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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
I do however feel perfectly safe in small light fixed wing aircraft provided I am flying over flat terrain in daylight VFR conditions.
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Tim - what is your definition of "flat terrain"? Open fields of Nebraska? Anything other than mountainous? I've seen you say this before, and I keep going back to it when I think about getting my license.
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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
For the last several years a company has been demonstrating tiny helicopters called mosquitoes. They are cool as hell, but once again, the thought of one of the main/tail rotor linkages taking a duke due to fatigue scares the poo out of me.
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I've seen these too, and they are very cool, but look scary. At least two of them have been involved in fatal accidents - and I'd guess there are not a ton of them out there.
Are autogyro's really safer than helicopters, and if so, why? The fact that a sport pilot can get certified on a gyro, but not a heli, leads me to believe gyro's are safer. They *look* more dangerous though!
Thanks
Matt
(from mostly-flat NJ).