On Aug 28, 6:56 pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:
On Aug 28, 4:08 pm, Luke Skywalker wrote:

On Aug 28, 5:52 pm, wrote:

The "speed" of the airplane is largely irrelevant to safety. It is a
part of it, one has to think faster at 300 knts then at 100...but my
experience is that the same mistakes that happen at 100 knots just
happen faster at 300...

If you read Richard Collins he has long shown stasticial correlations
between accident rates and speed in owner flown GA. For instance the
Mooney has more accidents than the nearly identical (but slower)
Arrow. Richard's theory is that the more speed the plane has the more
weather systems and variety of environments you encounter. I tend to
agree with him.

The insurance cost will be "higher".

Yea, my student had a similar model Mooney to mine and he paid an
extra $4K per year for insurance.

Hello

I've read Richard Collins for a long time and who the heck am I to
disagree with him....but I do and I dont.

I do in that I think that the faster the airplane flies, the more
complex etc the more likely flaws in the decision making process are
going to be exposed...but I disagree in that I think that the flaws
are still the same wheather it is an ultralight or a B-757. It is
just the issue of when the error chain starts backing up fast enough
so that it is unrecoverable and then finally fatal.

My take is that I dont have a very good view on "MOST" of the private
pilot training programs that are out there. They are not very
"rigorized" meaning that methods and procedures are not stressed from
day 1 and drilled into students. Hence very quickly after the private
people start originating with little competence their own methods.
My first, non government but he was a product of government and
airline training programs, instructor was methodical about "inspiring"
Into me a "rhythum" of procedures and that was when we were just
flying the Cub. There was nothing that was "seat of the pants".

I dont see that in a lot of people, even when they get ready to go for
the commuter airline ranks. Now most of them will put that into the
folks or the folks leave......but my experience is that the speed
(velocity) of the plane while important pales behind getting a method
down and using it.

Robert