EAB safety record improves
Posted:
Tue Nov 21, 2017 10:32 amby Sonex1517
Hi all
Great news recently if you missed it. The safety record for EAB improved dramatically in the past year.
GA news article here -
https://generalaviationnews.com/2017/11 ... ac28-79157
Re: EAB safety record improves
Posted:
Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:34 amby lutorm
That's of course good news, but my concern is that with only ~30 fatal accidents per year, there's a 1/3 chance that the number would be outside of the 21-39 range on any given year just from random variations, without any underlying real changes. We should be careful of claiming changes like these as causal since there's a large amount of random variation and when we get a random fluctuation to larger number of fatalities on some year people will claim that things are "going in the wrong direction" when it's really just noise.
Re: EAB safety record improves
Posted:
Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:37 amby DCASonex
Hope the improvement is real, but wonder how accurate the statement about increased hours is. Weather here in Western NY has been very poor for flying and my hours are down and from what i hear from other, I am not alone.
David A.