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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(Title intended to add a bit of levity to serious post.)
Soaring can kill you, but how do we put that risk into perspective? A statistics based Mortality Calculator helped me do that. I answered a few questions about my medical profile and age and it told me that statistically I have a 19% chance of dieing in the next ten years from natural causes or from an accident of any kind. Say a 1 in 5 chance. (Sucks of course.) The calculator does not properly weight the fact that I'm a glider pilot, so how do I adjust for that? It's obvious to me that my chances of dying in a glider are much much better than 1 in 5. So it is much much more likely that I will die of some other cause before I live long enough to die in a glider. Worrying about a glider accident is completely irrational (until I disregard the inherent dangers and start flying like an idiot.) Sure it could happen, but it is much more likely to die from something else. And as I get older, the odds of dying in a glider continue to drop. An article about the mortality calculator. http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-on-death.html The calculator http://eprognosis.ucsf.edu/ |
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