A flock of seagulls had chosen that moment to break ground from the grass beside the runway and fly across our path. They disappeared under the nose as we climbed away and cleaned the aircraft up… no noise of an impact but then we noticed the No 2 engine’s N1 vibration number was pulsing and reading a bit high.  So starts another Tale from my flying logbook.

Marauding seagulls at Shannon

The A340 Cockpit

Setting the landing flaps to Config 3

JFK VOR to 22L

The route LHR to HKG

Landing at Kai Tak

Trying to maintain landing recency

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