Buying a used home-built?

Thomas Borchert wrote in
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Jay,

as far as I know, the accident rate with experimentals is WAY higher
than with "spam cans". What's the reason for that? Is it building
quality?


Pure Urban legend... do the research before you spout such poppycock!

I don't have time to research it right now, but there was a guy on
either r.a.piloting or r.a.homebuilt who ran the numbers recently, the
REAL numbers and outside the 40 hr testing period (which is why it's
there), the homebuilt numbers were almost as good as the certified
numbers. You can't just run the numbers for all GA against all
homebuilts, you have to compare apples to apples. Compare single engine
LIGHT GA against homebuilts and you now have a truer picture.

Again, once you take out the testing phase for homebuilts, your real
close. Although, other than the testing phase, it's not just that
homebuilts are safer than you thought, it's also that comparable light
GA is a bit more unsafe than you thought, since "GA" statistics ussually
include light scheduled and light charter carriers.

BeaglePig

"BeaglePig" wrote:

Pure Urban legend... do the research before you spout such poppycock!

I don't have time to research it right now, but there was a guy on
either r.a.piloting or r.a.homebuilt...

Very convincing.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Dan,

Pure Urban legend... do the research before you spout such poppycock!

I don't have time to research it right now, but there was a guy on
either r.a.piloting or r.a.homebuilt...

Very convincing.


I had to smile - thought the same thing. My recollection is that AOPA
wrote about the higher accident rate in Pilot magazine recently.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

"Dan Luke" wrote in
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"BeaglePig" wrote:

Pure Urban legend... do the research before you spout such poppycock!

I don't have time to research it right now, but there was a guy on
either r.a.piloting or r.a.homebuilt...

Very convincing.

Thanks, just as convincing as the original post.....

Ok, now that I had a moment to research, the post was by Ron Wanttaja
who also was/is the author of an article in Kitplanes magazine in the
October issue. Maybe someone who subscribes to Kitplanes can grace us
with a summery of the article.

BeaglePig

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:42:31 GMT, BeaglePig wrote:

Thanks, just as convincing as the original post.....

Ok, now that I had a moment to research, the post was by Ron Wanttaja
who also was/is the author of an article in Kitplanes magazine in the
October issue. Maybe someone who subscribes to Kitplanes can grace us
with a summery of the article.

I posted just such a summary to this group less than three weeks ago. How time
flies when you're having fun...

http://tinyurl.com/4r3mh

Ron Wanttaja