On Aug 28, 4:08 pm, Luke Skywalker wrote:
On Aug 28, 5:52 pm, wrote:


The "speed" of the airplane is largely irrelevant to safety. It is a
part of it, one has to think faster at 300 knts then at 100...but my
experience is that the same mistakes that happen at 100 knots just
happen faster at 300...

If you read Richard Collins he has long shown stasticial correlations
between accident rates and speed in owner flown GA. For instance the
Mooney has more accidents than the nearly identical (but slower)
Arrow. Richard's theory is that the more speed the plane has the more
weather systems and variety of environments you encounter. I tend to
agree with him.

The insurance cost will be "higher".

Yea, my student had a similar model Mooney to mine and he paid an
extra $4K per year for insurance.