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streamlines burdensome regulations
on the general aviation industry and
thereby improves safety, decreases
costs and encourages private-sector
innovation. The bill requires the FAA
to implement the Part 23 ARC's recommendations by December 2015.
In addition, since the mid-1990s, the
GA Joint Steering Committee - a government and industry group that uses
the same approach as the Commercial
Aviation Safety Team - has made a
renewed effort to combat general aviation fatal accidents. In fact, the GAJSC
has proposed 26 safety interventions

to address loss of control. As a result,
the FAA recently made it more costeffective for pilots to install angle of
attacks, thus improving aviation safety.
These are just a few examples
that USA Today readers did not learn
while reading Frank's article. The
article's notion that general aviation
is unsafe paints an inaccurate picture.
Aviation is held to higher standards
than any other mode of transportation. While the fatal accident rate
is just over one per 100,000 hours
flown, manufacturers, pilots, trade
organizations, the FAA, the National
Transportation Safety Board and the
entire general aviation industry will
continue to work together to improve

and evolve our safety systems.
According to the Huffington Post's
Jeff Schweitzer, "Flying is relatively
safe because we have made it so by
managing inherent risk and minimizing operational risk; piling on manufacturers with exaggerated claims,
bloated numbers and inaccurate
conclusions does not help us advance
toward a better record of safety. USA
Today made itself part of the problem
rather than contributing to a solution."
While I agree with Schweitzer's
response, let's work together to better
educate and inform those less connected with our industry. There's a
much better story to tell than what was
communicated by USA Today. 

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