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No. But: Test-flying unconventional prototype / experimental airplanes, or flying commercially available ultralights? With or without training? And wingsuits
by nikitaga 6y ago
No. But:
Test-flying unconventional prototype / experimental airplanes, or flying commercially available ultralights? With or without training?
And wingsuits – proximity flying? base jumping? Or just jumping out of a plane?
The risks of those scenarios are magnitudes apart.
Personal aircraft are about as dangerous as motorbikes. Base jumping on the other hand, whether with a wingsuit or not, is one of the most dangerous recreational activities you can do, with a fatality rate of something like 1% per participant per year.
- germinalphrase 6y agoI wonder how much the hat BASE/wing suit stat is exaggerated by the “extreme” culture associated with it. I can’t imagine hobbies airplane builders are immediately doing aerobatics at the first chance they can. Wing suit flyers are famously risk maximizing.