"Kamikaze-two-one, go around."

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Skybird

See it that way:

Roughly 2600 near misses and almost mid-air collisions means a statistical mean value of 1.78 "almost happened desasters" - per day.

Mostly from Private Pilots in VFR conditions - because they are too busy watching the scenery. In the thousands of hours i have in the cockpit (I grew up in an airplane practically), I was taught to always scan the sky constantly.

If you want to put it that way - an airplane crashes on average once per day, killing at least one person a day. Now if you want to look at that on a statistical scale, that is phenominaly low considering how many aircraft are actually in the sky at a given moment in time.

Compare that to travelling by car and you can't go 1 second practically without a fatal incident!

-S

PS. Level with me. I see you have a fear in your writing in both past and present of aircraft. Countless times you post about aircraft and dangers. If I were Freud..... I'd have to guess you have a fear of flying, but it doesn't stop there. I'd venture to conclude that you even have a fear of them of simply flying over your head. I'd even go so far as to think you may not only have this fear, but you are also are extremely facinated by flight.... :hmm: