Hi Everyone,I'm in the process of starting a statistics report, and I would like it to be about aviation.I am wondering if anyone here is able to suggest topics that I could work on for this project. I'd also like to know about some websites that offer free datasets that I could use.Thanks for your time.

I think a, "person miles", look into aviation fatalities would make for some interesting statistics.We pilots always tell people that they're safer in the airplane, than they were while driving to the airport. Is it true ?A jet with 250 people on-board can generate 625,000 person-miles in an afternoon (250pax X 2500nm)... whereas a C172 with two on board would need upwards of 10 years of around the clock flying to generate 625,000 person-miles.

Hi Everyone,I'm in the process of starting a statistics report, and I would like it to be about aviation.I am wondering if anyone here is able to suggest topics that I could work on for this project. I'd also like to know about some websites that offer free datasets that I could use.Thanks for your time.

NTSB and FAA would be good places to start for datasets.DJ

Hi Everyone,I'm in the process of starting a statistics report, and I would like it to be about aviation.I am wondering if anyone here is able to suggest topics that I could work on for this project. I'd also like to know about some websites that offer free datasets that I could use.Thanks for your time.

You could do a report on the perennial "Pilot Shortage"... back it up with statistics showing how the airlines will experience so-and-so many retirements over the next years, etc.I'm sure you could probably get such stats from any of the Flight Training schools, or guys like Kit Darby. They go ga-ga over that kind of thing.

Hi Everyone,I'm in the process of starting a statistics report, and I would like it to be about aviation.I am wondering if anyone here is able to suggest topics that I could work on for this project. I'd also like to know about some websites that offer free datasets that I could use.Thanks for your time.

For UK aviation, including airports, airlines and passenger surveys, there are all the statistics you could ever want and more at http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=80. All free and all downloadable in .csv format for use in the program of your choice (Excel or whatever). In addition to others' ideas, how about investigating the reliability and punctuality of low-cost airlines vs full-service ones? Are we really getting what we pay for or do higher fares just buy you brand reputation and some free food? All you'd need would be the data from a site like the CAA one above plus data on ticket prices, which you could get from the airlines themselves. A few correlations could then give you some interesting findings. For accident data, see http://aviation-safety.net/statistics/ although you can't download these in a useable format: you'd have to copy and paste. Be wary of these anyway: accidents are of course mercifully v rare, meaning these stats aggregate exceptional events and have low population sizes. That can make it hard to draw statistically-valid conclusions: an airline that has had 2 fatal accidents in 20 years isn't necessarily twice as unsafe as one that has had only 1... Accident investigators like the NTSB and AAIB also use stats but only when they need to in a particular investigation, and they tend only to provide you with their analysis rather than the raw data. For instance the NTSB did some interesting work on the safety of glass cockpits in GA aircraft a while back which drew heavily on statistical analysis - but I doubt there'd be much value for you in second-guessing it. Hope this is some use - and good luck.

What about: 'statistically, where is the safest place to sit on an airliner if it crashes?'There are plenty of statistics about crashes and who did and did not survive them (naturally enough, since people tend to like morbid stuff). The data is very often freely available from places such as airdisaster.com and the AAIB and the NTSB reports into accident investigations. Something like that would probably be of interest to anyone who ever gets on a plane, rather than simply appealing to aviation enthusiasts.Of course, it might be a needlessly scary survey, since statistically, flying on a commercial airliner is 157 times safer than being a passenger in a car, based on the fact that in the United States, there are an average of 0.14 fatalities per each million air trips, as opposed to an average of 22 fatalities per million car trips. The odds of you dying in a plane crash flying with an industrialised nation's domestic airline are approximately eight million to one against it, and five million to one against it on an international flight.And here's my favourite airliner crash statistic: in 1998, 20,000 passengers died in car crashes in the US, but there wasn't a single passenger fatality in 1998 on any US-based airliner.Al

goat: Where exactly do you live? If you need datasets you need to find the appropriate government agency... in Canada it's "Statistics Canada" in the US I would start with the census bureau. You should be able to find some statistics about airline employees at the very minimum. Ie age, sex, income, education. You could then compare those statistics to the people that actually make the airliners. Also you could breakup the data regionally, comparing say new york state, to the national averages. The tricky part is finding the industry classifications codes within the datasets.

I'd look at the relationship between increased security vs ticket sales. How much of an impact was 911 in the 10 years following and how much of an impact is TSA making on peoples choices to fly today with new security policies. Or are the trends more related to the economy.

The November issue of Sport Aviation (The EEA magazine from Oshkosh), pages 46-51 gives some of the data in graphic form of which you would probably be interested.Good luck:RTH

Can anyone inform me where might I find pilot statistics?Thanks<div><br></div><div>Edit: Also for those who've replied to my topic, thanks for the help.</div>

Can anyone inform me where might I find pilot statistics?Thanks<div><br></div><div>Edit: Also for those who've replied to my topic, thanks for the help.</div>

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos107.htm