Private Pilot Flight Training and Instruction

Non-IFR Pilot

• 1 accident in 12,186 hours in IFR conditions
  
• 1 accident in 94,819 hours in VFR conditions.
  
• An instrument pilot is most vulnerable with less than 100 hours instrument time.
  
• In 28% of fatal accidents the pilots had instrument ratings.

Written by Gene Whitt