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by capex 4479 days ago
Would you like a comfortable first class seat in a jet airliner, or perhaps fly your own little 2 seater?

There are advantages in flying the 2 seater. You might get sponsored by one of those large companies, and if you convince someone to fly with you, there is a chance that you'll soon be buying a 4 seater. And on and on.

The jet airliner doesn't offer all those possibilities, but it does give you a very predictable flight.

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However, other passengers on the jet will form little cliques & play Game of Thrones with each other, with the losers getting thrown out of the plane. If you fail to join the right clique, sooner or later, you'll be skydiving.

Sometimes the pilots will go crazy, screw up, or get highjacked, and you'll die by landing 30ft short of the runway, running out of fuel over the southern indian ocean, etc.

Even on a perfect flight, your talent and hard work will likely have had minimal influence.

I will take the Cessna 152 please.