Bird Strike Detector for Jets??

What are the immediate consequences of bird strike (other than ending up in the river) - perhaps look for them instead. Accelerometers looking for signature of a bird going into the rotor??

OK... so your bird strike light goes off... what, as a pilot, are you going to do about it? :-) I imagine pilots already try to avoid flocks of birds whenever possible...

It would be easier to place the detector at the back of the engine and detect that flaming bits fo bird came out followed by a decrease in thrust.

We could also put an impact detector that lit up a light that says "You just crashed".

If we are going to put any sort of bird detector on the engine, it should be connected to the weapons grade laser that vaporizes it before it goes in.

The biggest problem would be distinguishing between "significant" ingestion (e.g. a whole flock of geese in one go) and the hundreds of pigeons, seagulls, etc which go through the engines day in, day out.

Too bad leftist weenies won't fit ;-)

...Jim Thompson

We already have one. THe airplane all of a sudden gets very, very quiet.

Jim

-- "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." --Aristotle

You can smell fried sparrow and fried deicing fluid in the cabin from the engine bleed air used to pressurize the cabin. Bleed air comes off the compressor stage. Been there, done that, got the tee shirt. The sparrow flock was during climb out, just after rotation, at a point near/on dead man's curve in a 737. I'm still here, so the systems worked as designed. I just felt a slight thump, heard a clicking sound, we yawed a bit, and then a few seconds later a nasty smell. It was not worrisome until the pilot announced the event, after he leveled off. He sounded less then concerned.

But by the time you sense the event, either your turbines are already spinning down, or things are fine.

I have not been aboard one when they did not thaw the test chicken, however. Modern test birds are polymer replicas, thanks to PETA etc.

Interestingly enough, the pilots on the airliner blog I read, all agreed the birds have a right to be air space users, and didn't have a grudge with them.

Steve

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yeh a loud mechanial noise followed by silence and smell of dead birds should be enough ;)

-Lasse

Do you mean to say that the engine puking its guts out its own exhaust aren't enough of an indication that something is wrong?

I was thinking it might be useful to differentiate between a bird strike and some other type of engine failure..

But yeah..however an engine fails, the pilot still has to deal with it bird strike or not.

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada Posted to usenet sci.electronics.design

Perhaps the little birdies can be counted too. If there's no following engine failure alarms, alls well. Perhaps the sparrows, pigeons, seagulls can be logged which may help with the engine maintenance schedule. After 'food processing' hundreds of birds, there's probably some wear.

When the 'something sucked into engine alarm' goes off and then there's the following engine failure alarms then the pilot can put the data together and deal with it..

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada Posted to usenet sci.electronics.design

Perhaps in a failure investigation, it might be useful if a 'thing sucked in engine' detector logged a thing sucked got sucked into the engine..

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada Posted to usenet sci.electronics.design

But was it birds for sure???

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada Posted to usenet sci.electronics.design

You ought to read or listen to the news once in a while.

While there is not yet a formal report, it has been stated that BIG bird remains were found in BOTH engines.

...Jim Thompson

One good thing that came out of all of this is that there's been a new drink named after Capt. Sullenberger:

The "Sully" - two shots of Grey Goose and a splash of water.

Bob

Yeah..I don't read or see much news..

Anyways..Now there's a pilot I'd ask if it would be useful to have a 'thing detected passing into engine' alarm.. It would take some of the mystery out of 'Why are the engines not working?'

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com BC, Canada Posted to usenet sci.electronics.design

It would give them something to write up in the maintenance log!

"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@hovnanian.com:

engine exhaust temps are used to indicate problems. and often,the engine parts come out the SIDES,not the exhaust. One jetliner had them come into the passenger compartment,IIRC,a few people were killed by them.(a tail mounted engine pair)

I'll wager a whole raft of lights came on in the cockpit after flight