C210 pilot reports striking at least one canadian goose at 1;700 feet after takeoff. The windscreen ...

Attributes
ACN	1138617
Time
Date	201312
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Cessna 210 Centurion / Turbo Centurion 210C 210D
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	VFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 18 Flight Crew Total 2623 Flight Crew Type 1696
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Inflight Event / Encounter Bird / Animal

Narrative:

About two minutes after departure westbound; struck canadian geese. One goose came through the front windscreen. Pilot and right seat passenger were uninjured. Goose not so lucky. A hole of about two feet wide by one foot high was created in the windscreen. Pulled power back to 1;700 RPM and returned to land. Aircraft flew normally other than the wind noise and increased drag. Normal landing. Recited mentally aviate; navigate; communicate. In this instance I told myself mentally aviate; aviate; and aviate. I was close to my home field so navigation was a non issue. I relayed my situation over unicom alerting other aircraft in the area as I needed priority for landing and certainly didn't want any aircraft to interfere with the landing. The last thing I wanted to do was go-around.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C210 pilot reports striking at least one Canadian goose at 1;700 feet after takeoff. The windscreen is badly damaged but neither front seat occupant is injured and the flight returns to the departure airport.

Narrative: About two minutes after departure westbound; struck Canadian geese. One goose came through the front windscreen. Pilot and right seat passenger were uninjured. Goose not so lucky. A hole of about two feet wide by one foot high was created in the windscreen. Pulled power back to 1;700 RPM and returned to land. Aircraft flew normally other than the wind noise and increased drag. Normal landing. Recited mentally aviate; navigate; communicate. In this instance I told myself mentally aviate; aviate; and aviate. I was close to my home field so navigation was a non issue. I relayed my situation over Unicom alerting other aircraft in the area as I needed priority for landing and certainly didn't want any aircraft to interfere with the landing. The last thing I wanted to do was go-around.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

C210 pilot reports striking at least one canadian goose at 1;700 feet after takeoff. The windscreen is badly damaged but neither front seat occupant is injured and the flight returns to the departure airport.