A & C, Do you have a reference to the magazine article? I have heard the same figures quoted but have been unable to find the source.
If you don't fly at night, you are loosing an awful lot of utility from your aircraft, particularly in the UK winter. There was talk some years ago of the PFA moving towards allowing night and IMC flight in suitably equiped PFA aircraft, but they don't appear to have made any progress. I assume the recent efforts have quite rightly been put into the NPPL. Even so, I'm surprised that we are still banned from even flying at night in all PFA aircraft. I am not aware of any statistics showing PFA aircraft to have more failures than C of A aircraft. Does anyone else know of any such data?