"Snowbird" wrote:
Anyway, here's the question: how DO we reduce
the accident rate? How do we preach, not just to
the choir, but to the 80-90% of pilots who *don't*
attend WINGS seminars or other
recurrant training?


Wow, talk about your $64 question!

I dunno Sydney, I think we might have reached a natural, human factors
limit on GA safety under the current regulations: note the more-or-less
flat statistics of recent years. And it really doesn't appear that new
technology is the answer, NASA's pipedreams notwithstanding.

Unless we want to have more stringent rules that further restrict what
private pilots can do, I can't think of a way we can reach the less
safety conscious members of the pilot population, unless it's with
heat-seeking missiles.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM