14 JAX AIR NEWS, NAS JACKSONVILLE, Thursday, February 5, 2009


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 Photo by NAS lax Environmental Dept.
 As suspected in the recent US Airways Flight 1549 crash into the Hudson River, large birds
-such as these Canadian Geese, seen in 2008 near the west end of the NAS Jax main runway,
represent a deadly hazard to aircraft.

IRunway safety is top priority


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By Cmdr. Mark Scott
NAS Jax Aviation Safety Officer
T: he NAS Jax BASH (Bird-Aircraft
 Strike Hazard) Working Group
 meets quarterly with the NAS Jax
 Aviation Safety Council to discuss safety
 issues, along with active and passive mea-
sures to discourage wildlife habitation on
-or near the airfield.
 Active measures include propane-pow-
ered noise cannons that randomly fire at
:both ends of a runway. Passive measures


include maintaining airfield grass at speci-
fied levels to minimize the attraction for
birds and mammals.
 Bird and animal strikes are reported
by affected squadrons to the Naval Safety
Center via their Web-Enabled Safety
System (WESS). This information is dis-
tributed to naval air activities in avia-
tion hazard reports (HAZREPS). NAS Jax
reported five BASH HAZREPS in 2008
- down significantly from 22 reported in
2007.


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 In the meantime, NAS Jax continues
-to monitor wildlife activity on the base.
iLarge mammals, such as deer, coyote, and
,wild hog also pose haz- ,
ards to flight safety.
If populations of these
animals are allowed
to increase without
predation or hunting, --
they soon deplete hab-
itat food sources and
move to other areas
- which may include
,the airfield.
: The hunting pro-


gram, which is part of wildlife manage-
ment, plays a role in controlling wildlife
populations, while maintaining habitat
suitability. Hunting usually takes place
only on the outlying properties, but there
are occasions when a special archery hunt
on the main station is necessary to control
the deer herd.
 In addition to these efforts, the NAS Jax
Public Works Department and forestry
personnel are, keeping the woods and air-
field clear zones well maintained with a
high-performance mulching machine called
a Gyrotrac..This machine allows us to min-
imize wildfire fuel loads in forested areas
of NAS Jax, where controlled burning is
not possible.


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