There’s not much you can do except think “oh $hit!”. Fortunately it was on landing and not takeoff.
Two guys that work with me have hit deer here on takeoff in the TA-4J. One involved three deer at night and the other hit two deer in the daytime. Fortunately the intakes on the TA-4J are pretty high off the ground so no engine damage.
Almost nailed a doe and two fawns one afternoon with a student in the front doing the takeoff. I saw them at about 12:30 - 1:00 just before they got to the concrete and all I could do was to say “keep going straight, don’t dodge ........”. Probably a 10-15 yard miss. The student said all he saw a brown blur at the last second.
Last edited by navlav8r; 11/16/20.
