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Originally Posted by Joe Gremlin  Don't bird strikes cause power loss in piston engines all that often? 
I can see it in turbine engines, but the most I'd expect is plugging up the cowl opening/overheating if that from a piston engine. And let's face it, if you're down that low, you're probably sitting behind a piston engine. Que a plethora of low level jet youtube posts... |
I used to fly low level doing mosquito abatement for many years. Hit so many birds that I lost count (including the one bird I hit three times).
Of all the bird strikes I had (averaged about 3-5 a year if I remember correctly), I only had
two that came close to an engine. One was a Mockingbird that went down the oil cooler air intake on a Beech 18, and the other was an owl that smashed the lower front of the cowling on an Aztec.