"Gordon" wrote in message
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Small GA is less safe than operating a motorcycle, on the road. (US)

Seriously? I've seen a heck of a lot more downed motorcycles than GA a/c.

I believe the small GA pilots association has the accident rate on their
website. Perhaps coinicidentally, the number killed last year was lower in
a trend began with FAA allowing EAA to exercise some exception to the
Aircraft Certification Office, as long as their was some MIDO inspection.

What
you were doing was never the safest thing.

I'm supposed to raise him, not keep him in a bubble. For years he's stood
by
the runway, watching me step out of various aircraft with a giant-sized
s-eating grin on my face, telling him, "Sorry, you aren't tall enough for
this
ride." Under the tutetage of a 7,000-hour TWA Captain in his personal
aircraft, meticulously maintained since he purchased it in 1976, it seemed
a
more responsible than handing him to a leather-clad biker on a Ninja.

From a probability of death occuring the biker was the safer choice.

What would she say if you let
him go as a passenger on a motorcycle?

My son and I have a deal - he never gets on a motorcycle while I am alive,
and
in return, I will never break his legs. The worst moment of my life has
been
telling parents that their son was killed on his bike (hit by dozens of
cars at
the I-5/I-8 interchange). I can't protect him from life, but I couldn't
take
re-living that particular moment from other side of the desk.

I believe the realization that small GA is less safe than people expected is
a contributing factor in the trend down from 3000 deaths per annum to 526
last year. There is also the lawsuit factor, for which small GA tends to
bankrupt manuracturers; mostly based on a spouses' unrealistic expectations.