Originally Posted by
Timbo
How do they track the 100,000 hrs. in the GA world? Who reports the time they put on their private plane? And to whom do they report it?
It would be interesting to see how many days/months it's taking to amass the 100,000hrs. in the GA community, and compare today's number to years past, see if there's less GA flying going on now, same, or more, per month, then tie that to the accident rates.
I have no idea. That is why I was asking.
Do they track any metric like number of flights or hours or anything other than just the number of accidents/mishaps/deaths?
The original article I referenced said they realized that flying was down and that might be part of the reason for better safety statistics, but was that using common sense that the weather had been so poor that there just had to be less flying? What if the weather was a little bit better - would they make the same presumption?