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Light aviation in general is an incredibly bad idea from a safety perspective [1]:

> Taking the preliminary 2013 fatality rate in general aviation of 1.05 fatalities for every 100,000 hours of flight time and scaling it up to 2 million hours gives a comparison rate of 21 general aviation fatalities per every 2 million hours. This suggests that stepping on a private plane is about 19 times more dangerous than getting into the family sedan.

[1]: https://www.livescience.com/49701-private-planes-safety.html




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