Publications and tools

CASA Advisory Circular:  Wildlife Hazard Management at Aerodromes

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), with the support of the AAWHG, has published its first Advisory Circular on Wildlife Hazard Management at Aerodromes.  

The circular aims to provide information and guidance to the operators of aerodromes to monitor, manage and report their wildlife hazards in accordance with the applicable regulations and standards.

 

Bird Risk Assessment Model for Airports and Aerodromes

The University of Adelaide and Adelaide Airport Ltd, supported by the AAWHG, have developed a Bird Risk Assessment Model for Airports and Aerodromes.

The model aims to assist in the assessment of the relative risk of an aviation strike posed by bird species at individual airports/aerodromes.  The model also provides a framework to support those aerodromes required by the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations to produce a wildlife management plan.

This tool should allow airport and aerodrome operators to rank species and then focus their bird hazard reduction programs on those species presenting the greatest risk. Both quantitative and qualitative measures of abundances and strikes are used to rank probabilities of a species being involved in a strike at a particular airport since airports differ in the quality and quantity of information that they hold.

In this way the tool is designed to take into account different levels of knowledge and available statistics for different airports.

Bird Risk Assessment Model for Airports and Aerodromes (661 KB)

 

Wildlife Hazard Management Plan - Updated Template

The AAWHG together with the Australian Airports Associaton and Avisure have updated the Wildlife Hazard Management Plan template.  (838 kb)

This document is a useful resource for aerodromes wishing to prepare or update their Wildlife Hazard Management Plan.  The template has been designed so that the non relevant sections can be removed and the content taylored to suit the size and complexity of the airport.

Detailed instructions for its use are contained within the template.  Please contact info@aawhg.org if you have any further questions.

  

Bird information sheets

A set of Bird Information sheets have been developed by the ATSB and cover the 8 birds considered to be hazardous to aircraft operations.

These information sheets are available to download from the ATSB website.

 

Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) Reports and Research Papers

In 2010, the ATSB released an updated report analysing the birdstrikes that were reported between the years 2002 and 2009.  Please click on the following link to access this report:

ATSB bird strike report (2002-2009)

 

Please refer to the following link for copies of previous ATSB reports:

ATSB bird strike report (2002-2006)

 

In 2003, the ATSB released a research paper on the Hazard Posed to Aircraft by Birds.  This paper was integral to the formation of the Australian Aviation Wildlife Hazard Group.

 

ICAO Electronic Bulletin:  2001 - 2007 Bird Strike Analysis (IBIS)

The International Civil Aviation Organization has recently released Electronic Bulletin (EB 2009/37) titled:

2001-2007 Bird Strike Analyses (IBIS). 

 

This report in summary, provides analysis on the bird strikes that were reported to ICAO over this period and provides some interesting information on Wildlife Hazard Management from a uniquely international perspective. To view a copy of the bulletin, please click on the above link.

 

Industry Articles:

 

Flight Safety Australia (Civil Aviation Safety Authority)

March - April 2011:  Special article on Wildlife Strikes 

 

Aero Magazine (Boeing)

 3rd Quarter 2011: Strategies for Prevention of Bird Strike events (601 kb)