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Approachable Excellence

Plane and Pilot

The rich can dream of jets and warbirds. So its been upgraded with a pair of Garmin G5 EFIS displays and a GTN 650 mated to a GTX 345 Mode S transponder. Even though the CFI immediately firewalled the throttle, a wingtip hit the ground and ended the flight. The rest of us fantasize about swinging a Piper Cherokee.

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Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024  

Aerotime

Air taxi operations, executive jets, helicopters, and general aviation activities have been excluded in the interests of concision. Indeed, standing as a significant achievement, 2023 saw no fatal accidents or hull losses for jet aircraft, leading to a record-low fatality risk rate of 0.03 rate per million sectors. No hay heridos.

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