Oshkosh arrivals

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:09:03 -0700, "Peter Duniho"
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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I thought the time period under discussion was the week or so during
AirVenture, not per year.

Last I checked, AirVenture happens only once a year.

But the time period is one week. The frequency of AirVenture is once
annually, and not germane to this branch of the discussion tree.

[...]
Where did you get that figure? The total number of GA ACCIDENTS in
2004 was 1,413, and the total number of fatal accidents was 290
totaling 510 fatalities.


The point is, that the average rate of fatal accidents is 5.6/week,
but out of all the ~800,000* GA flying operations that occur each
week, 36% of the fatal operations occur during the AirVenture week
(based on two fatal accidents per event) occur at AirVenture. This
seems like a disproportionately large percentage of weekly fatal
accidents, but without AirVenture operational statistics, it's
difficult to quantify the magnitude of that percentage.

* http://www.aopa.org/special/newsroom.../activity.html


But, my point is, that here we have pilots making a rather large
national statement (AirVenture), but killing themselves in the public
view while doing it. That can't be good PR for GA.

So what?

So a nationally publicized GA event shouldn't be the poster child for
GA fatalities and incompetence.

My point is simply that you people who are surprised and dismayed crashes
happen at Oshkosh need a reality check. Especially about the "surprised"
part.

We disagree.

Without the AirVenture operational statistics, we'll never know who's
correct.