Flown a variety of types during course of 15,000 hours, much of it in training roles.
Operated US, European, African and Far Eastern… from whence TELEDRONE (!)
Have seen and doubtless been near death in aircraft… (ref Airbus conference).
Airline cadet fatality rate of ‘60s revisited due expansion of aviation in China.
Number of deaths alone due to aviation since 1970 alone exceeds 84,000.
What of the ’Iceberg Effect’ or ratio of incidents to actual accidents?
Or the ratio of unreported incidents to the reported: ref Wizz, BMI, UFOs (!)
Social media is not real life, nor is what you see on YouTube real aviation, for…
“Below the sea of clouds lies eternity.” Saint Exupery.
What defined aviation in the twentieth century was operational experience, whereas what defines its migration toward electrical flight is theory, speculation and experiment. A fear of missing out means airlines and governments need to be seen engaging in technology with uncertain outcome and thus the prospect of significant losses, notwithstanding the effects of externalities like climate-change or pandemics. As Richard Branson has said, space was not something he’d have got into had he known the costs of doing so prior.
