Although builders of amateur-built aircraft often work with limited resources, they can still apply the methodical strategies of data-driven risk mitigation, according to Paul Dye, editor of KITPLANES magazine and a former senior flight director at NASA. In a keynote talk at the opening day of the Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida, Dye said that builders–and even pilots doing their own repairs and maintenance work–can and should adopt risk models built on actual data, not hangar tales and rumor.
Source: avwebRoad To Lower Accident Rates: Understand The Data