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Feature Article: 1999 Was A Very Good Year
1908 general aviation accidents
342 were fatal accidents
7.05 accidents per 100,000 hours of flying
CFI PTS is now over 150 pages up from eight pages twenty years
ago..
GPS dependence has increased need for ATC flight assists to
rise to record levels.
CRM training reduces accident rates by 54%
10% of IFR accidents occur to non-IFR pilots.
General Aviation, in 1999, had the lowest accident and fatality
rate since records have been kept. There was over an eleven percent
reduction in fatal G.A accidents and a 1.7% decline in accidents.Fatal
instructional accidents fell 9.1%. Of 18 instructional accidents,
only two resulted in fatalities. At the present time, year 1999,
there are 300,000 weather related airline delays cosing $3 billion.
This amounts to $50 million of lost and unrecoverable revenue.
1999 Was a Very Good Year; …; NTSB has a table of GA accident
rates at
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Table10.htm.
Database with detailed descriptions of reportable accidents and
incidents, at
http://nasdac.faa.gov/asp/fw_ntsb.asp.
Anaylsis of types of GA accidents, at
http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/98nall.html.
Takeoff
20-percent of all accident happen at takeoff. Adequate preflight
is the most obvious preventative.
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