It's true. General aviation is reasonably dangerous, approaching motorcycle levels. A link mentioned earlier in this discussion cites some statistics: > If t

It'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.