M. Adam Davis wrote:
>> Most GA pilots have an order of magnitude higher
>> chance of dying in a car accident.
>
> What is the metric?  Deaths per year (absolute) or deaths per
> person/mile traveled (relative) or something else?

Deaths per pilot, of course. :)

While flying a private GA aircraft is several times more dangerous on a mile 
per mile basis, you also have to look at the ratio of miles driven vs miles 
flown by an average pilot. Of course I may be full of it, since this last 
metric is from my own observations and anecdotal evidence.

Vitaliy 

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