How would an accident outside work impact your job?

bucksmith said:
@Inverted , where are you doing your flying and what kind of flying are you doing? There are different levels of exposure, ranging from flying a champ vfr around the patch in Kansas, to continuing to give flight instruction out of the biggest bottleneck airport in the D.C. SFRA. I still reluctantly do the latter, if I checked three green 64 times, I probably looked at the transponder 65 times!
Everybody is capable of making mistakes, your co-workers are not incorrect. You are certainly exposing yourself to career ending possibilities. Don't stop flying (you won't), but don't let your guard down or get complacent. I treat every flight with the same amount of respect and professionalism, whether I'm in a jet or a 172.
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I do a lot of GA flying. Everything from flying gliders to flying the tow plane (Pawnee) to teaching a little on the side. I fly around 150-200 hours outside work every year. Mostly fun flying for my self. Less than 75 hrs of that is instruction. I mostly give instruction to owners for insurance requirements.
 
Inverted said:
You teach aerobatics too?
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No, I fly small airplanes and we virtually never land at an airport or anything you could even call a strip. It probably doesn't quite have the accident statistics as acro, but I know as a region we're worse than anything else.
 
I had a friend who ground looped / wingtip struck a tailwheel while giving instruction one week before his mainline class date... Still there.
 
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