3 airports may become bird-strike free

Bangalore: Mysore, Hubli and Mangalore airports may well become the country’s first bird-strike-free airports if the Bird Strike Research Group of India has its way.
The research group, which was set up last year to look into the issue of bird strikes, has advised the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to implement certain methods to do away with such strikes. The three airports are being used by the group for its pilot study.
Speaking to Deccan Herald, K Ramachandra of the study group said: “We decided on the three airports as one (Mysore) is a new airport, the other (Hubli) is a medium-sized airport and the third (Mangalore) is a coastal airport. These choices will give us options to uncover methods to prevent strikes under a variety of situations.”
Once the analysis of the migratory pattern is complete, the institution plans to deploy measures including using Micro Air Vehicles (MAV), that resemble the winged vertebrates to frighten away birds. The micro vehicles are currently under development by the National Programme (NP-MICAV) for MAVs.
03/07/12 Chethan Kumar/Deccan Herald

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