Ra-Aus Name change in regards to accidents...

[winsor68]

I have noticed that when accidents have been reported on recently they are referring to the aircraft as "light" rather than as "ultralight" more regularly...I recall when the name change to Ra-Aus was being talked about one of the reasons given was that there was bad press when "ultralight" accidents were reported...I guess this has worked.

 

It is a shame that there seems to be so many "light" aircraft accidents of late though...

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

This is good, it has taken the heat off us real 'ultralight' flyers.

 

 

[Thx1137]

Yeah. I noticed that too. Being relatively new to flying I was wondering if it has always been like this. I got a surprise when I went to the ATSB site and checked out the weekly incident summary. They seem to average around 12 pages worth for just one week!

 

Mostly bird strikes and CTA incursions from the couple of weeks I went through.

 

 

[bushpilot]

My theory is that it's because many 'ultralights' are looking more like 'light aircraft', especially to those that dont know the difference... So the witnesses and reporters just lump em all together..