"tony roberts" wrote in message
news:nospam-9878D2.21284130112004@shawnews...
Hi June

Zatatime is right.
Sorry - I didn't mean that ANY pilot flying into IFR is a major risk.
I meant to say that pilots who were not certified IFR, and who are not
flying IFR equipped aircraft , who do fly into IFR are an accident
waiting to happen.

IFR certified pilots flying IFR certified aircraft are safer.

tony

The leading cause of fatal accidents is maneuvering flight at 30%. The
second leading cause is takeoff and climb at 18%. Third is weather related
at 12%. The Nall report indicates IMC flight has marginally fewer accidents
but those accidents are much more likely to be fatal. There is no
indication IFR pilots flying IFA aircraft are safer.



In article ,
zatatime wrote:

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 03:59:48 GMT, tony roberts
wrote:

BUT:
Most light aircraft accidents are caused through continued flight into
IFR (read - don't even attempt to fly there there) weather.


To be more clear: The accidents of this type are for VFR (good
weather) pilots without training on how to effectively operate an
aircraft in IFR (bad weather) conditions. For June's understanding,
these are people that only have the license your husband got first.
Since he is now working toward his instrument ticket these statistics
are greatly reduced.

Just don't want you to think that the added training he is going for
makes this far more dangerous. It will actually make him safer
overall.

z




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Tony Roberts
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Cessna 172H C-GICE