Good folk are continually being killed in small plane crashes; but people keep flying in these death traps, thinking “it’s not gonna be me who dies.”
Errrr... More folks die in their autos in one day than in a plane in a year.
My husband had always wanted to fly so a few years ago he took lessons got his license and was instrument rated. I went up with him one time and said no more. He flew alone for a year or so and then sold his plane and quit, he said it wasn’t any fun if I didn’t take trips with him.
Indeed. At the end of this month Oshkosh will host the annual EAA fly in. The question always is how many pilots and their friends will be killed traveling to or from this air show? But, they keep coming.
My husband always says you should be wary about any hobby that has both the words Experimental and Aircraft in its title. LOL
I am a General Avaition pilot with over 12,000 hours, Multi engine, instrument rated, CFII, Commercial, 1200 hrs turbine time. You are 2200 times more likely to be killed in a car than a small plane. Now there are stupid people that shouldn’t be flying, BUT (as in gun control) It ain’t the instrument that is bad, it is the user.
“but people keep flying in these death traps”
What an ignorant statement.
Private pilots fly many hundreds of thousands of hours in the U.S. every year with very few fatalities.
You are at greater risk in a car.