Helicopter Accident Stats
I have been musing recently over our internal accident rate / 100,000 hrs and have come to ponder whether a more relevant rate should be applied to the rotor world.
In our company, with a large fleet of SE VFR aircraft, we average about 60000 hrs each year with an average # of landings of 3.3 landings per flight hr - about 200,000 landings per year.
Now - do most RW accidents happen near Mother Earth? Bladestrikes, CFIT, etc. Would it make sense to use accidents / 100,000 landings? In the FW world, what is the applicable #? 3 hrs of flight per landing? For 60,000 hrs of flying, that would be only 20,000 landings. Would this logic lead to a stats bank that would lend it self to more relevant comparisons?
Just some questions to start a discussion - Is there a better way to study incident / accident data with a goal to have the analysis reveal different solutions to the issue of RW accidents?
Fire away ...
wde