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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

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Re: Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

causal wrote: post #80
user_7832 wrote: post #77

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Typically, in places like NTSB reports (or GA - private aviation - accidents in general), it often is human preventable. But the thing is different people have very different tolerance limits. Pilot A might skip flying if the weather looks bad. Pilot B might go "well the storm's actually only at x location on my route, I'll fly around it". Pilot C might insist on more fuel but take the flight. I'm not pretending it's…

I think it's important to multiply "likelihood of the human making a mistake" by "how many times the human must avoid a mistake". If your hobby presents 100 avoidable-but-life-threatening mistakes an hour, it's a dangerous hobby.

Driving a car presents 100 avoidable-but-life-threatening-potential-mistakes an hour. I'm personally exceptionally risk-averse and avoid cars for that reason, but I don't think that level of risk aversion necessarily needs to be typical. It's certainly worth pointing out that a safety-conscious person can significantly reduce the risk of a given activity, even if they can't eliminate it completely. And, to be honest, I'd rather encourage risk-aware pilots to take up the hobby! Airliner pilots have to come from somewhere, and I'd prefer if my airline pilot was one who considered the risks of flying and did it anyways rather than having an airline pilot who is totally reckless and simply doesn't care about risks.

Re: Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

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Post by yzmtf2008 »

pixl97 wrote: post #74
ultrarunner wrote: post #23

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Well, you'll probably get your wish in the US anyway. I just paid $50 for a 2 inch square vacuum pump cover that should have cost $5. I have oil hoses that I would like to replace, but the $750 price tag (up $200 in six months) is giving me pause— replace, hope for the best, or hang it up and stop flying? Like it or not, more force will definitely raise costs, but it'll also push folks from category one to categories…

>or hang it up and stop flying Yes please. If you can't afford flying around a missle, DON'T.

I thought really hard about coming up with an actual response, but no, you don’t deserve one.

Gee, the aviation world would be so much safer if everyone just listened to pixl97.

Re: Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

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Post by stevage »

BoredPositron wrote: post #78
zahlman wrote: post #36

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Hmm? What else did I miss?

From here https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/cZE1TCwb2B June 8: A Gulfstream G200 crashed while landing at La Romana International in the DR, it was on the way to pick up former MLB player Yadier Molina, but it had to make an emergency landing. Both pilots, the only occupants, died. June 10: A Pakistan Army Aviation Mi-17 helicopter crashed near Muzaffarabad. All 22 on board perished. June 11: Turkish Airlines Fligh…

I'm not sure if the incident with the bees really belongs....

Re: Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

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Post by schmookeeg »

deadbabe wrote: post #69
bombcar wrote: post #50

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I had a similar decision to make (pilot or motorbike) and the fact that 60%+ of aviation deaths are pilot error and something like 60%+ of motorcycle crashes are NOT the rider's fault - led me to be a pilot. At least then I can try to make good decisions, e.g, DO NOT FLY INTO WEATHER.

The stakes get even higher if you fly a plane with your entire family in it. One bad error and you will almost certainly have killed them all.

A "bad error" in a minivan does this too. The "bad error" in the plane would be flying into a thunderstorm. I equate this gobsmackingly bad judgement with driving a minivan off of a cliff.

Re: Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

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Post by marshray »

iwontberude wrote: post #33

So many nerds here in Silicon Valley love to fly small aircraft, it’s an autistic comorbidity. You’ll never catch me acting so foolish.

When/where I grew up (the United States), private planes were thought of as auto-un-aliving machines for Doctors and Dentists.

Boomers and older generations tended to think of them as part of rural life. E.g. farmers would sometimes put an airstrip on a spare field. There's an episode of Mayberry (The Andy Griffith Show) in which Aunt Bea gets her pilots license.

Re: Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

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Post by schmookeeg »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #83

Sad for this. I am wondering: what's the data on how safe, or unsafe, "private" planes are, e.g. compared to commercial jets?

You'll want the McSpadden report (formerly the Nall report) here [1]

Pay attention to the accidents per 100,000 hours in commercial vs non-commercial fixed wing. Commercial is about 10-40x safer.

[1] https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/air-safety-institut...

Re: Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

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Post by schmookeeg »

ultrarunner wrote: post #14
kylecazar wrote: post #8

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I clicked a news article a few months ago about a crash... Google has since decided I need to know about all future aviation accidents. I was surprised how frequent it happens. Two brothers were killed in a Cessna just the other day. I suppose it's a combination of lower maintenance standards and pilot experience, definitely doesn't make me want to hop in a small plane anytime soon.

Counterintuitively, it's probably the unrealistically high maintenance standards that lead to 1) no available qualified mechanics, and 2) incredibly high prices, resulting in 3) deferring whatever is possible to defer. This is the situation in the US; I imagine costs are doubly impactful in a country like France.

There are more responses to "hard to schedule, hard to afford" than "defer everything possible"

You can fly something smaller and more inline with your budget

You can share the plane with partners

You can get a motorcycle or boat instead.

...I do not disagree that your presented "option 3" is a common one. That hurts me as both an instructor and a mechanic.

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