How safe is recreational flying?
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CAA Assistant Director Jonathan Nicholson speaks to Tony Rapson and Geoffrey Podger, authors of a new independent safety review commissioned and funded by the Department for Transport. Their review assesses the current level of risk to private pilots, their passengers and third parties of recreational flying in the UK.
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