4 ms·
While that sounds like great advice to trot out every time a small craft crashes, in the absence of data it is functionally worthless.
by dschobel 17y ago
While that sounds like great advice to trot out every time a small craft crashes, in the absence of data it is functionally worthless.
- jrockway 17y agoExactly. "Don't get a driver's license" or "don't go outside" are just as valid. My thought is, if I die or become horribly brain-damaged, I won't really care, because the capacity to care is gone. Existence only goes as far as you can interpret it.
- gridspy 17y agoIsn't there someone else in your life who would care?
- pavel_lishin 17y agoSo your point is that avoiding danger is pointless, because once danger kills you, you don't care? Race you across the interstate! Go!
- mrkurt 17y agoIt's true. General aviation is reasonably dangerous, approaching motorcycle levels. A link mentioned earlier in this discussion cites some statistics: > If the average speed of car travel is 50 miles per hour, those 1.7 deaths occur in 2 million hours of driving. This makes general aviation, with 16 deaths per 1 million hours, roughly 20 times as dangerous per hour than driving. http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/safety http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/safety If you look at "danger per mile", GA is only ~10x as dangerous as driving. I prefer the "per hour" statistic, though, but not for any good reason. Of note: every insurance company I've ever dealt with for life and property insurance has asked if I'm a private pilot. My last renter's insurance policy had a rider exempting me from coverage when flying. Insurance companies are historically pretty good at assessing risk. Profitable ones, anyway.