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October 4th 05, 08:51 PM
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"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com... Dresher wrote: "You're mistaken. The Nall report has always expressed accident and fatality rates as a function of hours flown. Otherwise, the rates would not be meaningful as measures of safety" OK. I thought they only pointed to the raw accident and fatality stats, which as you pointed out would be meaningless statistically. (Of course, the press will just report on the percentage increase in fatalities without normalizing for flight hours, which is ok by me.) No, you're mistaken there too. The press seldom reports on GA accident statistics, but when they do, they express the rates per hour of activity, since that's the form in which the information is provided by the organizations that keep track of such things. (See, for example, Sunday's San Diego Union-Tribune, which mentions the GA accident rate of 6.6 per 100,000 hours of flying.) --Gary 
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