I would have wanted to know how many accidents and how many deaths per flight. In the mid-'90s, when I still lived in DC, you could get a half an hour flight with an instructor for a nominal fee. I took my niece a handful of times, the first when she was 7, and we'd each get to fly. She did so well the first time the instructor gave her an extra take off and landing.
When I took her, I assumed that with an instructor, this activity was VERY safe, in large part because it's hard to find anything to crash into in the sky. Caution genes run in my family. My parents got seat belts in the '57 Chevy in 1960 or '61, we had the first Peugeot wagon in France with rear shoulder belts, as my father showed the men at the factory how to install them (a simple topological problem) and I got Bell hard-shelled helmet serial # 7022 back when you had to mail order them.
I'm still guessing that our flights were quite safe, but I'm wondering just a little.
I would have wanted to know how many accidents and how many deaths per flight. In the mid-'90s, when I still lived in DC, you could get a half an hour flight with an instructor for a nominal fee. I took my niece a handful of times, the first when she was 7, and we'd each get to fly. She did so well the first time the instructor gave her an extra take off and landing.
When I took her, I assumed that with an instructor, this activity was VERY safe, in large part because it's hard to find anything to crash into in the sky. Caution genes run in my family. My parents got seat belts in the '57 Chevy in 1960 or '61, we had the first Peugeot wagon in France with rear shoulder belts, as my father showed the men at the factory how to install them (a simple topological problem) and I got Bell hard-shelled helmet serial # 7022 back when you had to mail order them.
I'm still guessing that our flights were quite safe, but I'm wondering just a little.