My intial post wasnt about data collecting - I was just interested to see amoung the higher time pilots what their personal experience was.
Of course as with all things if it were a scientific data collecting excercise issues like maintenance would average out. You would have some pilots who always flew the same aircraft, were highly selective about their maintenance organisations and always overhauled their engines at the first sign of trouble. Clearly their failure rate would probably be much lower than anyone elses.
However, as I said, that wasnt the purpose of the post - it was purely a straw pilot to see how many people had got between 1,000 and 1,500 hours and had a failure (or indeed a failure on less hours) and how the failure rate progressed as their hours went beyond 1,500.
.. .. .. so please keep the comments coming
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.. .. .. and also if you have had a failure, whether or not you handled it by the book - that would also be an interesting discussion.