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Originally Posted by Hondaracer

on the same note, almost my whole life i've had a fascination with planes. Flown quite extensively, watched countless documentries on aviation, war planes, comercial aircraft, crash shows such as mayday etc.

call mine more of a morbid fascination but most of my interest stems in just how unremarkably reliable aircraft are in general. I have a very good understanding in mechanics, engines, etc. and even a bit of electronics/avionics and it still amazes me

on that note i'm curious have any of you guys been on any truely terrible flights? IE. mech failure etc?

I have a few friends who's family lived in Africa [pointe noir specifically] and it essentially took 26 hours of flying to reach a 2 hour jeep ride to get where they lived, each of them flew the route numerous times with the last plane being essentially a foot race to pack the plane until there was no more room and take off. Call if ignorance etc. but outside of one time where my friend did not think the plane would clear the trees, he said they always felt safe lol

There's so much redundancy in the systems it's ridiculous. Also, being so heavily regulated helps as well.