Airshows shouldn't exist

Seggy said:
Oh it is completely ridiculous! Don't hate the player, hate the game! The NCAA should be paying for the scholarships, not the taxpayers.
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NCAA football is broken. Every program cheats. They come up with these ridiculous sanctions against schools. Coaches are usually some of the highest paid public employees in their states and if a player gets a tattoo for a signed jersey the whole team gets penalized.
 
mikecweb said:
Dude there are significant issues with everything if you look hard enough. This was simply an accident. There will be an investigation, things will be learned and hopefully changes made to prevent it. More people have died in the past hour from texting and driving than in this air show crash...
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Did you read @MikeD post? Pretty much said the same thing I said.

But he said that so it will be ignored. Gotcha.
 
Seggy said:
Oh it is completely ridiculous! Don't hate the player, hate the game! The NCAA should be paying for the scholarships, not the taxpayers.
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No hate. If I'm not wrong though your education was paid for with your blood, sweat and tears on the backs of your classmates. That's how it was at the time and I don't disagree with your vision of how it should be and I don't fault you for it one bit. I played a violent contact sport too in college and ostensibly for my school, but because I didn't attend college in Canada I received none of the sweet, sweet, ancillary benefits our football players did. Railing against perceived unsafe activities and their cost while blithely accepting the best that comes your way paid by others seems a touch hypocritical.
 
Seggy said:
@PositionAndHold

How many airshows would you say there are in the United States per year?
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From the link I provided.

"The International Council of Air Shows estimates there are 300 to 325 air shows in the U.S. a year, attended by crowds of 2,000 to 200,000. Chicago's, of course, is larger, drawing an average crowd of 1.7 million, according to the city."

Those numbers are per air show. Not total crowds of all air shows.
 
genot said:
Railing against perceived unsafe activities and their cost while blithely accepting the best that comes your way paid by others seems a touch hypocritical.
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You haven't seen my 'rails' against the NCAA. Do I blame the military on going to air shows? No. Do I like it? No. Nothing hypocritical.
 
Seggy said:
So figure 300 shows per year with about a 2% chance of seeing an accident with averaging around 7 accidents per year. Some may view that as to high of a risk.
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Dude. Here are the stats on eating from the national safety council.
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#19: Choking on food
Odds of dying: 1 in 4,404
You should be more worried about the food you eat than having an irrational fear, like dying in a terrorist attack. The truth is that only 1 in 25 million people will be killed in a terrorist attack aboard a commercial airliner, yet 1 in 4,404 people will die via asphyxiation from choking on food, so you are better off being afraid of your brunch.

http://www.medhelp.org/general-health/articles/The-25-Most-Common-Causes-of-Death/193

Or how about drowning or medical care. Maybe we should ban water and surgery. We really have turned into a society afraid of our own shadows just because we saw some tragic footage on the news.

#13: Accidental drowning and submersion
Odds of dying: 1 in 1,073
In the U.S., there were 3,443 fatal unintentional drownings in 2007. Males were 3.7 times more likely to die from drowning than females, because they are more likely to engage in reckless behavior. Children under the age of 14 accounted for one-fifth of these deaths from drowning.

#15: Complications of medical and surgical care
Odds of dying: 1 in 1,523
According to the National Hospital Discharge Survey, 45 million surgeries were performed in 2007, so it's a good thing that only 1 in 1,523 people will die from medical or surgical complications. You are more than twice as likely to die from complications of medical and surgical care than in an ATV or off-road vehicle accident; the largest gap in odds on this list.
 
Once again, is that type of death captured on video for the 24 hours news cycle in a dramatic manner?
 
Seggy said:
Once again, is that type of death captured on video for the 24 hours news cycle in a dramatic manner?
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It will be. There more first responders that are outfitted with body cams the more you will see them pulling a two year old lifeless out of a pool. We already see more videos of shootings and rescues then we ever did before.

Just because we see the tragedy doesn't mean we stop using our heads. We think about what happened, the actual facts and statistics behind it. Or we continue to rule by knee jerk reactions. I know which one I choose.
 
PositionAndHold said:
Just because we see the tragedy doesn't mean we stop using our heads. We think about what happened, the actual facts and statistics behind it. Or we continue to rule by knee jerk reactions. I know which one I choose.
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Ok, so now, you want to talk about using your head? Then why are you opposed to 3rd class medicals for general aviation pilots? Do you really think it will be smart to even try to pass a regulation like that? Or just allowing a knee jerk reaction (as AOPA wants it) to get in the way of common sense.
 
Seggy said:
Once again, is that type of death captured on video for the 24 hours news cycle in a dramatic manner?
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Why should I care?

The less emphasis we can place on how spectacular or widely recorded a particular demise might be... the sooner we can get back to managing risks and threats using actual cognitive reasoning, rather than "OMG that was a big fireball! Quick! Ban whatever that dude was doing!"
 
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