Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
The increasing percentage of Loss of Control accidents. Can you imagine what the safety record would be like if pilots could still fly aeroplanes?
What is the trend in LOC _rate_ per flight-hour or flight-mile?
% of accidents that are LOC is meaningless - a decrease in other causes will increase %LOC without any degradation in pilot skills. Reasons for decrease in other causes OTOH - better hardware engineering, GPS reducing NAV failures, better weather forecasting, EGWPS reducing CFIT, and probably some others I've forgotten. Of course if that was the case what we'd see is overall declining trend... which is what we do see.