The FAA expects to make the largest gains in the first five years of the program by attacking "low-hanging fruit". Included is an effort to boost safety for agricultural operators and a new advisory circular (AC) the agency expects to publish by May focusing on the amateur-built aircraft sector, which Babbitt says has a fatal accident rate five times higher than GA as a whole.
Hopefully they will just focus on this:
Babbitt calls the problem a "second-owner risk", where a buyer of an amateur-built aircraft may not be familiar with principles of high performance aircraft like high wing-loading. "There's a very clear spike in accident rate versus ownership hours," he says. "Once they get 50-60h, they're fine."
Still scary to b thought of as "..low hanging fruit.." to the FAA....!
