EAA comments on NTSB report on homebuilts

[Guest ozzie]

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[fly_tornado]

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[Yenn]

A sad but no doubt true fact. I din't know how we are going in Australia, where we have at least 2 different home built types of aeroplane. SAAA seems to be puishing the safe flying barrow pretty well, and I don't think RAAus built planes are having a greater proportion of accidents.

 

From memory locally we have had a few forced landings and accidentsand they are evenly poised between home built and factory built. I person crashed his owner built and then went on to crash a factory built. 1 owner built which crashed happened after more than 10 years of safe flying.

 

I believe it is more to do with the pilot than the builder.

 

 

[Sloper]

l have a different background and thoughts on building a aircraft and have noticed a few things.

 

Builder flyers are older.

 

Some of the standards in aviation are hard to get your head around.

 

A example was acceptable fuel leaks, the planet l live on would not allow a hazard like this.

 

In general a homebuilder will take more care, but not understand what they need to acheive.

 

( Building all parts with risk managment in mind)

 

regards Bruce

 

 

[fly_tornado]

from looking @ my Tornados. Maintenance is the key to safety. Good maintenance should also pickup any build faults.

 

 

[Sloper]

Good maintenence is part of it, but understanding why it is important also.

 

l will be doing the maintenence course so l can maintain my aircraft, but backing me up is a couple of bits of paper on the wall.

 

l wonder how many people do the course but not update ther skills regulary?

 

regards Bruce

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

The big drawcard for the NTSB is the extremely high number of first flight accidents and then into the next ten hours or so mostly involving high performance homebuilts.

 

Now why can't we be more proactive like the EAA? When the FAA and NTSB ask, the EAA reply with 'doing it already.'

 

 

[Gnarly Gnu]

The big drawcard for the NTSB is the extremely high number of first flight accidents and then into the next ten hours or so mostly involving high performance homebuilts.Now why can't we be more proactive like the EAA? When the FAA and NTSB ask, the EAA reply with 'doing it already.'

Well I think the SAAA are. It's a tiny organisation on a shoestring budget compared to the EAA of course but they have a similar system in place.

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

Agreed with the SAAA. But what about the RAAus?

 

 

[facthunter]

The issue seems to be more with the high performance stuff. and things like lancairs etc that are safe if flown well, but putting those planes down off field is something else again.

 

Early hours for "aircraft" incidents could also relate to builders building and not flying much. There was/has been talk at times of not having the builder fly his/her test flight. I don't go for that, because it's a one case fits all, but I might buy a recency or a general flight test requirement, prior to.

 

Test flying is something different from normal inso much as a lot might happen that you would not expect to happen in normal operations. IF you are simultaneously testing a new concept plane and an original automobile conversion at the same time this is considered something pretty extreme and caution is advised there.

 

I don't think that the statistics for the RAAus at the moment are bad are they? Historically they have been much worse in the past. We should always strive for zero acccidents but we all know that that outcome is impossible in reality because of the nature of what we do. Nev

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

The hombuilding trend in the US has been swinging toward the more high performance types for some time. Lancair has been one such example. Most of the kit suppliers have been offering pilot training for some time. These aircraft bite even in the hands of current and experienced pilots