them all.

Here's an interesting chat with the man responsible for Managing wildlife at Brisbane Airport.

And we now have a thread for stories about wildlife at airports.

 

[Hvr]

Here's a little critter that can cause big problems:

Keyhole wasps are notorious for building their nests in manufactured structures, and they have now been shown to do this in devices mounted to planes that are crucial for measuring airspeed during flight. Blockages in these tubes can lead to pilots misreading airspeed and have led to fatal crashes in the past

Read more: Wasps in Australia are endangering planes by building nests on them

 

[AviatorInsight]

Here's a little critter that can cause big problems:



Read more: Wasps in Australia are endangering planes by building nests on them

Which is why on every turnaround you’ll see the pitot covers put on as soon as the aircraft is chocked at BNE.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Digital version of the story I posed up-thread, including video of the BNE airport groupers.