captjns

No answers really applicable without comment. `Aviation safety, from GA to Commercial, is dynamic in nature. Always researching and implementing tools to enhance safety. Regulations a procedures are written in blood. Accidents appear to be on the increase with the increase in technology with the media. However, people with too much money, lacking skills required to fly complex aircraft, are also part of the problem. Sort of the days of yore, with certain models titled, the Dr. / Lawyer killer.

n8274k

The demographic of the average light aircraft owner/pilot is biased towards folks who have owned their airplanes for many years and have the retirement income to support their hobby in ways younger people can’t or prefer not to. I’m not sure there’s a causation between pilot age and accidents, but they’re about the only ones flying light GA ( outside of the recent surge in flight training) so they are the ones most likely to have accidents, which the evidence supports.