Originally Posted by
ShropshirePilot
I'm not suggesting that we adopt the same approach to aviation as to road safety - quite the opposite in fact - but the fact that globally every single GA crash is deemed newsworthy suggests to me that this activity, when carried out sensibly, is actually very safe indeed but that the general public (and my brother in law especially!!) think that he takes his life in his hands when flying GA. We are still all more likely to cop it on the way to the airfield!
That is because we are held to a higher standard than anything else.
And when it's gross pilot error, we are villains.
When we go down fighting, we are heroic.
Aviation is still something that defies belief in a lot of people.
I know I still "how the f*** does that thing fly?!" when I see an A380 in the skies.