"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
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Both car and GA accident rates have dramatically declined with technical
improvements to safety over the last decades. This expert is simply not
supported
by the numbers.

Reductions in GA accident rates largely came about in the decades before the
1960s/70s vintage airplanes most of us now fly.

NTSB statistics and the general aviation media clearly show that by far the
majority of current GA accidents are due to pilot error and that only a
small portion are due to mechanical failure. Thus it remains to be
demonstrated whether further reduction in the GA accident rate would be best
done via additional equipment such as a BRS parachute vs. pilot training.

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Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com