accidents

With the risk of revealing your age... (I mean, flight hours) do you recall what was the first aviation-related book you read? Do you still keep it on your bookshelf? (Share a pic or link if you want) Here's mine: "The Killing Zone". A book that may scare the s*** out of many aspiring pilots but...

Initial report of 53% reduction in accidents overall and 89% reduction in fatal accidents with use of ADS-B In. If this holds up, that is an impressive reduction. Much more significant that a lot of training programs combined...

Well, as promised (threatened?) here's the result of attempting to compute the Fleet Accident Rate for several common aircraft. I used the NTSB accident database, for the period from January 1 2010 to December 1 2016. I computed a fleet size for each aircraft based on the January 1 2017 FAA...