grsthegreat
Super Star Member
LoL.
You guys are funny. I hope you don't own cars.
Naa... never owned a car. I own TRUCKS.....
LoL.
You guys are funny. I hope you don't own cars.
...The accident rate for GA is 7.2 per 100K flight hours...
wrooster said:LoL.
You guys are funny. I hope you don't own cars.
-- Vietnam war KIA/MIA, 1966 to 1972: ~40,000.
-- US highway deaths, every year: ~40,000.
(aside: also note about 3.2 million injuries requiring hospitalization.)
-- General aviation deaths, 2009: 471.
-- Commercial aviation deaths, in 2009: 52.
The accident rate for GA is 7.2 per 100K flight hours, compared with .17 per 100K flight hours with commercial aviation -- hence you are 40 times less likely to be involved in an accident while flying commercial.
20 year historical data...
Deaths per billion passenger-kilometres:
Air: 0.05
Bus: 0.4
Rail: 0.6
Car: 3.1
Bicycle: 44.6
Motorcycle: 108.9
Summary:
Statistically, you are far, far safer while on board a commercial aviation flight than you are actually driving to the airport.
Safety
Wrooster
It's a commonly used abbreviation for "General Aviation" -- meaning small, privately owned aircraft.Why have stats for Georgia and not any other states?
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Been a long time but I thought I would answer the concerns above.I've heard about this and I agree it sounds like a great idea. But I THINK it's only available thru the utility companies that participate in that approach.
I have not heard of it being available from our utility company.
JB
I do the same. Just need to watch the loads.I guess the original poster is long gone, but I’ve been working on backfeeding a week ago so this thread is pertinent. I am using one of those “lockout” brackets that only allows the generator breaker or the main to be on at any one time, not both. I was doing it manually, but decided it was easy to make it legal. Cheap and easy to install - not sure if an electrician was supposed to do it, oh well . Feeding from a 50amp 240v inlet plug on the outside of the house.
Related to the original question, I have both a 120v and a 240v generator. If we just want to run some lights, coffeemaker, etc I rigged up a special jumper cord for my 120v generator that takes the 120v and feeds it to both sides of the 240v inlet plug. That way I can feed any 120v circuit in the house on either leg. My little gen is a Honda eu2200i, so no worry about overloading the neutral. If I need more power, my inlet is wired for 240v for the big generator - so with this setup I have tons of flexibility. I just have the added responsibility of proper load management with this, but I enjoy figuring that stuff out.