Re: RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Lower cost S-LSA airplanes

You'll need to check with Avemco on that.  They are great people to talk to so I encourage you to do so.  I just called them for some basic numbers to fact check a misinformation campaign the FAA eastern Region FAATeam has put out.  They actually have a sign in the lobby of our FSDO where our students sit and wait for their student pilot certificates stating that the fatality rate for LSAs and experimentals is higher than for GA planes.  According to Avemco, if you factor out the experimentals, the SLSA fatality rate isn't any higher but the accident rate is twice as high.

Helen


Aug 24, 2011 10:12:36 AM, Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com wrote:

Hi Helen,

Can you ask the basis of the rate comparison? Is it for instance, per plane per year insured? Is it per operation (takeoff+landing)? Is it per number of flying hours? Each one would give radically different answers.

 

Thanks,

Bill Watson

bill@sportpilot.info

 

From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Helen Woods
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 8:07 AM
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Lower cost S-LSA airplanes

 

SLSAs.  Experimental rate is even higher.  Source was VP of underwriting at Avemco.


Aug 24, 2011 10:02:47 AM, Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Posted by: "Helen Woods" Helen_Woods@verizon.net
>
> More than that. You can get some quotes from Denise:
>
> Denise Porter
> Aviation West Insurance Brokers, LLC
> P.O. Box 1509
> Vista, CA 92085-1509
> T. (760) 727-7444
> F. (760) 727-7555
>
> Be prepared for sticker shock (especially if you plan to let people solo
> it) but remember while the fatality rat for SLSAs is the same, the
> accident rate for SLSA is twice as high as for GA planes. Beleive it or
> not though, that's not your biggest deciding factor when hundting for a
> plane though. I actually co-wrote an article for Mentor about how to buy
> a flight school LSA. I've dropped it on my web site to take a look at:
>
> http://www.helenshangar.com/articles/woods-lsa.pdf
> Helen


Helen,

When you said,
"the accident rate for SLSA is twice as high as for GA planes",
did you actually mean for all LSA, or just SLSA?

And, what is your source for that statistic?


Thanks,
Mike




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