Always a difficulty, since the obvious answer is not to fly at-all, and then you're far safer.
My personal views on this, for what they're worth are...
- I don't fly except wearing a Nomex or equivalent suit.
- I have reservations about flying aerobatics without a parachute.
- If I'm wearing a parachute, I carry a release knife.
- I don't fly open cockpit without a hard shelled helmet. I wouldn't do aerobatics without a hard shelled helmet unless I was very confident of my handling of the aeroplane.
- I have reservations about night flying in a single without a parachute.
- Who the hell knows what I look like when I'm flying anyway, if I was that worried, I'd take the kit off when I land and leave it in the aeroplane.
G