I doubt you'll find glider crash rates per km. Hours, yes.
What is the average speed of a motorcycle on the
roads. I'll say 60km/h based on driving a car with a car computer a few times.
That gives you around one crash per 1600 hours or
so for motorcycles. I guess this is crashes not
fatals? If so sounds about right for gliders too.
Mike
At 10:58 AM 3/4/2016, you wrote:
On 4/03/2016 10:44 AM, DMcD wrote:
And I don't think you could compare gliding
with motorcycle riding (racing maybe). In terms
of deaths per hundred thousand rider or comp
pilot hours, you'd find a difference of several
orders of magnitude. We have whatâ 2500
pilots active in Australia? And how many die each year? 1-2?
FWIW, I can help a bit with that question. Good
road traffic exposure data can be a bit hard to
come by, but a bit of searching found a paper*
reporting motorcycle crash rates for NSW from (I
think) 2004, and they said: "The mean crash rate
(based on self-reported crash involvement) was 0.96 crashes/100,000 km".
Now, if anyone has crash data and exposure
figures for glider pilots (measured in km
travelled) then we can see how glider fatalities
compare with motorcycle fatalities, should we so desire.
Teal
*Source: Harrison, W. A., & Christie, R. (2005).
Exposure survey of motorcyclists in New South
Wales. /Accident Analysis & Prevention/, /37/(3), 441-451.
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