German Bird Strike Committee - a Registered Association

The GBSC (DAVVL e.V.) is the pivotal German organisation for research on flight safety hazards arising from the living environment. Just as the name suggests, the prevention of aircraft/bird collisions is its primary duty. To meet the duty, the GBSC...

...advises associated airports (members of the GBSC), as well as national, federal and other authorities involved in aviation, on habitat management and bird-strike prevention at and around airports;
...prepares and updates ecological reports on airports and their surroundings;
...drafts reports on changes in the environment of airports and their relevance to the bird-strike situation;
...collects bird-strike reports in Germany;
...compiles, updates and analyses bird-strike statistics for Germany;
...analyses bird-strike reports in order to gain a better understanding of the hazards posed by bird strikes;
...proposes, organises and monitors research projects and experiments;
...offers training courses for technical and operational staff;
...cooperates with international organisations concerned with flight safety, e.g. ICAO, IBSC ;
...maintains contacts with scientific institutions, environmental authorities and organisations, and other national bodies;
...evaluates national and international scientific literature;
...publishes the scientific journal Bird and Aviation.

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German Bird Strike Committee - a Registered Association