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Jeff, where is it? Last time I looked, most of the fatals were caused by unintentional stalls. Engine failures are not the cause. It's stalling the wing -- because that morphs a pilot into a helpless passenger... for too long in some Lancairs. Not good if too low. The type AOAs most pilots favor do not, IMHO, give a pilot instantaneous eye-to-hand info of his wing's stall angle to the relative wind... when there exists an AOA indicator. They read out 'somewhere on the panel', and often just as little lights, which the mind must comprehend and convert. In my opinion what's needed is to look at your wing and there also SEE the relative wind -- the vane -- and a mark indicating the stall angle. How about some forum comments on this? Terrence On May 28, 2012, at 12:17 PM, vtailjeff@aol.com wrote: > Please read the rest of the report. The fatal experimental accident rate is two to four times as great as the comparison GA certified aircraft fatal rate. > > Jeff > > Sent from my iPad > > On May 26, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Lorn H Olsen <lorn@dynacomm.us> wrote: > >> 224,000 / 33,000 = 15% >> >> 15% of the fleet, 20% of the accidents. Not bad, not bad at all. >> >> >> On May 25, 2012, at 6:00 AM, Lancair Mailing List wrote: >> >>> Among 224,000 general-aviation aircraft across the USA, 33,000 are considered experimental, meaning they were built from a kit or from a unique design. The aircraft account for 20% of fatal crashes of general aviation, despite representing a small portion of the fleet. >> >> >> -- >> Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, MAA, ASMEL, ASES, Comm, Inst >> DynaComm, Corp., 248-345-0500, mailto:lorn@dynacomm.us >> LNC2, FB90/92, O-320-D1F, 1,800 hrs, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan >> >> >> -- >> For archives and unsub http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/lml/List.html > > -- > For archives and unsub http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/lml/List.html