Thomas Borchert wrote in
:

Jay,

as far as I know, the accident rate with experimentals is WAY higher
than with "spam cans". What's the reason for that? Is it building
quality?


Pure Urban legend... do the research before you spout such poppycock!

I don't have time to research it right now, but there was a guy on
either r.a.piloting or r.a.homebuilt who ran the numbers recently, the
REAL numbers and outside the 40 hr testing period (which is why it's
there), the homebuilt numbers were almost as good as the certified
numbers. You can't just run the numbers for all GA against all
homebuilts, you have to compare apples to apples. Compare single engine
LIGHT GA against homebuilts and you now have a truer picture.

Again, once you take out the testing phase for homebuilts, your real
close. Although, other than the testing phase, it's not just that
homebuilts are safer than you thought, it's also that comparable light
GA is a bit more unsafe than you thought, since "GA" statistics ussually
include light scheduled and light charter carriers.

BeaglePig