C J Campbell wrote:
While it is true that statistics overall say that flying an airplane is
about as hazardous as riding a motorcycle, the vast majority of flying
accidents are due to pilot error. In other words, the pilot made poor
choices about when to fly, what to fly, or where. Flying IFR at night in
areas of forecast icing over mountains in a light single engine airplane is
probably a poor choice.

Exactly. Take a 182, fly day VFR only, don't buzz anybody and your
chance of dying is the same as driving. You self limit when you can fly
but that's just another term for risk management.