Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Information Regarding Safety Of Private Jets

By Chris Channing

Everyone still seems to be more frightened flying and driving after the September eleventh attacks. Unfortunately, people are still avoiding air travel due to fear. There has always been the same old question regarding the difference between the safety of driving or flying. Continue reading for the facts concerning safety of private jets.

When you compare flying and driving, statistically, flying is your best option. The chances of your being a fatality in an automobile accident are as likely as one in nearly five thousand, and your odds of being a fatality in an airplane accident are as likely as one in nearly eleven million. Those are pretty big odds.

Really, how dangerous is it to fly? Well, the two are based on completely different information. When calculating driving stats, it is based on miles traveled, and your seat in the car. Flying stats are calculated by takeoffs and landings.

There was a study performed with results showing that between the 90s and 2000 that out of over seven thousand worldwide airline fatalities, more than ninety percent happened during takeoff, and climb after takeoff, or during decent and landing. The remaining deaths were from accidents at cruising altitudes. This would tell us that the number of flights strongly influences the safety of the flight, and not the distance of the flight itself.

In comparing general or private aircraft to driving, the fatality rate for aircraft was just under twenty per million hours of flying. The automobile fatality rate is nearly two fatalities per one hundred million miles. Approximately thirteen percent of the auto fatalities were pedestrians and were not driving. Motorcycles have a much higher fatality rate.

When calculating the safety of private planes as compared to commercial airlines, you have to base your facts on pilot flight hours, training, and maintenance on the aircraft. Private planes are regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and must follow the same regulations and guidelines as commercial airlines. Flying in a private jet certainly is more comfortable and convenient.

To gauge risk management, it is much easier in a plane than in a car. You will always have to play defense in your car, due to other drivers. There is really little difference between flying commercial and private if you have a pilot with experience, and a plane with proper maintenance. The suggestion on a commercial plane is to sit near the rear if at all possible, this is supposed to be the safest seating. Now you have been able to discover the truth about safety of private jets

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