Gig 601Xl Builder wrote:
Curt Johnson wrote:
Steve Hix wrote:
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Curt Johnson wrote:

Ricky wrote:
Do you think it would make for a safer driver?

Ricky
The evidence would be if an auto insurance company offered discounts
to pilots. Their actuaries don't miss much.

Might could be a small enough group for them to safely ignore.

Progressive gives me a couple hundred bucks a year discount for
belonging to IEEE, which has 375,000 members worldwide. There were
624,007 certificated pilots in the U.S. in January 2008 according to
the FAA.

That discount isn't because IEEE membership means you are a safer driver.

California Proposition 103 requires personal automobile insurance rates
to be determined using only factors that have a substantial relationship
to the risk of loss (Ca. Insurance Code Section 1861.02a).

The discount can only mean that membership in IEEE and other qualifying
organizations indicates that, statistically, you are a safer driver.

I waded through the list of qualifying organizations on the Progressive
web site. Air traffic controllers qualify. Pilots do not.