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  • I would say that casual flying can be pretty much as safe as skiing or rock climbing. It’s an extreme sport and accidents happen but most of them are minor. The risk of something serious happening on a beginners wing and on a calm day is rather low. The problem is that flying on a calm day gets boring (you’re zig-zagging close to the mountain all the time) and to keep learning and advancing you have to do more and more dangerous things. It’s typical for people to push until they get out of their comfort zone and hit a limit. I knew people that did one or two solo flights and were done. Others pushed until first minor injury. I tried cross country flying and it was too much for me. Others are fearless and become real pilots. Each step means new dangers and higher risk.


  • Yes and no. Definitely acro is way more deadly than casual flying but I’ve seen and heard about weird accidents happening to people without doing anything crazy. A friend of mine wanted to do a tandem flight. She took off with very experienced pilot on a very calm day and some totally random downdraft suddenly pulled them down and they landed hard in the middle of the mountain. By some miracle both were fine. A lot that happened in my area were foreign tourist not familiar with the terrain and not having enough experience trying to fly on normal days and simply making stupid mistakes.











  • The other guy just said ‘no one cares’. It’s not aggressive in any way, it’s informative. I also don’t care at all about karma. I didn’t care when I was on reddit and I care even less now. If you agree with this sentiment you can upvote it, if you don’t agree you can downvote. 0 emotions are involved. Then you attacked this guy accusing him of hate. No one was hostile until you showed up.