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To: smokingfrog

25 years experience. Yet, anytime a plane leaves the ground, there is danger. Yes, a lower level of danger than driving in a car, but, the risk is still there. At least he went doing something he loved. Most pilots I know absolutely love it up there. For some, flying a private plane is even better than golfing.


4 posted on 05/28/2016 10:36:07 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

My husband flies a P51 Thunder Mustang aka Blue Nosed Bastard.
He can be a golfaholic but I’d say you’re right - he would choose flying over golf.

We also have a turbo Bonanza (which is his other car) and he flies corporate jets as well...a die hard pilot.


7 posted on 05/28/2016 10:46:25 PM PDT by Aria (2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
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To: lee martell

“For some, flying a private plane is even better than golfing.”

With both costing about the same, in the end.

For most of us, the choice is easy. Soaring with eagles beats hitting little balls with expensive sticks, anytime...


11 posted on 05/28/2016 11:12:03 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: lee martell

It’s like Eddie Rickenbacker said: “If it moves, it’s dangerous.”


12 posted on 05/28/2016 11:17:45 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: lee martell
For some, flying a private plane is even better than golfing.

LOLROFLMAO!

Someone actually compared flying an airplane to golfing?

I only wish I had the money to fly.

15 posted on 05/28/2016 11:40:35 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: lee martell

Cars dont fall out of the sky when they crash. Not usually.


17 posted on 05/28/2016 11:58:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lee martell

“anytime a plane leaves the ground, there is danger. Yes, a lower level of danger than driving in a car,”

Air travel on a jumbo or most other airliners’ planes is said to be safer than traveling by automobile and it probably is, but the chances of surviving airplane crashes are probably less.


27 posted on 05/29/2016 2:52:05 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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