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Old 2nd Aug 2006, 13:19
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robsrich
 
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You are very lucky - stats speaking.

Topendtorque's observation is spot on - accident stats suggest that not many survive an R22 that has caught on fire.

The cause would have to be a decent impact with something. The rarely catch on fire by comparison.

On another matter, I was painfully going through ATSB incidents over a few years - to up date a course; and noticed an extra ordinary number of control zone penetrations, ignoring ATC instructions, crossing runways when told not too; being inside CTR before getting a clearance, etc.

Now in the day of GPS; what is going wrong?

None of the other light aircraft groups have the same trend, and they out number us 10:1. So they should have heaps too - but they don't seem to as much.

Any ideas - is it a lack of maps, rusty map reading, or not having a suitable chart?

Makes us look a little dumb. The starch wing guys can look down their nose at us here??

Just an odd observation.

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