Mike S
Senior Curmudgeon
Home built planes up in numbers, and down in accidents.
http://www.eaa.org/news/2011/Report_Homebuilders2011_v5.pdf
http://www.eaa.org/news/2011/Report_Homebuilders2011_v5.pdf
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Good news from EAA report
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flyingriki
Well Known Member
Mike,
Who ya gonna believe.....?
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....!
Who ya gonna believe.....?
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....!
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