There aren’t any magic bullets for eliminating general aviation accidents—but I’ve just run across a dedicated, reasonably priced simulator training program that has a lot of potential for reducing the most common type of GA accident, runway loss of control (RLOC).
For some reason, pilots and owners are not very good at responding appropriately when given hard data on risks. Case in point: RLOC. The crash data for the last two years of Used Aircraft Guides in this magazine shows that 23.6 percent of the wrecks for nosewheel airplanes and 53.2 percent for tailwheel airplanes were RLOC events. The numbers are probably higher because many RLOC prangs don’t meet the damage or injury threshold (which is pretty high) to be a reportable.