CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 34

Chief's Corner

I WAS RECENTLY SITTING ON A SAFETY PANEL
FOR A STATE AVIATION CONFERENCE WHEN A
YOUNG MAN IN THE AUDIENCE STOOD UP TO
ASK A QUESTION RELATED TO A FLYING CLUB HE
WANTED TO START.
He said that parents and staff at the school were
worried about the risks associated with flying.
How do you handle that? A gentleman on the panel
began discussing how aviation has been given a bad
rap, and I leapt into the discussion in my "defend
general aviation" mode and said the unspeakable
in aviation safety circles: I said that there are way
fewer fatalities in aviation than in other modes of
transportation like, for example, motorcycles. I

saw an audience member about to object to my
statement, and I quickly tried to backtrack...but
it was too late. The rest of the panel was a freefor-all lashing out at what I had said.
I was wrong to relate aviation fatalities to
motorcycle fatalities for several reasons.
First-although it is true that aviation has way
fewer fatalities than motorcycles, a truer measure
of relative safety is the "accident rate," which is
a number we don't have a perfectly full grasp of.
As ASI's resident statistician always reminds us,
without good data, it's very difficult to calculate the
real rates for either motorcycle or general aviation

aircraft accidents. What we really need
is good, accurate data about how many
hours are traveled in each-a somewhat
challenging number to get. (By the way, this
is a great reason to ﬁll out those GA activity
surveys you get in the mail from the FAA.)
Second-looking at "aviation's" accident
rate is very different from looking at
"general aviation's" accident rate. If you
bring the airlines' huge number of ﬂight
hours and extremely low accident numbers
into the mix, you are not getting a picture of
the GA accident rate at all, which is really
what we're most concerned about here.

CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2

CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Vol. 5, Issue 2
Arrival & Approach Briefings
Safety Seminar: Real World Weather
CFI Commentary: Talking to ATC
CFI Tips: Density Altitude - An Experiment
ASI Message: Landing Attitude
Real Pilot Story: Fire in the Cockpit
Safety Spotlight: Into the Unknown
ASI Online: In Review - Storm Week
Safety Quiz: Non-Precision Approach at CEC
CFI Tools: Passenger Safety Briefing
Chief's Corner: Flying is as Safe as You Make It
Pilot Safety Announcement: School Daze
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CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Arrival & Approach Briefings
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 4
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 5
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 6
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 7
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 8
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 9
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Safety Seminar: Real World Weather
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - CFI Commentary: Talking to ATC
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 12
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 13
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 14
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 15
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 16
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - CFI Tips: Density Altitude - An Experiment
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 18
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 19
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - ASI Message: Landing Attitude
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 21
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Real Pilot Story: Fire in the Cockpit
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 23
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Safety Spotlight: Into the Unknown
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 25
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 26
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 27
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - ASI Online: In Review - Storm Week
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 29
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Safety Quiz: Non-Precision Approach at CEC
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 31
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - CFI Tools: Passenger Safety Briefing
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Chief's Corner: Flying is as Safe as You Make It
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