Crash Trends

"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
Looks like the 2005 Nall report won't be as upbeat. YTD August #s
looking
pretty bad for GA, and that's before what seems a pretty bad September.

The AOPA spinners will have to work hard on next year to keep the rose
colored glasses tinted.

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/curr_mo.txt

Until you normalize according to the number of hours flown, you don't know
if the accident rate has increased, decreased, or stayed the same.

--Gary

I've always wondered why the FAA doesn't track hours flown. It should be as
simple as having every IA report the total hours since the last annual on
every aircraft they inspect.


"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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Until you normalize according to the number of hours flown, you don't know
if the accident rate has increased, decreased, or stayed the same.

--Gary

Steve Foley wrote:

I've always wondered why the FAA doesn't track hours flown.

They do. They ask at every medical exam.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

I might be wrong on this, but don't they also "ask" if you are taking
illegal drugs, are an alcoholic, or take proscribed medications (like
anti-depressants)? I'll ask my buddy who flies out of ISP, but I don't
think they make you pee in the jar....

Actually, they do make you pee in a cup, but they only test it for sugar.

Many years ago, I worked for Elkay Products, a medical laboratory
disposables manufacturer. About the only thing we made that anyone could
recognize was a specimen cup. Invariably, someone would neglect to buy cups
for the christmas party, so we would run out back and grab a stack off the
production line. And if you didn't finish your egg-nog, you could get a
leak-proof cap and bring it home.

"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
I might be wrong on this, but don't they also "ask" if you are taking
illegal drugs, are an alcoholic, or take proscribed medications (like
anti-depressants)? I'll ask my buddy who flies out of ISP, but I don't
think they make you pee in the jar....

LMAO. Drinking egg-nog from a specimin container. But why on earth does
the FAA care if you are a diabetic, but couldn't care less about whether
you are a coke head? More weirdness.....

"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
LMAO. Drinking egg-nog from a specimin container. But why on earth does
the FAA care if you are a diabetic, but couldn't care less about whether
you are a coke head? More weirdness.....


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DW

Skylune wrote:
LMAO. Drinking egg-nog from a specimin container. But why on earth does
the FAA care if you are a diabetic, but couldn't care less about whether
you are a coke head? More weirdness.....

Because for all we know cokeheads are better than average pilots. The
number of fatalities where cocaine use is implicated has probably never
exceeded ten per year. More people are probably killed when they spill
hot coffee in their lap in their cars. Why on earth doesn't the dep't
of motor vehicles test for caffeine?

It's worse drinking Chardonnay out of a specimen cup.

Jim



"Steve Foley" wrote in message
news:SRy0f.17$7P5.1@trndny07...

.. Invariably, someone would neglect to buy cups
for the christmas party, so we would run out back and grab a stack off the
production line. And if you didn't finish your egg-nog, you could get a
leak-proof cap and bring it home.

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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It's worse drinking Chardonnay out of a specimen cup.

Jim




Seems redundant...

Jay B