Fed: Planes flying in "commercial" airspace must get GPS

On Jun 3, 12:22*am, "Stephen!" wrote:
a wrote in news:ad2f4ec2-e6ff-4630-a104-cc9246ac9f22
@j12g2000pri.googlegroups.com:



Recent studies of midair collisions involving aircraft by the National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that:

* * Most of the aircraft involved in collisions are engaged in
recreational flying, not on any type of flight plan.

* * Most midair collisions occur in VFR weather conditions during
weekend daylight hours.

* * The vast majority of accidents occurred at or near uncontrolled
airports and at altitudes below 1000 feet.

* * Pilots of all experience levels were involved in midair
collisions, from pilots on their first solo ride, to 20,000-hour
veterans.

* * Flight instructors were on board the aircraft 37 percent of the
accidents in the study.

* * Most collisions occur in daylight with visibility greater than 3
miles.

Here's how you can contribute to professional flying and reduce the
odds of becoming involved in a midair collision.

* Lessee... *According to the "statistics", your best bet of successfully
accomplishing a flight without a mid-air collision is to: *Fly only at
night in low visibilty conditions, away from any airport, above 1000 feet,
with a flight instructor, and only during week days...

* Damn, how I love statistics.

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On a personal note, I tend to feel 'safer' when the weather is worse
than marginal VFR and the kids (sorry for the demeaning phraseology)
stay on the ground. Paying attention to the information I offered may
cause some to choose to fly differently than the way they were taught
when around uncontrolled airports, or for that matter in other phases
of flight as well. I've learned from other posters here and
incorporated some of their ideas into my own flying, and made note of
my 'deviations' from standard techniques and think some pilots have
adopted some of them for their own use.

The sort of discussion about what might be safer flying is a worthy
use of RAP but the density of interesting information is pretty low.