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Jim, I feel safer flying a small single engine airplane in my part of the country (farm fields mainly) provided I am flying in DAY VFR conditions. If the engine ever quits, one has options. I myself, get nervous flying over water, over vast wooded/hilly areas, flying anywhere at night or in marginal weather when in a single engine airplane. If one avoids the above scenarios that all lead to bad juju if the engine quits, flying is very safe.
If you plan to attain your private for the SOLE purpose of commuting over long cross country flights, forget it. Weather will get in the way. An instrument rating would help, but you would still be over the mountains/trees, in the clouds with only one engine (unless you are made of money).
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