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Do motorcycles need to get annuals to be considered road worthy? Do you need to pass a medical exam to get a motorcycle license? Do you need a different license to ride your motorcycle when it’s foggy or rainy?
If not, I disagree with your statement.
Not sure how anything you asked is relevant? At the end of the day, general aviation is not super safe to the standard that people expect from commercial / corporate flights.
https://pilotinstitute.com/is-flying-safer-than-driving/#personal-flights
Motorcycle:
Personal flights:
I'm really surprised at that.
Thinking about it though most bikers I know are young, have good reflexes and are mostly using a motorbike for commuting or travelling which is probably lower risk than the cliche teenage fool on a superbike my mind jumped to.
By contrast, the vast majority of light aircraft pilots I know are 60+, many 70+ with extensive health issues, heart problems and likely comparatively poor reflexes.
General aviation overall:
Totally. I have my student license and everyone at the field is much older than I am. There's a reason that some plane models are called things like "doctor killers".
Also there's a lot of random pilots up in places like Alaska or crop dusting in middle America that just don't give a fuck about anything. That tends to skew the stats a bit more I think.
You need a pilots license to fly an airplane at all. To fly in less than optimal conditions (ie fog) you need an IFR endorsement. You can get other endorsements like sea place, multi engine, high powered, etc.
To fly for payment at all you need a commercial pilots license. To fly a consumer airline, you need an ATP endorsement.
Depending on what type of license you have (private, commercial, ATP), you need pass a certain class of medical exam. Your license also dictates how often your medical needs to be renewed.
To achieve a PPL ( in the US) you need to pass a checkride and a written exam. You also need to pass a check ride for your instrument endorsement. I have no idea if you need to pass a written exam for a CPL, but you definitely need a check ride for that. And your ATP.
You also need to pass an annual mechanical inspection for your personal plane. For commercial it’s ever X hours ( I think it’s 1000?). No idea for ATP
Beyond that, you can lose the ability to fly your plane if the FAA or manufacturer identifies a defect in your plane and you have yet to get it fixed by the required procedure.
Did I mention it’s 40 hours flight hours minimum for a PPL and 1500 for ATP?
Oh and there are preflight checklists to verify that your plane is in working order BEFORE flight.
Thats all to say, flying is much much more stringent than riding a motorcycle.
Sure there’s a big difference between 40 and 1500 hours, but no matter how you slice it, there are greater pains to making sure flying is safer than driving
Plus planes are checked before every use, and very few people are flying light aircraft in a reckless manner.
I'd be very surprised if there were any stats to backup a claim that light aircraft are as dangerous as motorcycles.
Here you go - https://pilotinstitute.com/is-flying-safer-than-driving/#personal-flights https://inspire.eaa.org/2017/05/11/how-safe-is-it/
Comparing accidents per hour might make sense if you’re only looking at them as recreational activities—but if you’re comparing them as forms of transportation, shouldn’t we be comparing accidents per mile?
Yeah you could totally make that argument. A cessna cruises at around 125 knots (143 mph) and google tells me the speed limit on a US highway is 85 mph.
It's still less safe than driving a car, and not as safe as people assume all flying is (thanks to commercial flying being amazingly safe).
Only cager squares follow the speed limit
24.83 fatalities in 2019 and 25.95 in 2018 per 100 million miles ridden on motorcycle according to the source of the other article: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812979.pdf
If we take the value for personal flights:
I'm going to assume 125 mph as I'm skeptical of your 145 mph figure.
= 21.1 fatal per 125 million miles
= 16.88 fatal per 100 million miles of personal flights
I'd basically conclude that personal flights and motorbike are in the same ballpark whether you're looking at hours or miles.
No, I would agree that comparing by hour is reasonable. Most light aircraft use (in my area at least) is generally recreational. People are flying because they enjoy the hobby rather than because they have a destination in mind, therefore they'll fly for a long duration but the distance travelled might not be far