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Old 21st Dec 2013, 12:16
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CaptainChairborne
 
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Hi Andre

It's difficult to know what to make of your original post. It reads as though you are obsessed with the dangers of flying and are trying to use statistics to rationalise a way to continue flying. Clearly this is not the case because you already have a good few hours in the air, it's a side-effect of the way these forums work.

I would say, however, that if you haven't been bitten by the flying bug by now, and safety is going to be a big concern, then you probably shouldn't carry on. Flying is an expensive and time consuming obsession and if you aren't getting a big buzz out of it, you will make your family and yourself much happier by staying on the ground

I do think your approach to the stats is hugely flawed. You are isolating one factor, aircraft type, when each accident was the result of a number of contributing features. The sample size for filtering by type is just too small to do this for many types of aircraft, you may just as well have a sex change because very few women pilots have fatal accidents
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