Originally Posted by
Han Solo
You're right, how many friends of yours died while performing regional pilot duties? You don't need to answer because everybody already knows.
Originally Posted by
Han Solo
Is your google less effective than mine? Figure it out and report back. Fact is your questions are likely impossible to accurately answer with any degree of honesty. One could certainly pick and choose statistics that support their cause. Alaska bush pilots probably have the highest mortality rate, although I'm sure somebody here will tell me how they were an Alaska bush pilot and now fly for major XXX I'd be willing to bet that's not the path most people choose to take with the end goal being a major airline pilot. After that it gets almost impossible to find anything definitive.
I'm not the one that made the claim that 'everyone knows that more military people die during their training than civilians do.' The onus is not on me to back the numbers up. I never made the claim.
The issue I want to bring up is that having an argument about civilian vs military and whose balls are bigger will net you nothing.
A person should be more about how they treat people after the journey is complete.
As I cross the finish line of a marathon, I'm not going to look at the guy or gal that finishes next to me and start telling him he wasn't as good an athlete because he chose to do high altitude training while I chose to do pool training. We both finished the race at the same time. Instead, I'll meet up with him at the beer tent afterwards and share stories and find out what he learned while running in the mountains. And he'll probably ask me what I learned while I was pounding laps at the LA Fitness. And we'll have a good time.
The insecure will start screaming about how their training is the best, and everyone else is a lesser person for not doing it "their way."