The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released a new report on wildlife strikes in Australia titled: Australian aviation wildlife strike statistics: Bird and animal strikes 2002 to 2009
This report provides aviation birdstrike and animal strike occurrence data for the period 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2009.
It also describes the results of an ATSB survey of aerodromes concerning current wildlife control measures.
The AAWHG together with the Australian Airports Associaton and Avisure have updated the draft Wildlife Hazard Management Plan template.
This draft is now available for review and any feedback/comments are welcome. Please click on the link to access the document.
Any feedback should be sent to the following address: pshaw@avisure.com.auThe 2010 International Bird Strike Conference is coming to Australia and will be held in Cairns between the 21 - 24 September. For more information, please click on the link to be taken to the official conference website.
The last AAWHG meeting for 2010 will be held in the Cairns Airport Boardroom at 3pm on Monday 20 September.
To read about previous meetings, go to meeting minutes.
To access previous news articles, go to the news archive
The ATSB Accident & Incident Notification Form now includes bird/animal strike fields. This information is essential to help better understand the issues with bird and animal hazards.
The Bird Risk Assessment Model for Airports and Aerodromes has now been finalised and is available for use.
The International Civil Aviation Organization has recently released Electronic Bulletin (EB 2009/37) titled: 2001-2007 Bird Strike Analyses (IBIS).
To view a copy of the bulletin, please click on the above link.