I wasn't looking at it from that perspective. I was looking at it as a rideshare service. Example: a pilot already has a flight scheduled and you can join if there is room available. Not one where they are trying to make a living off of chartering people around.
Adding humans to these existing flights does not make them more dangerous, but creating more private charter flights may very well be more dangerous. There is some good data linked above that indicates they are equally dangerous.
So Jim in Vermont is going to New Haven, CT tomorrow to see his sister. Jeff has a business meeting in the same city and figures he can save some time waiting around in airports if he flies with Jim and pays half the costs.
At takeoff time, weather around the CT coast looks iffy. Jim would rather stay home and see his sister next weekend instead. Jeff can't get a flight on such short order, and tells Jim he really needs to make the meeting or a big contract is lost. He offers to pay Jim 2x the full flight costs to make his meeting.
What Jim will do in this situation is likely very different than if he hadn't agreed to take Jeff along.
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I wasn't looking at it from that perspective. I was looking at it as a rideshare service. Example: a pilot already has a flight scheduled and you can join if there is room available. Not one where they are trying to make a living off of chartering people around.
Adding humans to these existing flights does not make them more dangerous, but creating more private charter flights may very well be more dangerous. There is some good data linked above that indicates they are equally dangerous.
YMMV I guess.
So Jim in Vermont is going to New Haven, CT tomorrow to see his sister. Jeff has a business meeting in the same city and figures he can save some time waiting around in airports if he flies with Jim and pays half the costs.
At takeoff time, weather around the CT coast looks iffy. Jim would rather stay home and see his sister next weekend instead. Jeff can't get a flight on such short order, and tells Jim he really needs to make the meeting or a big contract is lost. He offers to pay Jim 2x the full flight costs to make his meeting.
What Jim will do in this situation is likely very different than if he hadn't agreed to take Jeff along.
:( poor Jim and Jeff