Have you ever flown at 100 knots under a network of power lines? Or flown for countless hours every day with you wheels just inches from vegetation that can and will pull you to the ground in a nano-second? Or have you made countless recoveries at the end of each row sprayed just to get back on to the next row?
But then we must still be talking apples and oranges here.
And yes, I did serve in actual combat, (See several previous posts on this thread.)