If you crash your motorcycle, there is no structure protecting you. Your tender body parts make contact with the ground very quickly. Been there.

If you crash your airplane, you are in a structure that absorbs energy. And I have witnesses some pretty high speed aircraft impacts with the ground that only resulted in minor injuries.

Statistics are funny things. Airplanes cover a lot more miles than motorcycles. Per mile I don't buy the notion that airplanes and motorcycles are equivalent. And I will suggest that it is per mile that counts.

The most critical part of safety is common sense and using your brain. And I look at the concerns expressed here and realize that if aviation worked the way some folks fear, I should have been dead at least 1500 skydives and 3000+ pilot hours ago.

Go fly. Be happy.

Best of luck,

Wes
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