Private Pilot Flight Training and Instruction Flight Training Article Library | Back To 4VFR.COM 1998 Nall Report VFR flight into IFR conditions is the leading source of fatalities. Judgment failures are the cause. Event-decision; event-decision sequence leads to accidents. Solution: Break chain. Scud running is dangerous because of past successes. 80% of scud accidents have fatalities. Most accidents occur in four summer months. Accident potential is determined by perceived importance, length, time and weather. Personal flying is over 40% of flying with nearly 70% of accidents. Instruction is 20% of flying with 6% of accidents. Make every flight instructional for safety's sake. Takeoff and climb are most dangerous during instruction. Go-arounds were #2 area. Takeoff and landing times have highest accident rate but few fatalities. Midairs occur during VFR, near an airport and at low altitudes. Two planes a week were crashing because fuel was not getting to the engine. No one was killed off-airport by an airplane. Nearly half of IFR approach accidents occur at night The hourly rate of IFR accidents is lower than the VFR rate but the fatality rate is three times higher. Written by Gene Whitt Flight Training Article Library | Back To 4VFR.COM