"Skylune" wrote in message
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Dresher wrote: "You're mistaken. The Nall report has always expressed
accident and
fatality
rates as a function of hours flown. Otherwise, the rates would not be
meaningful as measures of safety"

OK. I thought they only pointed to the raw accident and fatality stats,
which as you pointed out would be meaningless statistically. (Of course,
the press will just report on the percentage increase in fatalities
without normalizing for flight hours, which is ok by me.)

No, you're mistaken there too. The press seldom reports on GA accident
statistics, but when they do, they express the rates per hour of activity,
since that's the form in which the information is provided by the
organizations that keep track of such things. (See, for example, Sunday's
San Diego Union-Tribune, which mentions the GA accident rate of 6.6 per
100,000 hours of flying.)

--Gary