And yet you keep ignoring the fact that all forms of commercial aviation have an excellent safety record.
That means that if you add up annual US fatalities in the small 2-4 passenger planes that you are irrationally worried about, plus slightly larger planes of 4-10 passengers that you are irrationally worried about, plus charter planes of 5-50 passengers, plus regional carriers, plus major airliners, plus any other air passengers you can imagine …
… the grand total would average about ten deaths per year. Still less dangerous than lightning.
And now you want me to believe that this excellent multi-decade safety record would magically be upended by building more aircraft, even though we are already building more aircraft - of all types - and have been for decades.
gregorum@lemm.ee 9 months ago
“Excellent safety record” is a relative term, and only one compared to cars. But we’re not comparing anything here to driving, I’m just pointing out that the small aircraft are relatively dangerous, and adding a whole lot more of them to the skies increases the danger even further, and that’s something that you’re continuing to ignore.
It’s an absurd argument to make, as you are, that any any number of these vehicles would be safe, yet you continue to make it. You’re completely departed from reality, as you continue to conflate all commercial aircraft with small aircraft, and to continue to insist that these tiny aircraft with no safety record behind them whatsoever Would be safe let alone to insist that they would not increase the danger inherently.
Just stop with this ridiculous nonsense.
FlowVoid@midwest.social 9 months ago
Small commercial aircraft have an excellent safety record relative to every other commercial form of transportation.
Do you really need to have it explained to you how private aircraft have nothing to do with this conversation? LMAO.
We are discussing small commercial aircraft here. And small commercial aircraft have an excellent safety record relative to every other form of commercial transportation.
If the FAA thinks they are safe, then I believe they are safe. I am definitely not taking your opinion over theirs, since you know nothing about commercial aircraft and are incapable of distinguishing commercial aircraft from private aircraft.
Another uninformed opinion. It must be very convenient for you to ignore FAA safety guidelines. But I trust the FAA to determine whether the skies are too congested, not you.
gregorum@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Its not an “opinion” but that adding a bunch of these new, experimental craft increases risk, it’s a fact which you continue to ignore while you keep using false equivalencies and straw men while performing mental gymnastics to argue in circles.
The truth is, there is no safety record, establish for these vehicles, because they haven’t been flown like this before. Keep living in your fantasy because that’s all your argument is and nothing you say can change that.
FlowVoid@midwest.social 9 months ago
No, it’s an opinion. Actually, “fearmongering” is the right term.
You are afraid of new technology. The FAA isn’t. And if the FAA isn’t, then neither am I. Because they understand aviation, and you don’t.