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karatecatman
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 Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject: Ahmedabad airport to get laser guns to check bird hits |
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TIMES OF INDIA
City airport to get laser guns to check bird hits
TNN
23 October 2009
AHMEDABAD: The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport will soon have laser guns to check the menace of bird hits.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has finally begun acting on the directions issued during the high-level meeting between Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
Officials said that at the meeting it was decided that the AAI would have laser guns installed at the airport instead of the existing LPG scare guns.
Officials said that the laser guns have been tested in Mumbai and soon they would be brought to Ahmedabad for trial. Once successful, the guns will be replaced with the LPG scare guns.
The AAI has also directed its staff to ensure that there was no garbage disposal either by the Airport Colony residents or the catering staff. The scattered garbage went a long way in attracting birds.
Officials said that AAI has already issued directions for regular cutting of grass on the airport premises and also decided that insecticides should be regularly sprayed. As per International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) regulations, airports should ensure that grass near the runway does not grow beyond four inches.
Tall grass inside the city airport encourages reptiles, small mammals and birds. Many kites have been spotted on the runway and reptiles like snakes move about along with egrets to feed on insects coming out of the grass. Even dogs have been seen inside the airport.
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me111993
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Nice 
Those bird hits were really starting to become a menace. Something colud have seriously gone wrong, if things continued the way they were.  |
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Nimish
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| Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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We know all that the LPG gun does it to make a loud noise and a little smoke. What does the Laser Gun do?
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