{"id":44676,"date":"2025-01-24T08:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T08:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/aerospace\/is-flying-as-easy-as-driving\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T08:42:37","slug":"is-flying-as-easy-as-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=44676","title":{"rendered":"is flying as easy as driving?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Air travel is among the safest forms of transportation, but the idea of flying with the same ease as driving a car seems like a fantasy even for experienced pilots.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fatal airliner accidents have decreased consistently over the past 50 years, based on data collected by the Aviation Safety Network<\/a>. Currently, there is roughly one fatality for every two million flights. This indicates that, on average, a fatal aviation accident happens only after more than 2 million flights.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Flying an airplane is statistically considered safer than driving. However, data from the National Travel and Safety Board (NTSB) shows that private airplanes are far more dangerous by an order of magnitude.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For large commercial airliners, there are fewer than 0.01 fatalities for every 100,000 hours of flight. In contrast, private airplanes have over 2.3 fatalities per 100,000 hours. This means that a person is 200 times more likely to die in a private airplane than in a commercial airliner.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But what if flying a small aircraft could be safer than the current numbers suggest? This is a question posed by Nikita Ermoshkin, the founder and CEO of Airhart, a Los Angeles-based company dedicated to creating \u201cthe easiest-to-fly and safest airplane ever engineered.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ermoshkin, an aerospace engineer with a resume that includes a professional career at SpaceX, did not grow up dreaming of ways to simplify flight. But when he began flying almost five years ago, he noticed that general aviation aircraft seemed old-fashioned and outdated. Wanting to fix this issue, Ermoshkin left SpaceX and founded Airhart Aeronautics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n