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Originally Posted by ryan stewart
I mean, yeah, but if my car dies I dont need awesome stick and rudder skills, I just put my flashers on and coast to the side of the road. And the last time I hit a bird I had to buy a new grille once I got home from the road trip 8 days later.
Big planes dont bother me but Im SUPER picky about whose small plane Ill get into. Hell, when I got into skydiving the easiest part was jumping out of some of those planes...
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You should check out an aircraft engine some time. For example, the Lycoming 0-360 is a 360 cubic inch 4 cylinder engine that makes 180 BHp. That's it.
They are over-engineered to the nth degree and have so many redundant systems - 2 sets of spark plugs running on 2 separate magnetos (not reliant on the battery working at all). They are very reliable, and they're generally maintained impeccably. You can't compare them to someone's car that might get an oil change once every few years if it's lucky. They have strict maintenance intervals that must be adhered to.