We have that now! and not just in SA. > If you want hoons forcing you out of thermals and breaking your club > gliders, by all means fee free to promote the sport as extreme... Just > keep them in South Australia please. > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/06/03 9:28:13 >>> > Michael > This is truly excellent stuff. At last someone has applied a > logical and "scientific" approach rather than just "spouting off their > opinion". I for one was one of those who used to just "spout of their > opinion", I can now spout some facts instead. > It is interesting however to consider how factors can skew the > statistics. I would suggest that comp. and X-country flying accidents > contribute heavily to the accident rates. Perhaps the statement > "Going for a passenger ride in a glider with a qualified AEI rated > pilot or instructor IS safer than driving on the road". I guess what > I am saying is that if we wish to portray gliding as a safe sport then > we need to carefully qualify our statement. > (On a related issue, it is interesting to note that some people I > talk to think that gliding is boring and un-exciting, some even go as > far as to call it a "Pussy" sport. Is the public perception of our > sport this? Do we need to change the way the public perceive our > sport to make gliding more popular? Extreme sports are very popular > these days because of the real and perceived risk. Radio > advertisements on MMM in Adelaide for a "Wild and Exciting aerobatic > flight in a glider" have produced surprisingly good results. Do we > want to portray our sport as a dangerous, Xtreme sport in order to > make gliding more popular? By your statistics it does seem as though > we do participate in a dangerous sport. (Dare I say Xtreme sport) Is > the public knowing this a good or a bad thing?) > > > > > Here they are, > > > > Based upon ATSB and GFA data provided by the GFA secretariat and > > ATSB courtesy of Dianne Coyne. This data covers the period from 1992 > > to 2002. It doesn't matter how you compared gliding to driving, > > gliding comes off second best. Small changes in gliding fatalities > > have big impacts upon death rates; for example, the number of car > > licence holders is 4,400 greater than the number of flying GFA > > members. So even if there is one gliding death per year, it has a > > big impact on gliding fatality rates, whereas to get an equivalent > > fatality rate change for car drivers, 4,400 more people per year > > would have to die on the roads nationally. > > > > > > Fatality Rate/100,000 flying GFA members per year compared with > > Fatality rate/100,000 car licences per year > > > > Gliding > > Average 29.0 fatalities per 100,000 flying GFA members per year > > (standard deviation 38.35). Median 0.0 fatalities per 100,000 flying > > GFA members per year. > > > > Driving > > Average 15.3 fatalities per 100,000 car licences per year (standard > > deviation 1.98). Median 15.4 fatalities per 100,000 car licences per > > year. > > > > Based on averages, your risk of death per year is 1.9 times greater > > by being a flying member of GFA than by holding a car driver's > > licence. > > > > > > Fatality Rate/100,000 gliding hours flown per year compared with > > Fatality rate/100,000 hours driven per year > > > > Gliding > > Average 1.23 fatalities per 100,000 hours flown per year (standard > > deviation 1.62). Median 0.0 fatalities per 100,000 hours flown per > > year. > > > > Driving > > Average 0.04 fatalities per 100,000 hours driven per year (standard > > deviation <0.01). Median 0.04 fatalities per 100,000 hours driven > > per year. (Driving figures based on an average car speed of 40 km/h) > > > > Based on averages, your risk of death per year is 29.2 times greater > > per hour in a gliding than by driving a car. > > > > Pilots fly an average of 22.4 hours per year, drivers average 371 > > hours per year (you spend 16.5 times longer in your car than your > > glider per year). > > > > Fatality Rate/100 million km travelled per year. > > > > Gliding > > Average 12.7 fatalities per 100 million km flown per year (standard > > deviation 16.6). Median 0.0 fatalities per 100 million km flown per > > year. (Assumption that distance = average flight time * 52.5 knots) > > > > Driving > > Average 1.12 fatalities per 100 million km driven per year (standard > > deviation 0.11). Median 1.17 fatalities per 100 million km driven > > per year. > > > > Based on averages, your risk of death per year is 11.3 times greater > > per km travelled in a glider than by driving a car. > > > > Each glider travels about 6,068 km per year compared with each > > registered vehicle travelling 14,820 km per year (i.e. you car will > > cover more than twice as much distance as your glider per year). > > > > > > Fatality Rate/million trips (launches) per year. > > > > Gliding > > Average 9.2 fatalities per million trips flown per year (standard > > deviation 11.9). Median 0.0 fatalities per million trips flown per > > year. (Assumption that distance = average flight time * 52.5 knots) > > > > Driving > > Average 0.05 fatalities per million trips driven per year (standard > > deviation 0.01). Median 0.06 fatalities per million trips driven per > > year. > > > > Based on averages, your risk of death per year is 170.6 times > > greater per trip in a gliding than per trip in a car. > > > > A car makes on average 3,100 trips per year, a glider on average has > > 89 launches per year (there is great variation in this statistic > > between a club twin trainer that does hundreds of launches and the > > occasional privately owned glider that rarely flies). > > > > > > -- > > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > > with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or > > with "help" in the body of the message for more information. > > > > > > ANDREW WRIGHT > > > -- > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with > "help" in the body of the message for more information. > > > > > -- > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with > "help" in the body of the message for more information. > >
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