planes vs cycles

General Aviation 0.036 / million passenger-miles
Motorcycles 0.309 / million passenger-miles

Making GA about 9 times safer than motorcycles to get from one place to
another.

Another shibboleth ruined!

What do the same statistics say about GA and automobiles?

Of course, as posted earlier, it really should be *driver*-miles, not
passenger-miles, since automobiles likely carry more people on average
than GA aircraft.

And where does GA stop? Does it include biz jets? I think what most of
us would like to know is the hazard of *lightplanes" perhaps defined
as single-engine recips. I don't suppose there are enough P-51s around
to skew the numbers.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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