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~ flying is safer than driving |
Until you are in a Cessna and your engine conks out, and you say to yourself "yeah, so if I was in my Honda Civic right now I could just pull over into the side lane and put my four way flashers on and call a tow truck".
In the plane, you say to yourself "my engine just conked out, I'll probably end up flying into a tree, breaking all the bones in my body, or maybe even crash the plane in the middle of a city where there are high rise buildings"
Yeah flying is safer than driving.
Try running out of fuel. I bet conking out on the side of the road with your fuel light on in your car, is just a tad bit less stressful than running out of fuel, in the MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING AIR.
Parachute? That's safe too, when you have to eject. In a car, you just... open your door and step out on to something called "land", otherwise known as "planet earth" which your car is actually secured on, unlike your plane.
Let's see, your spoiler (rear wing) on your car for some reason is not set up correctly... the worst that could happen in a car, is, well... maybe your car won't have enough downforce. Whoopty ding dong. In a plane, if your rudder or flaps fail you could literally kill yourself. Flat tire: pull over, maybe end up in a ditch. Landing gear on a plane damaged: could it be worse...
Yeah planes are safer than cars.
-Assuming, that, you're on a boring, utterly boring, flying trip on a commercial airline....
Try actually having fun in a plane for a moment, and sorry boys, you're fucked. No side road to pull over on when you run out of gas or go a little off course and realize, this complex pile of parts in the middle of the AIR, is broken. And I'm going to crash, and die, and burn.
Sure you can crash your car too. Driving is dangerous, make no mistake.
But this "flying is safer than driving" bull shit is all because some guy was on a boring air path from one boring city to the next on Air Canada or Delta airlines, not because he actually took a Cessna or fighter jet into his hands and did something interesting.
Oh and try "landing your car".... it's called "parking". On land... Tell me again... is flying a plane onto a runway, where you can crash the plane and kill yourself, safer than pulling your car into the garage and putting the parking brake on? Yes because you could in fact break your wrist, pulling that hand brake, or even sprain a finger. Driving, especially parking a car, is a death wish... a death wish to your wrist and index finger.
Indeed parking a car can get you into an accident with another car, but for fucks sakes folks, you're on land. Try getting into an accident with another plane in the air and see what happens....
The only reason accidents don't happen in the air is because nobody actually flies. There isn't anyone flying, other than boring commercial jets and passenger jets. When people are actually flying, like in a fucking war zone, people get KILLED. Because flying is extremely dangerous, when people actually DO IT, i.e. participate. Millions of cars drive every day which increases the chances of collisions because people are actually out there DRIVING, but no one is flying - because no one gives a flying bagoodle about flying.. and why? Because cars are practical. Planes are the most impractical, expensive, and complex (knobs galore, ever seen a cockpit?) pieces of equipment.
How many dangerous nobs are there in a car? There are a couple: steering wheel, brake pedal, gas pedal. Now how many dangerous knobs are in an aircraft? I've lost count. "What does this knob do over here?" comes to mind.
Don't forget to hit the eject button, because we all know parachuting down and breaking your legs when you hit a tree, which saves you from killing yourself due to the padding of the leaves, is "safer than pulling over into the side lane".
I like pilots flying marine jets onto aircraft carriers with just a wire to stop them, because there is a high chance of them killing themselves; and that is thrilling and takes balls. Not because it's safe. This safety of flying myth all started because of some boring airline that makes a predictable autopilot trip (read: pilot doesn't actually fly the plane or do anything) from Toronto to Vancouver or Chicago to Orlando. i.e. the only "safe" flying, is completely boring predictable flying... call it Air Canada, Delta Airlines or such.
Fly a Cessna from your acreage with not enough fuel to make it to the next farmers field and tell me it's safe, when you stall in mid air. I'll be pulling over on the side road in my Honda Civic or Lamborghini and looking in the farmers field off the side road for any aircraft wreckage... Wait, is that a parachute in a tree I see with a guy screaming his leg is broken and his spine is shattered into three (hundred) pieces?
Flying requires extremely special long term schools to make people capable of flying... that should be a clue. If flying is so safe, why all the intensive long term training required, and all the warnings by your pilot instructor? Maybe when air fuel stations are developed in mid air, that planes can stop at.... "Air Gas Stations", we'll see the start of flying "safe". But even then, we won't. Or maybe when energy systems are developed to not require fuel up, such as a nuclear power source on board the plane... so you don't need to stop and fuel up....
Then we have the question: is helicopter travel safer than a car or airplane? At least a helicopter can stop in mid air at one of those hovering gas stations, and pick up the groceries at the convenience store next to it.
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