On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:25:27 +0000 (UTC), (Paul
Tomblin) wrote:

In a previous article, "Dan Luke" said:
If you have any numbers other than sneering, please provide them.

Experimentals comprise 10.4% of the GA fleet
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U1842322A but, according to the 2003 ASF
Nall report, historically produce 17% of the fatal accidents. From the
report:

The biggest weakness with the Nall report, and one which they admit in the
report itself, is that they don't have "per flight hour" figures. If home
builders are more likely to get out and fly their aircraft rather than let
them sit mouldering with weeds growing through the landing gear, than the
higher proportion of accidents means nothing. On the other hand, if the
non-experimentals get flown on long distance night IFR while the
experimentals get flown for local $100 hamburger runs, those figures might
be covering up a much worse accident rate.

We'll probably never really know the true answers, until somebody makes a
long term comprehensive study of hours flown and types of flying versus
accidents across the whole fleet.

Ahem. KITPLANES magazine, October 2004.

Ron "self-plugging" Wanttaja