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  1. 11-16-2016, 12:57 PM #1
    Bill Greenwood
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    Accident Rate Improvent

    Accident rates have improved, no joking.
    I was looking on the AOPA website and saw the graph of accident rates which looks good and heading in the right direction.
    From 1994 to 2015. NTSB shows the overall accident rate dropped from 8.45 to 4.66 and more importantly the fatal accident rate is down from 1.73 to .89.
    These are given per 100,000 flight hours I believe.
    Anyway that is roughly a 55% and 51% improvement. I dont know if 94 was a particularly bad year, but the 2015 figures show this improvement. Still the 376 fatalities are too many, The source says about half of all fatals are loss of control which seems to be mostly a piloting isssue not tech or weather so much.
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  2. 11-17-2016, 07:38 AM #2
    martymayes
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    A not so optimistic sign is the number of active piston airplanes in the fleet are decreasing, so I would guess the hrs flown by that segment are decreasing as well. Turbine fleet is growing and a general observation is a turbine guy gets more training which should translate to lower accident rates.
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