Do We REALLY Have ALL The Facts? Each year, the AOPA Air Safety Foundation publishes a statistical report of general aviation accidents. This is called the Nall Report. It's named after Joseph P. Nall, an NTSB Board member who died as a passenger in an airplane crash in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1989. Regrettably, based upon the paucity of new information contained in each annual Nall Report, I'm likely one of only a dozen or so people who actually read the 2010 edition cover-to-cover. I did so this year in the vain hope of discovering something other than the positive spin on our chronic fatal accident rate that its editors and statisticians so dutifully apply year after year. Instead, it was the same findings, rationals, and defense of an industry that should be ashamed of

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“There is currently no way of knowing for certain what impact ANY changes we make in the GA system has or will have on our fatal accident rate. None, nothing, nada. We're only guessing - and that ain't no way to run an airline. So, nay-sayers, and that includes you, AOPA, let's get behind this effort to objectively quantify our annual hours flown by aircraft type, make and model. When you do so and this system is finally implemented, the Nall Report will finally offer genuine benefit to the industry. Until then, it's simply another way to spend member pilot dollars in a totally non-effective way. Flying has risks. Choose wisely." Source: CFI Bob Miller... in Monday's Guest Editorial bemoaning the lack of hard stats in look