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Colyn,

Over 250 Eclipse 500 aircraft flying for the last four plus years.... Zero fatal accidents... Many owner flown... Type specific training required by regulation....Recurrent training required by insurance companies. Hmmm....yes I would say training is a large reason.

Jeff

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On Jan 18, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Colyn Case <colyncase@earthlink.net> wrote:

Is the bulk of the safety difference explained by better training? e.g. sim training?

On Jan 18, 2012, at 6:27 AM, vtailjeff@aol.com wrote:

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-----Original Message-----
From: William Miller <cwfmd@yahoo.com>
To: lml <lml@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 10:57 am
Subject: [LML] aopa turbine numbers: $ vs safety

Catching up on some reading, I noticed the survey of turbine aircraft in the AOPA Pilot June, 2011. I certainly is a lot of fun to compare my fuel flow, cost per hour, maintenance, range, fixed costs, and payload to their numbers. Some manufacturers don't even publish their fuel flow with the cruise data. I wonder what that could mean?

Now, if we can just organize ourselves to match their safety record.... my airplane is missing a few of the certified(or USNmilspec) requirements, including egress and escape redundancy, fire detection/suppression/prevention, and "more successful" complete engine failure procedures.(multi-,BRS,eject, bail)

I know of one installation of the BRS chute in an ES. Has anyone else installed one?

Bill Miller

IV-P's 450 +45