Originally Posted by
Mayhemxpc
Nothing in life is "safe." Everything carries risk. This is particularly true regarding flying -- flying anything. But we seem to live in a society that is risk averse about a great many things. The time will come Ron, and possibly quite soon, where these risk averse decision makers will decide that flying planes older than 50 years, or 25 years, is not in the public interest, that they create a safety hazard for the general public. Then they will decide that any private aviation at all is hazardous to the public and must be banned.