Jay Beckman wrote:

- Get the insurance industry into this mix so that they make their
premium-related decisions based on facts and not
generalizations/guesstimates. Also, the FAA would like to see insurers not
hammer specific makes or groups of pilots unless their is real proof that
higher rates are warranted and can be supported by hard numbers.

Sounds like the kind of person we need more of in the FAA. However, I
had to laugh at the above statement. I'll bet that the insurance
companies are far more rigorous in their actuarial assessments than
almost anyone else in aviation. I'd like to see the FAA even half as
rigorous in making decisions based on data instead of emotion or politics.


Matt