"Marco Leon" mmleon(at)yahoo.com wrote in message
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I don't understand what you're saying here. There are definitely pilots out
there that have flown decades without a reportable accident. Are you
saying
that it isn't even remotely possible that an active private pilot can go
through their entire flying experience without an accident? Please
clarify.

Marco

Sure its possible, its even likely that the PP will survive his flying but
the fact remains that the only way for the private pilot to have the same
risk as the airline pilot is to be sitting in the back of an airliner.

There are a lot of things that make the airline safety record unapproachable
by GA, even turbojet corporate GA. Among them a

1 Airlines fly into the largest airports and they never send a crew where
neither of them has been there before. The airports have to be certified
for Part 121 operations.
2 They fly the best equipment. FAR 25, multi engine turbojets for the most
part with huge radar antenna, heated-wing deice ect
3 The have a professional dispacher doing the flight planning
4 They always have two *highly trained* pilots trained to act as a crew.
There are very few, if any, private pilots who have the experience or
currency or an airline pilot, nor do they have the training.

When you contrast this to even excellent private pilots, it is apparant why
GA will never be as safe as airline flying. The airlines fly to safer
airports, fly safer airplanes and have better pilots.

Mike
MU-2







"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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"Marco Leon" mmleon(at)yahoo.com wrote in message
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I think what he really meant was that there's no reason (when all is
said
and done) a private pilot can't end up with the same accident record as
an
airline captain.

Marco Leon

That isn't even remotely true.

Mike
MU-2


"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote in
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If your husband is in the habit of flying low over the ground,
showing
off
and taking unnecessary risks, then flying is not very safe at all.
If
he
flies "by the book," carefully weighing the risks created by
weather,
terrain, the condition of the airplane, and his own condition at the
time,
then he is probably as safe as any airline captain.

This is ridiculous. There is no area of GA flying that is even
remotely
comparable to airline flying in terms of safety.

Mike
MU-2