RE: twin vs. single

[Ken Lawson-Williams <Macgyver@FlightMedicMail.com>]

Makes sense empirically - twins have higher pilot workload and are often flown in circumstances that singles are not. 

Fly Safe. 
Ken L-W CCEMT-P/WMT

Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

>Fleet wide however
>over many periods the single is shown to have less fatal accidents per
>100,000 hrs than the twin. For example the period of 1996 thru 2000
>single turbine helicopter was .69 and twin was .79. Interestingly In
>both single and twins the pilot/crew account for more than %50 of the
>probable cause of accidents.
>Also In Twin engine turbine Airplanes a second pilot lowered the
>accident rate by almost %50

>Perhaps when we
>get that larger more cabable aircraft we could consider adding a second
>pilot for safety as being more important than the second engine?

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