"Paul Stuart" wrote:
Thanks for the interesting statistics that compare GA favorably to
other "recreational" type modes of transport.

You're welcome.

I'd be interested to
see a comparison with horse riding, which I suspect has actually got a
pretty bad accident rate, although not many people would think of it
that way.

I'd like to see numbers on recreational boating included. According to the
ATSB, "The ATSB intends to update and augment this paper (eg to include
marine and the results of comments on this paper) as future data becomes
available." ( http://www.atsb.gov.au/road/statistics/cross_modal.aspx )

So maybe some day they'll include more transport modes.

And, although I've not been posting to this group long, I've learned
enouigh already to observe that you have no hope of elucidating any
kind of "reasonable debate" from Skylune.

My intent of posting was to bring what I thought was fascinating
information to newsgroup readers - debating Skylune was accidental. When
Skylune posted his assertion, I was actually expecting to find out he was
correct - the notion that GA is more dangerous than automobile and
commercial airline travel is well known. But I had a hunch that
recreational boating might be almost as dangerous as GA, so I went
searching for that. Haven't found any stats on boating, but did stumble
across the motorcycling angle and went looking for that and eventually
found the cross modal studies.