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Fatal GA Accident Rate Drops to All-Time Low
General aviation accidents showed a welcome decline in 2013, falling from 1,471 crashes in 2012 to 1,222 last year, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. In fact, by every measure GA flying was safer last year than the year before. (www.flyingmag.com) Altro...
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BC no one can afford to fly anymore. Duh.
Let me get this straight. Less hours of flight. Less single engine piston aircraft flying. Cost have gone through the roof. And they think its getting safer? Park all the cars and I bet the accident rate drops! SMH!
The rate dropped as well. But you have a point that fewer absolute flights can be a factor.
The FAA goal is a reduction to 1/100,000 by 2018. To do this, they will weed out the higher-risk aviators. They may possibly do so by prohibiting pilots with fewer than 3000 hour from flying. That way, only experienced pilots will fly. I doubt they would see anything wrong with such a policy.
The FAA goal is a reduction to 1/100,000 by 2018. To do this, they will weed out the higher-risk aviators. They may possibly do so by prohibiting pilots with fewer than 3000 hour from flying. That way, only experienced pilots will fly. I doubt they would see anything wrong with such a policy.
I can understand what you're saying, and unsafe pilots do need to be addressed. However, I'm sure you meant to say something else other than prohibiting pilots with fewer than 3000 hours from flying. If that happens, no one with less than 3000 hours will ever fly and that will ground and effectively halt general aviation.
Well now, I read that as saying "THEY" as in the FAA seeing nothing wrong with it as it would get them closer to their stated reduction goal. Damn the human factor involved. Make those numbers match.
Yep that is what the FAA wants end general aviation.
True. My point was that bureaucracies often fail to think thru the consequences of their actions and presented a scenario by which the FAA could address the issue in a very destructive manner. They could easily create an adverse situation through ineptness rather than malevolence.
