Unicom: 07/04

Who’s Safer?
As a lifetime subscriber to your magazine I just want to tell you what a great job you are doing. Your magazine has made me a much better pilot. I do have a question, though: Have you done any studies regarding high-time pilot accidents vs. low-time pilot accidents (GA only)? Are high-time pilots safer (or at least involved in fewer accidents) than low-time pilots? Seems to me that for every 200-300 hour pilot who has an accident, there is 2000-3000 hour pilot who has an accident as well.

-Kevin Hughes
Via e-mail

We’re glad you keep coming back, Kevin.

To answer your question, we turned to the NTSB, and its “Annual Review of Aircraft Accid...

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