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Originally Posted by Air&Road
As I said earlier, if you keep plenty of fuel, don't fly into the clouds and don't do anything stupid, the chance of dying in a small plane is very slim. Things DO happen, however, to the best of planes and best of pilots just as they do in automobiles, motorcycles, etc.
The noise issue has always seemed quite interesting to me. There may be some airports that were built in the midst of a group of houses, but if so, a handful or less. People go and build a house in an airport traffic pattern, an airport that was already there, and THEN complain about the noise. The airport was there first folks.
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Well, I guess we're in the clear then.
I'm regularly amazed at the stubborn clamor for the 'jet packs we were promised.' Yeah, what could go wrong? A bunch of people flying about somewhat at random with a load of explosive fuel strapped to their back.
We'll not be able to rid the world of any and all danger, but the danger of small planes, sometimes with haphazard maintenance histories, falling on people and their homes unexpectedly is one danger that strikes me as one that can be done away with.
Large jetliners can also fall on people and their homes but at least large resources back up engineering and maintenance on such things.
08-16-2013, 01:02 PM
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