fgcason
En-Route
When you're measuring the safety record, you don't stop with just the number of survivors.
Seriously? What's' so dangerous about it?
In order to be a survivor, you have to crash first. If you didn't crash, you're not a survivor. Somehow or another, just about the entire pilot population managed to magically not crash while doing the dreaded infinitely deadly touch and go..including hundreds of thousands of single digit hour students flying tailwheel airplanes since nearly the beginning of flight. (yes, believe it or not, people also use to somehow manage to solo safely in less than 40hours of flight time) T/G's are routine flying, not reckless dangerous operations. It only became something dangerous to do when the touchy feely overthink everything safety at all cost nutjobs took over and started crying about stuff...waaaa you might get hurt... Of course you might get hurt. If you stupidly quit flying the airplane the instant the wheels touch the ground, that can wad a plane up, but it's self inflicted if that happens. Of course those same safety first people still take a shower and drive their cars every day but who's counting risk factors in life.
Sheesh. Too much thinking, not enough doing...