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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) recommends the FAA establish specific goals and a data-driven approach to enhance general aviation safety.
• To improve safety measurement, the GAO specifically proposes that the FAA mandate the collection of general aviation aircraft flight hours and pilot recurrent training data.
• The article criticizes the GAO's data collection recommendations, arguing the FAA already has adequate data and that mandatory reporting from pilots would be unreliable due to privacy concerns and fear of enforcement.

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