According to the DOT, the motorcycle accident fatality rate for 2002 was
34.0 fatalities per 100 million miles traveled. That's over 20 times
the rate for automobiles (1.47 fatalities per 100 million miles)!
(see http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd...FatsUpdate.pdf)

If we compare it with the aviation accident rate of 1.2 fatalities per
100,000 hours flown, and assume an average GA velocity of 150 mph, this
comes to a fatality rate for GA of about 8 fatalities per 100 million miles
flown.

Thus, motorcycle riding is roughly 4 times more dangerous than flying GA.

I feel better now.

-- Dane

In article .com,
wrote:
A light plane is somewhere in the neighborhood of motorcycle riding, as
far as danger goes. You can double your odds of survival if you avoid
VFR into IMC and low-altitude maneuvering.

Dane Spearing wrote:
I've had many non-pilot friends and co-workers ask, "Is flying a small plane
more or less dangerous than driving a car?"