General Aviation

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The term ''general aviation'' describes any flight other than a Military or Scheduled Airline flight, ranging from Glider s and Powered Parachute s to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights. As a result, the majority of the world's air traffic falls into this category, and the vast majority of the world's airports serve general aviation exclusively.

EXAMPLES

The following examples provide a partial list of typical general aviation operations:

Flight Training

Gliding

Parachuting

Aerobatics

privately-owned light aircraft flights sometimes from Flying Club s

Air Ambulance

pipeline surveys

Aerial Photography

traffic reporting

Crop Dusting

Bush Flying

Ballooning

Air Charter including air taxi operations

Many Air Cargo Flights

Business Jets

police air patrols

Forest Fire Fighting

logging

resource exploration

REGULATION AND SAFETY

Since it includes both (non-scheduled) commercial operations and private operations, with aircraft of many different types and sizes, it is not possible to make blanket statements about the regulation or safety record of general aviation. At one extreme, in most countries business jets and large cargo jets face most of the same regulations as Scheduled Air Transport and fly mostly to the same airports, so it is not surprising that they have comparable safety records. Commercial Bush Flying operations normally do not operate under as heavy a regulatory burden and often involve riskier operations into small airports or off-airport outside of Radar coverage; as a result, the safety record in that sector can be considerably worse — bush pilots in Alaska , for example, have a one in eight chance of dying on the job. {Link without Title} Most other sectors of general aviation fall between these extremes, depending on the environments in which they operate.

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