Flying vs Driving

[bruceb58]

Re: Flying vs Driving

Oh, it really does matter, Brewman. Forget passenger miles and use passenger hours. Suddenly passenger hours per death are a different thing than passenger miles.

Still why you would want to do it that way. If you want to figure if its safer to fly 500 miles or drive 500 miles you would have to convert back depending on how fast a plane flies and how fast each driver drives.

If they want to be honest about it they shouldn't use the number of people that fly so many miles but do it by trip. That way it doesn't show a plane being safer if there are 300 people on board vs 1 person on board.

 

[12vMan]

Re: Flying vs Driving

No fly zone here. My take on flying is if God had wanted me to fly he would have given me wings.

John Madden feels the same way...could you imagine him with some little wings..

 

[Fed]

Re: Flying vs Driving

All Americans should fly, you're second only to Greece in the bad driver stakes.
http://www.caradvice.com.au/2852/road-toll-statistics-australia-getting-worse/

 

[waterinthefuel]

Re: Flying vs Driving

JB, it's not fair to use passenger hours because cars average 55mph and planes over 500. It takes 12 hours to drive to Chatanooga from here, but an hour and a half in a small turboprop airliner. To compare 12 hours of driving to 12 hours of flying isn't right. You must keep it on an even scale.

I read that if you would randomly choose a car to take a trip in each day, it would take you 90 days before you picked one that got into an accident, and chances are you would die in the accident. For an airplane, it would take you 10,000 years, on average, to choose a flight every day at random, that crashed, and you would probably survive the accident.

I did a research project on just this topic in college and did a presentation in front of the class about this. Flying is WAY safer than driving. However, small GA aircraft are actually 10 times more dangerous than driving. But considering that 90% of all accidents are not the fault of the plane, you can't fault flying. Fault faulty pilots!

 

[DaNinja]

Re: Flying vs Driving

Twenty-two years as a safety geek....Commercial aviation is safer because of the meticulous risk management that is involved. Anyone can hop in a car without a passing thought and hit the highway. Commercial pilots are highly trained and regulated. Their aircraft are maintained by the book. (exceptions do occur with both, but it is rare). Everything they do is subject to inspection.

Most of our accidents were ground/vehicle accidents. The aviation accidents got more attention, though, because they were so much more expensive.

Mission accomplishment through Risk Management!

 

[JustJason]

Re: Flying vs Driving

I was in an MD80 5 or 6 years ago that lost and engine at 25,000+ feet. Everything that was not strapped to a chair, was up in the air.

I haven't flown since, and am not really to keen on it now.

Especially now with all this mail bomb crap.

 

[CheapboatKev]

Re: Flying vs Driving

I fly all over the U.S....other than being treated like cattle, I never worry or feel unsafe...Like anything, driving, walking, sitting in your lazyboy at home..

When the Lord wants you home you go, it can be with 200 fellow passengers, or by yourself driving into a tree...dead is dead.

 

[DaNinja]

Re: Flying vs Driving

The only problem I have with commercial is that, after twenty years in a cockpit, I'm a lousy passenger.

 

[mscher]

Re: Flying vs Driving

I like to keep things simple.

Yesterday, 25,000 flights took-off and landed worldwide, most likely all without any major injuries or deaths.

Could we say the same thing about yesterday, on the world's highways?

 

[Dave Barnett]

Re: Flying vs Driving

Here is the safe way to go. LOL

 

[LippCJ7]

Re: Flying vs Driving

I agree that flying is safer then driving in fact much safer, BUT the reason why I don't fly is because its the only time I have to give up my constitutional rights to be admitted and I will not do that, it's my choice and therefore I do not spend my money with the airlines, even though its the government that regulates and therefore dictates this hipocrisy.

 

[bruceb58]

Re: Flying vs Driving

BUT the reason why I don't fly is because its the only time I have to give up my constitutional rights to be admitted and I will not do that, it's my choice and therefore I do not spend my money with the airlines, even though its the government that regulates and therefore dictates this hipocrisy.

And which constitutional right do you think you are giving up? Your 4th ammendment right?

I take it you never go to europe, asia or Hawaii?

 

[dingbat]

Re: Flying vs Driving

I'm in the million mile clubs of both Delta and United, long haul, and average 6 legs of air travel a month domestically, mostly Southwest. Who here can claim as many miles by car and have never had some much as a fender bender?

Heading to Brazil in two weeks. More worried about having a car accident on my way to a meeting in Pittsburgh next week.

 

[waterinthefuel]

Re: Flying vs Driving

I used to work for a company that did maintenance on Airbus airliners. The airplane would come in, have a few dozen mechanics and inspectors go over it with a fine tooth comb, correcting any problems, documenting them, etc, and then shoot it off on it's way. How many cars get that kind of care every few months?

Flying is safer for many reasons. For one less obvious one, there is less crap to hit at 35,000 feet! LOL

 

[LippCJ7]

Re: Flying vs Driving

And which constitutional right do you think you are giving up? Your 4th ammendment right?

I take it you never go to europe, asia or Hawaii?

2nd amendment and your right I don't go to europe, asia or hawaii