On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:36:50 GMT, "private"
wrote:

To ignore the money issue is to ignore the elephant in the room.

There's another elephant. The instructor explains that flying is all
about risk management, and the student thinks, "Well, ****. Probably
90% of the people who died in airplanes thought they were managing
their risks to the extent that they didn't expect to die that day.
The instructor as much as said right now that only way I can
*completely* manage the risk of dying in an airplane is by staying out
of them. There's lots of risky things in life I can't avoid, but
flying is a lifestyle choice."

Don (Flying with that elephant since 1968. "So far, so good.")