Very common and well documented
concept. At least well known in the medical trauma community.
Trauma (injuries of all kinds; burns, crashes, falls, etc.) are
not equally distributed among the population. There is a
continuum of personal risk tolerance from very adverse to "watch
this." If you are risk adverse, you will do certain things that
demonstrate this adversity in much of what you do.
A good example comes from the auto industry from a decade or two
ago when seat belts were introduced into cars but not worn
universally. Several studies designed to prove the value of seat
belts in a crash easily proved that they were effective. The
un-looked-for result of the analysis of the data was that if you
chose to buckle your seat belt you were less than half as likely
to have a crash at all compared to those who chose not to buckle
up. If you are familiar with auto crash data you would know that
most, though not all, crashes involve someone taking a significant
risk in driving technique (passing unsafely, driving drunk,
driving fast on snow covered roads, etc.). Buckling up and not
taking driving risks are linked through our own risk taking
behaviors.
I contend that choosing to fly in general aviation and flying a
Lancair already puts you in a less risk adverse category. When a
portion of the "at risk" population participates in risk
mitigation activities, that probably sub-selects a group that is
slightly more risk adverse and therefore less likely to be
involved in an incident. Risk mitigation in the Lancair crowd
includes a lot of things; training, recurrent training, practice,
wearing your seat belt, maintaining your aircraft in perfect
working order, participating in learning devices (like LML), etc.
LOBO provides a number of these risk mitigating activities in a
pretty attractive and fun "package."
The above is not a secret. The insurance companies know all about
it. That's why they ask you if you participate in any risk taking
activities (skiing, scuba, piloting, etc.) when you apply for life
insurance. Personal health choices also reflect on your risk
taking behavior.
Having said all that, I'm not sure why I survived into adulthood.
Barry Knotts
On 1/30/2013 8:27 AM,
marv@lancair.net wrote:
Posted for Scott E Keighan
<scottekeighan@sympatico.ca>:
So let me get this right. If I pay you $40 to join the LOBO I
will be a
better pilot then a non-LOBO
member, cool.
How exactly does that work?
Other then someone getting $40 richer, I don't see it. Is this
like a pyramid
scam?
Don't insult non members and get a life. As a matter of fact. If
the LOBO is
so great, why are you even on the LML?
I think the LOBO members
should go to their own blog. I am sure they have
one.
Scott keighan
905 262 5997
[Whoa... lighten up. Since the LML had been
operating successfully for a number of years prior to the
founding of LOBO and the LML would likely already be in touch
with most folks who would be
interested in joining and participating in LOBO, an agreement
was forged which allowed LOBO to use the LML as its
communications arm. It was a
logical decision which would benefit both entities. Both
organizations exist for the benefit of the Lancair community,
especially where safety
is involved. As for cost... if $40/year is too much to pay to
an organization dedicated to your safety and actively working to
help getting
the Lancair fleet insured at better rates then don't join.
Also, don't participate in their discussions or learn anything
from their shared
knowledge... at least that way you'll get what you paid for. But
don't throw stones at folks who are trying to help... that
doesn't get us anywhere.
<marv> ]
From:
colyncase@earthlink.net
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:31:05 -0500
To:
lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Accident rate for LOBO members
vs non-members
Dico,
That's a good point. That's one reason we would like to
get as many Lancair
pilots on the LML and
into LOBO as possible. It's largely a word of mouth
process to get let people know about these two
resources. Getting the word
out to everyone is one of the "things we can do as a
community" to improve the
situation.
LOBO membership is $40 at
www.lancairowners.com.
(Marv would love contributions to keep the LML site going
too!)
Colyn
On Jan 29,
2013, at 9:41 PM, Dico Reijers wrote:If the accident rate
for
Lancairs is 500x that of commercial aviation... do we have a
break down of
what
the rate is of LOBO members vs. Non-members. I would hope
that by just
being a LOBO member and reading/learning from this group
that
the accident
rate for us is more in line with the 300x experimental or
even better than
that.
Have we gone through the Lancair
accidents to see if the PIC was a LOBO
member. It would be interesting.
-DIco
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