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Old 8th Sep 2011, 14:54
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GarageYears
 
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Meaningless statistics

To those posting % numbers of hulls built, this is a meaningless statistic.

I built 10 aircraft of type A and fly them 1 time per year for 10 years.... 1 crashes.

I built 10 aircraft of type B and fly them once every day for 10 years..... 1 crashes.

Which one is safer?

There are perhaps 2 meaningful statistics:

- hull loses per million miles flown
- hull loses per flight segment

Take your pick, but a crude % lost from hulls built is a useless number.

- GY
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