In article , Trent Moorehead wrote:
It's interesting to me how easily people dismiss the danger of simply
driving, but see flying as a much more dangerous activity.

Flying is more dangerous; the fatal accident rate for GA is about
equivalent to riding a motorcycle on the roads (although the total
accident rate is a bit lower).

Even if it wasn't, to many people flying simply isn't natural because
you aren't attached to the ground. The lizard part of the human brain
evolved firmly on the ground, and not in the air, so only those of us
who somehow lack a basic instinctive fear of flying actually enjoy it.
The vast majority of people are afraid of flying because billions of
years of natural selection have hard wired them to feel that being off
the ground = imminent danger of hitting it very hard.

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Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
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"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"