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The U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) last month published a report recommending the FAA set specific goals for improving general aviation safety and employ a data-driven approach to minimize risks. Those are the same kinds of things we’ve been advocating pilots do to enhance their own safety for as long as I can remember and is something we certainly support.But how to go about it? Part of the problem, according to the GAO, anyway, is a lack of reliable data on pilot and aircraft activity against which to compare accidents and incidents, and compute their occurrence rate.

Key Takeaways:

• The U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) recommended the FAA set specific goals for general aviation safety, employ a data-driven approach to risk, and collect more detailed data on flight hours and pilot recurrent training.
• While supporting the GAO's call for specific safety goals, the author strongly critiques the recommendation for additional data collection from pilots and aircraft owners.
• The author argues the FAA already has sufficient activity data and that self-reported data would be unreliable due to privacy concerns and pilots' fears of enforcement actions.

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