Laugh Test

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 set specific general aviation safety goals, employ a data-driven approach, and collect data on pilot recurrent training and aircraft flight hours.
• The article supports the idea of setting safety goals but strongly criticizes the GAO's specific recommendation for new mandated data collection from pilots and aircraft owners.
• The author argues that the FAA already has various sources for activity data and that directly collecting this information from pilots would likely yield inaccurate results due to privacy concerns and fear of enforcement.

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