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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
In some states, you have to have special training to ride a horse...but apparently NOT so for driving a car!
In so many ways, flying a plane is just as deadly as driving a car...so, maybe getting a driver's licence should be just as rigorus & demanding to get as pilot's licence!!!
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Flying is more dangerous in principle. But in terms of traffic, those highways in the sky are miles wide.
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I recall reading in Chuck Yeager's autobiography how he and a co-pilot actually fell asleep while commuting cross-country, only to wake up after an hour or so to find their airplane lazily circling a field in the middle of nowhere.
Try doing
that in a car.
(errh... or don't... and don't try it in a plane. He was damn lucky to have not died doing that!)