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General aviation (GA) encompasses all aviation other than scheduled airline flights and military aviation. It includes everything from a privately-owned light single-engine aircraft to business jets, news gathering, police, pipeline patrol, emergency medical flights, crop-dusting, rotocraft, sport ballooning and many other aerial activities. [[image:genav.vansrv4.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A general aviation scene at Kemble airfield, England. The aircraft in the foreground is a homebuilt aircraft Vans RV-4]] Much of the traffic in general aviation is flown under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) in contrast to airline traffic which is nearly always flown by reference to IFR (IFR) wherever ground facilities adequately support that type of navigation. The ground facilities needed for most general aviation flights are generally less sophisticated than those required by the armed forces or airlines operating scheduled flights, but there are many differences between the smaller grass aerodromes and those capable of accepting the larger corporate aircraft on international flights. Some of these differences simply reflect the different speeds and capabilities of aircraft types in common use, whilst others reflect regulations imposed to safeguard the safety of pilots, passengers and nearby communities. All public-use airports, including airports which are served by commercial carriers, have some general aviation traffic, although GA users in the United States are sometimes subject to user fees at the larger airports. The following statistics are from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Factbook of 2001: {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 0 1em 1em; " | colspan="2" | Numbers of aircraft by type |- | piston engine || align="right" | 170,500 |- | Turboprop || align="right" | 5,800 |- | Jet engine || align="right" | 7,000 |- | Total || align="right" | 183,300 |} {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 0 1em 1em; " | colspan="2" | Numbers of aircraft by type of flying |- | Corporate || align="right" | 11,000 |- | Business || align="right" | 25,200 |- | Personal || align="right" | 148,200 |- | Instructional || align="right" | 14,900 |- | Flight || align="right" | 4,300 |- | Aerial observation|| align="right" | 5,100 |- | External load || align="right" | 200 |- | Other work || align="right" | 1,800 |- | Siteseeing || align="right" | 900 |- | Air tour || align="right" | 300 |- | Air taxi || align="right" | 3,700 |- | Air medical || align="right" | 900 |- | Other || align="right" | 1,000 |- | Total || align="right" | 217,500 |} {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 0 1em 1em; " | colspan="2" | Numbers of pilots by certificate type |- | Private || align="right" | 243,823 |- | Commercial || align="right" | 12,502 |- | ATP || align="right" | 144,702 |- | Total || align="right" | 401,027 |} Estimated total hours flown under General Aviation rules CFR.91: 29,000,000 {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 0 1em 1em; " | colspan="2" | Numbers of accidents in 2001 by type of operation |- | Air Taxi || align="right" | 72 |- | Other General Aviation|| align="right" | 1721 |- | Total || align="right" | 1793 |} Further information can be found in the "Aviation Safety Foundation Nall Report" which is released each year by the Aviation Safety Foundation (ASF) based on data from National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports. ===See also=== * List of aviation topics * List of UK Airfields Aviation
"General aviation (GA) encompasses all civil aviation other than scheduled airline flights and government aviation." -- I'm going from memory here, but isn't all government non-military aviation also GA? For example, police, fire fighting, search and resuce, and so on. I think the word "government" should be changed to "military". (No objections noted, change made.) -------- I've got a few issues here. 1)I work for a charter airline, which makes us comercial aviation, but my company has a MEDEVAC contract ans so we operate medical flights and the pilots must hold a commercial licence because they are being paid. i would therefore classify med flights as commercial aviation. I thinks that if the pilots are being paid for their services it makes it commercial aviation and many of the examples of GA in this article should not be here. 2) Except for the few aircraft we have that operate at high altitude, very few of our flights operate IFR. User:Trevor macinnis 00:29, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC) OK, I see that my above comments are adressed in the GA section of Aviation, I guess its just this page that has to be reworked to reflect that info.User:Trevor macinnis 00:34, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC) - I think you have it wrong. Whether something is GA or commercial aviation has nothing to do with whether the pilots are paid or not. Flight instructors are paid, and that's definitely GA. Basically, GA is part 91. Yes, I just checked. The FAA defines GA as 14CFR91.
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General aviation (GA) encompasses all aviation other than scheduled airline flights and military aviation. It includes everything from a privately-owned light single-engine aircraft to business jets, news gathering, police, pipeline patrol, emergency medical flights, crop-dusting, rotocraft, sport ballooning and many other aerial activities. [[image:genav.vansrv4.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A general aviation scene at Kemble airfield, England. The aircraft in the foreground is a homebuilt aircraft Vans RV-4]] Much of the traffic in general aviation is flown under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) in contrast to airline traffic which is nearly always flown by reference to IFR (IFR) wherever ground facilities adequately support that type of navigation. The ground facilities needed for most general aviation flights are generally less sophisticated than those required by the armed forces or airlines operating scheduled flights, but there are many differences between the smaller grass aerodromes and those capable of accepting the larger corporate aircraft on international flights. Some of these differences simply reflect the different speeds and capabilities of aircraft types in common use, whilst others reflect regulations imposed to safeguard the safety of pilots, passengers and nearby communities. All public-use airports, including airports which are served by commercial carriers, have some general aviation traffic, although GA users in the United States are sometimes subject to user fees at the larger airports. The following statistics are from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Factbook of 2001: {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 0 1em 1em; " | colspan="2" | Numbers of aircraft by type |- | piston engine || align="right" | 170,500 |- | Turboprop || align="right" | 5,800 |- | Jet engine || align="right" | 7,000 |- | Total || align="right" | 183,300 |} {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 0 1em 1em; " | colspan="2" | Numbers of aircraft by type of flying |- | Corporate || align="right" | 11,000 |- | Business || align="right" | 25,200 |- | Personal || align="right" | 148,200 |- | Instructional || align="right" | 14,900 |- | Flight || align="right" | 4,300 |- | Aerial observation|| align="right" | 5,100 |- | External load || align="right" | 200 |- | Other work || align="right" | 1,800 |- | Siteseeing || align="right" | 900 |- | Air tour || align="right" | 300 |- | Air taxi || align="right" | 3,700 |- | Air medical || align="right" | 900 |- | Other || align="right" | 1,000 |- | Total || align="right" | 217,500 |} {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 0 1em 1em; " | colspan="2" | Numbers of pilots by certificate type |- | Private || align="right" | 243,823 |- | Commercial || align="right" | 12,502 |- | ATP || align="right" | 144,702 |- | Total || align="right" | 401,027 |} Estimated total hours flown under General Aviation rules CFR.91: 29,000,000 {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 0 1em 1em; " | colspan="2" | Numbers of accidents in 2001 by type of operation |- | Air Taxi || align="right" | 72 |- | Other General Aviation|| align="right" | 1721 |- | Total || align="right" | 1793 |} Further information can be found in the "Aviation Safety Foundation Nall Report" which is released each year by the Aviation Safety Foundation (ASF) based on data from National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports. ===See also=== * List of aviation topics * List of UK Airfields Aviation
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"General aviation (GA) encompasses all civil aviation other than scheduled airline flights and government aviation." -- I'm going from memory here, but isn't all government non-military aviation also GA? For example, police, fire fighting, search and resuce, and so on. I think the word "government" should be changed to "military". (No objections noted, change made.) -------- I've got a few issues here. 1)I work for a charter airline, which makes us comercial aviation, but my company has a MEDEVAC contract ans so we operate medical flights and the pilots must hold a commercial licence because they are being paid. i would therefore classify med flights as commercial aviation. I thinks that if the pilots are being paid for their services it makes it commercial aviation and many of the examples of GA in this article should not be here. 2) Except for the few aircraft we have that operate at high altitude, very few of our flights operate IFR. User:Trevor macinnis 00:29, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC) OK, I see that my above comments are adressed in the GA section of Aviation, I guess its just this page that has to be reworked to reflect that info.User:Trevor macinnis 00:34, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC) - I think you have it wrong. Whether something is GA or commercial aviation has nothing to do with whether the pilots are paid or not. Flight instructors are paid, and that's definitely GA. Basically, GA is part 91. Yes, I just checked. The FAA defines GA as 14CFR91.
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