"Gig 601Xl Builder" wrote in message
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Jim Logajan wrote:
"Peter Dohm" wrote:
"Gig 601Xl Builder" wrote in message
news pgbnh wrote:
I don't think anyone installs BRS to save on insurance. More like
saving their life

Yet the money spent on a BRS would probably save more lives if it
were spent on training.
That is a certainty.

The portions of the posts providing supporting material for the above
assertions failed to reach my Usenet provider.

No doubt once pilots are trained to the rigorous standards applied to
ground vehicle drivers the accident rates of pilots will drop to the
levels seen by those drivers.

First, what the hell do ground vehicle drivers have to do with?

But there is lots of data out there that additional flight training
reduces accidents. I will pose as proof for that statement the fact that
an IR pilot will get a lower insurance rate than the same pilot with the
same total number of hours who doesn't have an IR.

I have little doubt that you are spot on with your evaluation. However the
reality is there's a lot of pilots out there that simply don't invest
anything in training other than the mandatory flight review every two years,
and even at that if they can find a buddy CFI that will endorse their log
book in exchange for a free lunch they certainly will. As a result, those
are the guys that are more likely to run out of fuel, inadvertently fly into
IMC or icing conditions, or whatever other jams they manage to get
themselves into.