on ne larguera plus de dindons, FAA sanctionnera !

[flyrelax]

la FAA vient de réglementer cette activité !

http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/b ... tml#205524


FAA Warns Turkey Drop Pilots



Thanks to the FAA, there might be a little less hooting and hollering at Yellville, Arkansas's annual Turkey Trot celebrations on the long weekend. The FAA confirmed to The Associated Press that it was sending agents to the Ozark community of 1,300 to sanction any pilots who take part in the annual Turkey Drop. The event involves live wild turkeys being dropped from aircraft onto the town square and, contrary to the horror expressed by animal-rights groups, local officials insist the birds are perfectly capable of gliding to a safe landing on the square. The FAA is staying out of that aspect of the controversy and focusing on the FAR that prohibits dropping anything, winged or not, from an airplane that might harm something or someone below. Turkeys, gliding or not, apparently don't make the grade for that approval so the guys in the sunglasses and polo shirts on the town square are there to try to make sure no one is hurt. "Our concern is always with public safety," FAA spokesman Lynn Lunford told the AP. " We could be talking about turkeys or boxes of paper. It doesn't matter. If you throw something out of an aircraft it can cause damage to people or property on the ground." As for the turkeys, the greatest peril unquestionably awaits them after the drop.



In almost 70 years of Turkey Drops (before airplanes were available, the birds were launched from the roof of the town's courthouse) the object has been for those in the square to chase the turkeys down and make a meal out of them. It's not clear whether the absence of the drop part will make much difference to their final fate. Among other Turkey Trot festivities are a beauty pageant and a turkey-calling contest. The event was parodied in a WKRP in Cincinnati episode in which the radio station mistakenly dropped flightless domestic turkeys onto a mall parking lot as a promotion.

[4T60A]

Que ces bestioles sachent planer ou pas, ce ne sont certainement pas ces démos qui vont attendrir leur chair. Déjà que c'est souvent dûr, la dinde rotie....

[flyrelax]

la nostalgie du largage de dindons semble avoir frappé :

je ne résiste pas à vous poster la suite ! notez que le dindon sauvage sait, quand à lui, planer !

Turkey Drop Aborted, "Pilot" Vows Return


Thanksgiving feels like the right time to confirm that the town of Yellville, Ark., this year did break with tradition and did not punctuate its October Turkey Trot Festival by dropping live turkeys from an airplane ... though it may next year. According to the Arkansas Times blog, the drop was effectively discouraged when the FAA promised to send observers and to enforce FAR 91.15.

(The regulation prohibits pilots from dropping any object from an aircraft if it "creates a hazard to persons or property.") An effort by PETA also offered a $5,000 reward for the identity of the "phantom pilot" responsible for the drop flight. And so, the 2011 Yellville Turkey Trot Festival turkey drop didn't happen. Other popular festival events -- the Miss Drumsticks Competition, for example -- went on without a hitch. And the phantom pilot, or someone posing as that pilot, has vowed to return, according to the Arkansas Times.

Some locals still strongly support their town's tradition. One individual self-identified as "Arkansas hillbilly" added online comments to on an early report. "In the 26 years I have attended the Turkey Trot, I only know of two turkeys that died," the commenter said, "and both were from the trip in the plane and not the actual glide. Domestic turkeys don't fly, but wild turkeys do."

The event's cancellation spawned T-shirts supporting the turkey drop pilot along with a "Phantom Pilot" Facebook page.

The page quickly filled with comments like, "Hundreds more citizens like us are behind all efforts and will be supportive," and "Love It ... Let it Rain Turkeys." The Phantom Pilot page also offers links to commentary and videos supportive of his or her cause. Whoever runs it has added their own comments, which include, "Studies have shown that turkeys that have been released from an airplane are 26% less likely to attack News Reporters."

Happy Thanksgiving.

source : http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/a ... tml#205802

[Helicobora]

Moi une fois, j'ai tiré une dinde que j'avais trouvé en boite.....C'est vrai qu'elle planait un peu, vu ce qu'elle avait dans le nez.....

J'éspére que la FAA vas pas me sanctionner .....

[opslady]

Déjà que c'est souvent dûr, la dinde rotie....

Les gens qui disent ca ne savent pas rotir les dindes correctement! Si vous le faites correctement, et
pas trop longtemps, couverte par une fiche en alu. la viande est delicieuse, pas dur, pas seche.
Si vous ne le faites pas correctement, oui, c'est dur et sec. (comme la premiere fois que je l'ai fait)

Quand le gouvernement se mele de trop, la vie est moins drole!
gobble gobble gobble (dit la dinde)