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general aviation

[′jen·rəl ‚ā·vē′ā·shən]
(aerospace engineering)
All aviation activity not associated with either certificated air carriers or the military, including business uses, commuter airlines, air taxi operators, various commercial applications, and personal flying.

general aviation

All aviation operations, excluding airlines and military aviation. It includes, but is not limited to, business flying, agricultural aviation, personal flying for pleasure or sports, and flying by flight-training institutions.
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The numbers came from the Nall Report and they used active pilots in personal aviation, excluding the commercial sector of GA.
GA fatality rate
It is said that the most dangerous things in personal aviation are sky above you, runway behind you and fuel in the truck.
The Two-Pilot Problem: Maximizing the utility of two pilots in our cockpits means only one manipulates the controls while the other handles other tasks
When that happens (not if), personal aviation will finally realize its "flying car" promise, but all the fun and sense of accomplishment gained by actually flying an aircraft will be missing, thanks to the automation.
Advancements
Looking for ways to minimize the consequences when something goes wrong pretty much defines risk management in personal aviation. But how we might go about it?
Risk and consequences: Personal aviation's substantial benefits come with potential costs we can't ignore. But we can take steps to eliminate the worst-case scenarios
That part actually hasn't changed much over the years; personal aviation can have drastic consequences.
About those acronyms: if you know a better way to teach and explain critical analysis of the dangers a proposed flight might pose, we're all ears
At first glance, it seems impossible for that part of general aviation we think of as personal aviation to ever come anywhere close to air carrier safety levels, which have been near-perfect every year since 2011.
As safe as the airlines? Can part 91 operations ever be as safe as the scheduled airlines? Yes; by adopting a few of their ideas, we also can get to zero fatal accidents
Airline ops just seem different than personal aviation. The reality is both types of aviation require us to be on our toes, and abort a takeoff--safely--when things aren't right.
Ground handling 101: it doesn't take much to damage an airplane when moving it on the ground with a towbar. Now imagine that airplane is a Boeing 757
Any activity--even staying home watching television--poses risks, and personal aviation is no different.
Five things to get right on your next flight: the accident record tells us a lot about what we can do to prevent adding to it
Over the past several years, the FAA and industry have promoted establishing and adhering to personal minimums as a way to manage the risk inherent in personal aviation. These are viewed as self-imposed limitations based upon personal experience, training and certification, equipment or other factors.
Building margins: just because your planning app says a proposed flight is doable doesn't mean it without risk
It all can and likely will trickle down to personal aviation eventually.
In the cloud
Stupid pilot tricks always get mentioned any time personal aviation safety is discussed.
Is it safe? Flying personal airplanes will always impose some risks, but if we refuse to engage in certain behaviors, we can eliminate many of them
There's no question the industry won't have a bright future if something isn't done to reverse the student-start and-completion trends, nor is there little argument we all need to do better at promoting and preserving personal aviation. At the same time, SAFE'S approach is focused more on the flight-training experience's quality: If we can't properly train people to fly a personal airplane, so the thinking might be summarized, why should anyone want to learn how in the first place?
Quality

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