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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 and adopt a data-driven approach, citing a lack of reliable pilot and aircraft activity data.
• To address this perceived data gap, the GAO specifically proposed requiring the collection of general aviation aircraft flight hours and pilot recurrent training information.
• The article's author disputes the need for new data collection, arguing the FAA already has ample data sources and that mandatory self-reporting from pilots would yield inaccurate data due to privacy concerns and fear of enforcement.

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