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In addition to the number of aircraft produced affecting those numbers, don't forget that you have to be on an IFR flight plan or have radar following to show up on tracking sites. Are experimentals less likely to participate? I don't know.
My biggest gripe about the statistics is when they use seat-miles as a measurement. I don't like hours either. I would love to see accident rates per cycle - one takeoff and one landing.
-pierre
hunting for the right legacy
On 07/14/2011 01:51 PM, Ron Laughlin wrote:
Hmmm, You might want to check FlightAware's website from time to time
and see how many experimentals are in the system at any given time. I
find only 2 Glassairs and one Lancair at the moment. There are a bunch
of certifieds (62 Cirrus's and 51 SkyHawks, etc.).
<http://flightaware.com/live/aircrafttype/>
Ron
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Ted Noel<tednoel@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
Interesting observation, but not adjusted for age. Experimentals are
generally newer than production A/C, and those thousands of hours represent
how many last year???? It's possible for both observations to be true.
Ted Noel
N540TF
On 7/13/2011 8:19 AM, rwolf99@aol.com wrote:
Randy writes:
<<I believe there are more flight hours per plane for experimentals that
certifieds...>>
I don't see how that could be. One year at Oshkosh there was a special
display area for homebuilts with over 1000 hours. There were just a
handful. Bill Hannahan's Lancair was one of them. On the other side of the
runway were thousands of spam-cans, all certified. I'll bet that none had
less than 1000 hours, and most had more than 2000 hours.
Further, every experimental for sale in Trade-a-Plane or ASO.com seems to
have between 100 and maybe 500 hours. Virtually all spam cans have
thousands.
As to the real question -- do homebuilt owners fly their airplanes more
hours per year than spam can owners -- I have no idea.
- Rob Wolf
p.s. I do not use the term "spam can" as pejorative. I used to own one and
had a lot of fun with it.
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