z987k
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Seggy said:According to the Flight Safety Foundation "Over the five years of 2004 to 2008, the latest for which complete data is available, the general aviation accident rate for Alaska was 13.59 mishaps per every 100,000 flying hours. That is more than two times worse than the comparable figure for the United States as whole: 5.85 accidents per 100,000 flying hours."
You took a GA safety record and applied it to operators with safety cultures, implying commercial operation of some sort. Note that these two things are quite different. There are a LOT of 20 year long "student" pilots. I saw an airplane ground looped a few weeks ago. Guy had over 4500 logged hours, but only held a student certificate from 1980 something. Some people actually go get the thing endorsed every now and then. Most don't, and many don't even bother with much formal instruction. So you can't really say that GA follows all the rules, and you certainly can't compare crap like that to professional pilots.Eh, it doesn't need to be twice as bad as the national average. If the operators invested in better equipment, better safety cultures, etc., it would be a lot better.
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