Barry,
This is
off-topic, but I'll check it out. I ran the statistics 15-20 years ago,
soending weeks collecting and analyzing the data, when airline companies were
touting 'safe passenger miles', which is a false statistic. A loaded
airliner is not safer than an empty one.
Is your '10
times the fatalities per year" in terms of per aircraft hour flown? Or per
mile flown?
My original
complaint -- was that we blame (Lancair) pilots instead of the airplane
design. I believe that Lancair pillots as a group are equal to or superior
to most ofther types. But I injferred that Safety-wise, all
aircraft are designed with 'safety' not at the top of the priorities list, and
have serious faults. In the Lancair case, it's the lack of a restoring
pitch force at a stalled AOA, and too-light pitch control... all of which is
well documented.
The non-answer responses have
all been complaints that airline pilots don't need baby-sitting (I said the FAA
baby-sat the airliners meaning complete control when in motion etc.... no
reference to the pilots at all. And now we're all upset about my coments
about how safe ariliners are compared to GenAv. Irrelevant, to the
aerodynamic safety of our GenAv and Experimentals designs.
So, Barry,
what is your comment about the stability and controllability at stall-region
AOAs, of the early Lancairs?
Make Experimentals
aerodynamically safer!
Terrence
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:43
AM
Subject: [LML] Re: response to Terrence
O'Neill's posting...
On Jul 23, 2006, at 2:43 PM, terrence o'neill wrote:
The intent was to say that the airlines are not much safer than GenAv
in spite of the fact that they have all these extra
benefits:
Unfortunately, while I wish this was true, statistics do not bear it
out. General aviation experiences about 10 times the fatalities per year
compared to air carriers. This does not factor in that GA
(surprisingly, on the face of it) flies about twice as many total hours as air
carriers (approx. 30 million v. about 15 million) with more take offs and
landings where 50% of all accidents happen. Regardless, dead is
dead.
Anecdotally, think of how many people you know or have heard of dying in
GA accidents and compare that to how many people you know have died in
airliners. I personally (thankfully) do not know of a single person
killed in an airline crash.
Don't tell your wives this, but statistically speaking, GA is
significantly more dangerous than driving...
Fly safely!
Barry
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