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Other than looking at the fleet and saying x% of aircraft can be flown under the S.P. rules and they make up y% of all accidents, you can't. But that doesn't account for VFR vs IFR, Sunday putzers vs. hard core transportation, light wing loading vs heavy, etc. etc. etc.

Those would be the pilots flying under the Sport Pilot rules. The FAA (or anyone else) does not know how many of those there are, but I know for a fact that there are more than one.

Look at the geezers operating under Sport Pilot rules... Doesn't seem to have resulted in flaming death raining from the sky.

One day it will click. Then you will get away from aviation for 30 years and then go back to struggling. :-) The mass of the airplane is going down, when the main's touch it wants to continue down, which brings the tail down which increases the angle of attack of the wings, which picks you...

The Airbus identifies as a Boeing.

You're not the only one... From an email from the university where I used to work: "Last week, we sent an email to 750 xxx faculty & staff to gauge the effectiveness of our training. The subject was 'Annual Password Security Update'. Yes, this was an internal test and we designed it to be...

They invented the LSA.

Part 103 E-LSA generally has to be a copy of an S-LSA built to the "consensus" standards.

Yup. Just lean with the non-existent red knob. OTOH. If the carb is one of the rare ones with the actual hardware on the carb, you can hop out, cut the safety wire, lean, taxi, hop out again, re-safety, and be on your way. Not that the mixture control on the Stromberg will work at idle, but...

The T-18 was designed as an open cockpit, O-290 powered, VFR aircraft. No problem finding one with full IFR panels, O-360 constant speed prop, gallons of bondo to hide all the rivets, leather covered everything, blah, blah, blah and an empty weight that exceeds John Thorp's intended gross weight.

"OK, since you got me started. A few more reasons why these AKA acft. are not real airplanes." What's an AKA acft? "In most you are flying with the engines in your lap." I would be hard pressed to think of an example of that. "Someone mentioned 2000 to 5800 RPM, actually is more like...

Well, I recall one of my college students saying "here comes the Swiss Army" as I reached into my pocket. Pretty typical for a lot of them to have something handy.

"In this dramatization of transcripts from a legal deposition, a lawyer becomes embroiled in an absurd argument about the definition of a photocopier."

Still connected to the mount? Mount bolts to a flat firewall? Bolt it down to a big chunk of plywood or a pallet, or...