About this episode

Capt Nick shares a flying logbook tale involving a flock of seagulls and an engine vibration issue.

A flock of seagulls had chosen that moment to break ground from the grass beside the runway and fly across our path. They disappeared under the nose as we climbed away and cleaned the aircraft up… no noise of an impact but then we noticed the No 2 engine’s N1 vibration number was pulsing and reading a bit high. So starts another Tale from my flying logbook.   Marauding seagulls at Shannon   The A340 Cockpit   Setting the landing flaps to Config 3   JFK VOR to 22L   The route LHR to HKG   Landing at Kai Tak   Trying to maintain landing recency   Images published under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Nick Anderson, Google Maps and the FAA.

Topics covered

• aviation
• flying experiences
• aircraft maintenance

Keywords

• seagulls
• engine vibration
• A340 cockpit

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