12 dead this weekend from GA crashes

Daily US Death Toll (2001 data from National Center for Health
Statistics)

Heart Disease .........1909 (Let's outlaw fatty foods and mandate
exercise)

Cancer.............1527 (Let's outlaw tobacco, mandate bran, or
whatever is supposed to prevent cancer)

Stroke........446 (More cigarettes anf food laws)

Chronic lower respiratory diseases.......342 (and still more...)

Accidents............292 (Get rid of them damn cars ...except my
convertible mini cooper ...)

Oh, and by the way, when we reduce the death rate by mandating
behavior, we're probably going to have to require contraception to
accompany our immigration laws.

When all of this is done, I'm willing to be next in line for adding
more regulation to general aviation.

by Michael 182 Feb 6, 2006
at 09:13 AM


Daily US Death Toll (2001 data from National Center for Health
Statistics)

Heart Disease .........1909 (Let's outlaw fatty foods and mandate
exercise)

Cancer.............1527 (Let's outlaw tobacco, mandate bran, or
whatever is supposed to prevent cancer)

Stroke........446 (More cigarettes anf food laws)

Chronic lower respiratory diseases.......342 (and still more...)

Accidents............292 (Get rid of them damn cars ...except my
convertible mini cooper ...)

Oh, and by the way, when we reduce the death rate by mandating
behavior, we're probably going to have to require contraception to
accompany our immigration laws.

When all of this is done, I'm willing to be next in line for adding
more regulation to general aviation.

Denial. Others agree with me (see AOPA message boards) that standards
for pilot proficiency must be toughened.

Since you are comparing GA death rates to disease death rates: do you
consider GA to be a disease?

Another post noted that 12 people died this past weekend. Do we post
every car accident and death, death from diseases and accidents?

Bottom line is that many accidents/deaths are due to pilot error and
it appears that no one (at least the others who are killed in similar
stupid acts) learns from these accidents.

You can't legislate or mandate by FAR common sense. So people will
continue to die for doing stupid things.

Ron Lee

Ron Lee wrote:

Another post noted that 12 people died this past weekend.

That particular poster has a reputation of simply stirring the pot and has
posted many anti-GA rants in the past. In my case, I KF'ed him long ago.

Do we post
every car accident and death, death from diseases and accidents?

Personally, as an active GA pilot I am interested in reading about aircraft
accidents and do not mind the recent surge of postings.

--
Peter

"Peter R." wrote:
Do we post
every car accident and death, death from diseases and accidents?

Personally, as an active GA pilot I am interested in reading about aircraft
accidents and do not mind the recent surge of postings.

This should provide hours of reading:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/month.asp

Ron Lee

Ron Lee wrote:
"Peter R." wrote:

Do we post
every car accident and death, death from diseases and accidents?

Personally, as an active GA pilot I am interested in reading about aircraft
accidents and do not mind the recent surge of postings.


This should provide hours of reading:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/month.asp

I used to read that for hours in college when we had class in the
computer lab. I learned that I'm really not the dumbest person up there
flying.

Rachel wrote:

This should provide hours of reading:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/month.asp

I used to read that for hours in college when we had class in the
computer lab. I learned that I'm really not the dumbest person up there
flying.

Women usually aren't the problem. Case in point...look at the male to
female ratio in the prison population.

Ron Lee

Maybe external air bags on aircraft. Then they cannot crash. Cirrus
already has a parachute.

Can any vehicle really be made idiot proof?

Ron Lee wrote:

This should provide hours of reading:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/month.asp

I suspect your suggestion is not really sincere. In response, here is
another useless suggestion: If you don't like the accident posts, use your
newsreader's "Ignore Thread" feature. Or better still, create a filter to
do it for you.

In any event, while I will periodically scan the NTSB reports, I prefer the
analysis-style articles found in /NTSB Reporter/ and /Aviation Safety/.


--
Peter

"Peter R." wrote:

Ron Lee wrote:

This should provide hours of reading:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/month.asp

I suspect your suggestion is not really sincere. In response, here is
another useless suggestion: If you don't like the accident posts, use your
newsreader's "Ignore Thread" feature. Or better still, create a filter to
do it for you.

In any event, while I will periodically scan the NTSB reports, I prefer the
analysis-style articles found in /NTSB Reporter/ and /Aviation Safety/.


--
Peter

And you are able to judge sincerity how?

Ron Lee