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It should be noted that 60mph is generous to the car, not to general aviation. A more fair comparison might be to compare mile for mile. A twin is probably pus
by ericpauley 4y ago
It should be noted that 60mph is generous to the car, not to general aviation.
A more fair comparison might be to compare mile for mile. A twin is probably pushing 200mph, leading to 10 fatalities per 100M miles (as dangerous as riding a bicycle, for what little that’s worth). Not great, but you also need to consider that a lot of fatal GA accidents are from private pilots (<2 fatalities per accident on average), not part 135 commercial operators as you’d probably be dealing with.
- LeifCarrotson 4y agoYes, sorry I can't edit anymore to make that clearer. One of the founders of our partner business has a private plane he uses to fly himself and his salespeople/customers/engineers around the midwest, he's a Part 91 private pilot. I've flown with him before and he's a smart, careful guy, but he's a pilot second and machine salesman first, who happens to use his private plane to enhance his B2B network over distances and to small town destinations that are hard to reach with either driving or with commercial aviation. Because it's a comparison for business, working hour-by-hour makes some sense, because it's a decision between a 6-hour drive in the morning, working a long day, and driving home the next morning, or flying there in 2 hours, working, and coming back in the same day. You make different decisions when it's a 1-day or half-day trip, versus the 3-day trip I made last week for 6 hours on site. More and more of that gets pushed to videoconferencing....