Unicom
May 2002 Issue
Improving Stats
Recording aircraft times is part of an annual inspection. Why not report it?
The article “Why Twins Crash” [Safety Analysis, March] calls attention to our industry’s continued insistence on attempting to analyze the hazards of flight with one eye blind. I’m referring to the inexplicable failure to institute a simple method of determining the number of hours we actually fly each year.
For some time I have been attempting, without success, to advance an idea (someone else had) whose time is long overdue. Were mechanics required to send in a post card after each annual inspection detailing the make and model of the airplane and its hours flown, anyone else with an interest would have accurate data on the number of hours flown by each type of aircraft in the fleet.
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