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agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Yikes.

For a while I hated flying. Freaked me out even though I knew statistically it is a safe form of travel. Then I watched a bunch of Air Disasters shows and realized how many fixes they have put in place and I felt a lot better about flying.

Then I subbed to /r/AviationMaintenance. I really don’t want to fly anymore.

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RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The whole Boeing Max shitshow is why flying makes me nervous now.

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- LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Flying is still safer than driving, FWIW. Not sure if that makes you feel better about flying or worse about driving (for me it’s the latter).
  
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  - CoderKat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s kinda weird actually how normalized driving is. There’s a lot of people who are so scared of flying that they won’t do it. But far fewer people take such an approach to being in a personal vehicle, despite being massively more dangerous.
    
    I think it’s because car deaths are just so normalized that most people are numb to them. It’s kinda like that iconic Joker monologue about how it’s “all according to the plan”. People are afraid of exemplary things, not the mundane things that will actually kill them.
    
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    andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Also, not driving is not really an option in a lot of places. Driving terrifies me, but I just have to deal or not eat 🤷‍♂️
    
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    LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m personally more afraid of driving. The learning and tests for pilots are extensive (I’ve done a lot of it), but any moron can get a driving license, and most lose much of that knowledge shortly after.
    
    Other drivers are fucking scary.
    
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PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The first time I went skydiving, my instructor was a retired aircraft mechanic. He said something along the lines of “People always ask me why I’d want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. I tell them that I worked on planes for 30 years, and there is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane.”

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flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Used to think it was statistically safe, then 737MAX crashes happened. Not trusting any airplane manufacturer any more.

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