"Newps" wrote in message
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If you look at the accident stats of a 182 and subtract out night
flying, flying into bad weather while VFR and all IMC flight on an IFR
flight plan the safety record is virtually the same as driving. So day
VFR flight is about as safe as it gets.

My recall is that light plane VFR was the overwhelming source for crashes
(and all the boneheaded moves) -- that the accident rate under IFR dropped
by several orders of magnitude.