I was never comparing statistics for comparison's sake,
Helicopters especially, and General Aviation has an undeserved
reputation of being unsafe, which is false,
so I was trying to explain that it is indeed safe.

On Jan 15, 2:42 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2:27 pm, Lenny P <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You can certainly eliminate certain pilot errors from statistics
> > depending
> > on your mission.
>
> Indeed.  I was merely pointing out that in your mission to demonstrate
> that helicopters were safer than cars, you were comparing helicopter
> accidents that excluded pilot error with motor accidents that included
> driver error.  It is that comparison that was meaningless, not the
> fact that helicopter may or may not be safe.
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