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... Guidebook Purpose and Design This guidebook specifically addresses the following issues: • Identifying hazardous wildlife, the problems they cause at general aviation (GA) airports, and methods for dealing with those problems; and • Establishing wildlife hazard control programs at GA airports, evaluating the effectiveness of a wildlife hazard control program, and training airport personnel.
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... The guidebook is organized into three sections: Part 1 (Chapters 1, 2, and 3) is designed for airport personnel who want to know: • What kind of wildlife they are seeing at the airport, • What is attracting problem wildlife to the airport, and • How to get rid of problem wildlife.
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... Experts within the civil aviation community have long recognized that the threat to aviation safety and economic repercussions from collisions between aircraft and wildlife (commonly referred to as "wildlife aircraft strikes" or "strikes") is increasing (see for example Dolbeer 2000, Allan and Orosz 2001, MacKinnon, Sowden, and Dudley, 2001, Dolbeer and Eschenfelder 2003, Cleary and Dolbeer 2005, and Cleary et al.
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... 2. A University of North Dakota instructor pilot and student pilot died October 23, 2007, when their Piper PA-44 Seminole crashed after striking what is believed to have been one or more Canada geese near Browerville, Minnesota.
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... Airports that have accepted Airport Improvement Program (AIP) monies or other federal grants-in-aid (obligated airports)

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