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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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john smith wrote:

"Taking the chance on being delayed in an airport just won't work,"
Green said. "You have to be there Friday morning for practice or you
miss practice. Miss practice, and they don't let you attempt to
qualify."

Sounds like a recipe for "gottagetthereitis" to me.

This could be said for pretty much every type of corporate aviation. And yet
the safety record is pretty exemplary.

Good equipment kept in good operating condition with a well-trained 2-pilot
flight crew will make nearly any flight with safety. The airlines have
proven this.

GGT-itis typically kills light GA pilots by tempting them into weather that
either they or the airplane are not capable of handling. That does not
appear to be the primary factor here, though it goes without saying that
2-pilot planes do not generally impact terrain in VMC.

Given that accident rates on ILSs seem to be significantly lower than on
non-precision approaches (for both light GA and corporate) I was just
thinking that we should really be pushing for more LNAV/VNAV and LPV
approaches as a safety issue. I wonder how many crashes have occurred on
missed approaches that might have been avoided had LPV minima been available
and capable of getting the plane into the airport.

-cwk.