there is obviously a great difference between the previous posters and their flying experience and me and mine.
all the prior posters seem to live in constant fear of a catastrophe. you guys must get a real downer going after a flight when you realise that nothing happened. you never had a moment where the crash axe got raised in anger.
what a letdown flying must be for you all.
I knew pilots like you once. they could last 3 hours in the air and the nervous tension did them in to the point where they could only fly every second day.
they dumped me as a friend when I told them that I could fly every day and for nearly 3 times as long each day.
boy scout safety is all nonsense methinks.
I had some advice once that seemed to be on the money.
"wear the clothes you want to walk home in."
if your aeroplane stuffs up and you have to leave it in a field well...
I also carry a swiss army tinker knife. it is used for peeling oranges.
whatever shoes I have on and often that means I fly in steel cap work boots.
jeans and comfortable flannelette shirts.
crash risk? good grief.
the odds are that my sons will inherit my aircraft and they will be classed as vintage aircraft by then.
ymmv.