Read this in the newspaper (Deccan Herald) in the morning.Authorities are planning to use MAVs to avoid bird hits around airports.These miniature air vehicles are radio controlled.Does anyone know anything more about these planes?(The paper does not elaborate on the planes.)

Interesting...

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/93848/preventing-avian-aviation-collisions.html

Ashta bhai may run into the testing of these at Hoskote one of these days

yeah.Expecting ashta sir to report on these.

I wonder if they will use an EPP Eagle


I always thought that would make a great platform for such things

You may have seen our master builder Ashta's thread on the same :

http://www.rcindia.org/electric-planes/fff-eagle-56-inch-wing-span-scratch-build/

Seeing it in person was very VERY impressive

At Mahalakshmi, I have found the larger birds actually attacking gliders and small, electric planes.

So, they would be better off NOT using aircraft that "would resemble winged vertebrates".  A noisy nitro plane (without muffler?) would be better. But I don't think it would really work. All that would happen would be the birds moving away a bit.

Well I was at a demonstration of one of these



They had a speaker onboard it and could make all sorts of siren noises that could be heard quite a way away. So perhaps flying with Eagle cries, or better still distress calls from others birds it could work.

Its sort of what the BCU, bird control unit guys did when I was in the RAF, but from speakers mounted on landrovers, I think that was called SAPPHO they also fired shots that exploded amongst the birds and fired flares at them. At one airfield I was based we were right on an estuary and every evening when the birds came home in enormous numbers they would have to stop flying.

So it is a problem.

Oh yeah.Forgot to mention it.It needs to be implemented really fast.Have any rc fliers had 'bird hits'?

Yes. Several at Mahalakshmi.