General Aviation: Hours Flown and Avionics Purchase Decisions.

Abstract

Using data from the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) national sample of general aviation (GA) aircraft owners, this staff study explores separately the factors that influence aircraft owners' hours flown decisions and factors influencing avionics equipage. Five different hours flown measures are utilized. Chapter 2 concentrates on the importance of aircraft owners' income and operating cost in the hours flown decisions of noncompany owners. Chapter 3 broadens the scope of the hours flown analysis by including company and noncompany owners, and discusses the importance of factors other than income and cost. Chapter 4 presents the factors that differentiate avionics equipped from nonequipped aircraft. Based on these factors a 'system' is developed to predict avionics equipage for each of eight different types of avionics. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA084868

Entities

People

  • Stephen G. Vahovich

Organizations

  • Federal Aviation Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Automatic Direction Finders
  • Commerce
  • Databases
  • Direction Finders
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Distance Measuring Equipment
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight Training
  • High Altitude
  • Information Science
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Meteorological Radar
  • Navigation
  • Statistics
  • Surveys

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Naval Engineering and Maritime Security