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Anonymous asked: When I was a kid a family friend who was a pilot taught us that flying a commercial plane was so safe and easy it was boring while also scaring us to death with horror stories about idiots in private planes. In hindsight I have no idea how he straddled that line but it worked, I have zero fear of flying but you couldn\u2019t pay me to get in some rich dude\u2019s cessna
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In the same spirit as those memes where \u201cpeople who watch anime\u201d and \u201cpeople who don\u2019t watch anime\u201d bond over making fun of people who watch anime, private pilots join with professional pilots in contempt for private pilots

I remember when Flying magazine, the private pilots\u2019 periodical, had the Aftermath column of 3-5 summarized NTSB reports each month so you could learn not to be like those idiots

That\u2019s where I learned the Beechcraft Bonanza was called \u201cThe Doctor Killer\u201d

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