David Megginson writes: > For example, private and student pilots with 100-149 hours accounted > for 309 fatal aircraft accidents in the U.S. from 1983 to 2000, while > private and student pilots with 350-399 hours accounted for 109 > accidents. Who's more dangerous? It depends on how many pilots there > were in each category and how much they flew. If there were three > times as many pilots with 100-149 hours as 350-399 hours -- or, more > importantly, if pilots in the 350-399 hour category flew three times > as many hours as the less experienced pilots -- then the fatal > accident rate for the more experienced pilots was actually higher.
OK, I'm obviously sleepy today after my flight last night. Everywhere I wrote "three times", replace with "a third", and the math might actually make sense. All the best, David _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
