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Re:US Court of Appeals Takes on Ridesharing in Aviation by userbinator on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @07:02PM (#10300444)
On the other hand, nearly 100 people in the US die in car accidents every day... GA is definitely far riskier than commercial airlines, but driving also is.
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Re:US Court of Appeals Takes on Ridesharing in Aviation by notahacker on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @07:43PM (#10300683)
If you look at the numbers of people that drive per day versus the number of people that fly in GA aircraft per day your perceptions of which option is riskiest might shift...

Either way, it's orders of magnitude more dangerous than commercial aviation (not something you can say for Uber vs buses) and one thing guaranteed to increase that risk is GA pilots trying to reach specific destinations at specific times to satisfy their paying customers.

Which reminds me, I've got a GA "flight experience" to pick a date for ;-)

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Re:US Court of Appeals Takes on Ridesharing in Aviation by alistairSH on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @08:35PM (#10300924)
Even after adjusting for miles (or hours) traveled?
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Re:US Court of Appeals Takes on Ridesharing in Aviation by ibejoeb on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:55AM (#10301879)
I don't think comparisons can be drawn there. It's impossible to do a 2000 mile drive in a day. I regular do two of those flights. Likewise, there are not many 20-minute flights.

It seems to me that the only relevant statistic is likelihood of death per embarkation.

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Re:US Court of Appeals Takes on Ridesharing in Aviation by mikeyouse on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:44AM (#10301833)
Found an interesting answer on StackExchange; http://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/211
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