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Flying is not simple and for everyone - it is complex, but many things are.. and when mastered it is actually not that hard - so disagree, no wonder here.

• Retric 5y ago
  Flying is easy, flying safely is very difficult. GA inherently allows a great many things that significantly increase risks. Going solo inherently makes you a single point of failure so for example many significant but survivable health issue basically guarantee your death. And that’s just the start. Pilots run out of fuel, fall asleep, they land on the wrong runway/field, and so forth across lots of very small risks that end up killing people. I am not saying GA should be more regulated, it’s just important to understand the trade offs in terms of freedom vs safety.
  • jonathankoren 5y ago
    We can also get away with lower GA regulation because there’s relatively few aircraft. If you scaled 1346x to equal the number of automobiles, we’d probably have even more than 1346x accidents, simply because of a self selected pilot skill bias. We’d have to have more regulation then.
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    • Retric 5y ago
      Even just 1346x as many accidents is ~1/2 million deaths per year which is unlikely to be considered even remotely acceptable.