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Old 9th Jan 2012, 02:24
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englishal

 
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I don't believe Gengis's statistics....

The NTSB stats show that a GA pilot has about a 1:100,000 FLIGHT HOUR chance of being killed....So if you get to 100,000 hrs in your log book then your number is up. Few will get to 20,000, most a couple of thousand I imagine. And of those 100,000 hrs, some are engaged in more dangerous flying....

Unless Euro registered aeroplanes are so much more dangerous than N registered aeroplanes and pilots of course (which might be the case).....

For comparison, scheduled air transport accident rate is about 1.5 per million flight hours (that is ACCIDENT rates though, not fatalities.)
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