The accident rate for dual is not bad, it is when pilots go
into the wild and have trouble on unmarked waterways,
wilderness rivers and lakes that the accident rates go up.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

"Rachel" wrote in message
...
| Doug wrote:
| If you tell us where you are, maybe we can help you.
|
| I live in North Texas, and it looks like there are a few
possibilities,
| but I'm reconsidering the idea after reading the next
part....
|
| The high accident rate (and most of the accidents aren't
too
| serious, just expensive), is due to taxiing, beaching
and docking,
| which are problematic. (Taxi over a sharp rock, run the
plane up onto
| rocks, punch a hole in the floats with a nail sticking
out of a dock,
| drift into a boat while trying to get started, land on
waves that are
| too big and break a strut, that sort of thing).
|
| I just don't need an accident on my record.