One of this magazines missions is to help reduce general aviations accident rates. Ideally, there would be no fatalities. We want to see an end to poverty and war, too, but were not holding our breath on either. In the world of aircraft, a mechanical world, things are still going to break and pilots are going to have to respond quickly, thoughtfully, and appropriately in order to make aircraft accident fatalities go away. Sometimes they may have to augment that skill with luck, too.
How much luck? Think about this scenario: Theres a road in a dense forest with no electric or telephone wires strung across it at the point where a pilot manages to put his small craft down on the pavement. Oh, and there are no cars touring that particular stretch, despite the fact its peak leaf-viewing season. There was knowledge in the way the relatively low-flying pilot responded immediately to the loss of power by reducing his pitch attitude to achieve the airplanes best glide airspeed and avoid an accidental stall/spin.
