Twin-engine planes or single tanks, which is better?

[Garrobo]

It's cheaper and safer to just take a commercial flight.

 

[RJP]

It's cheaper and safer to just take a commercial flight.

Talking to divers about "cheaper" and "safer" as if that would be a deciding factor on ANYTHING!?!?



Crochet is "cheaper and safer" than diving!

 

[Nemrod]

It's cheaper and safer to just take a commercial flight.

Yes, but people who fly small airplanes largely do so because they love it and so finally we come to something that relates to diving. Yes, one could take a commerical flight but as well, one could stay their rear ends on dry land. In either case the reason for doing the activity (flying or diving) is the activity itself and if safety is gained by not doing the activity then all you have done is cheat yourself of the activity, of living the experiance.

We all die, might as well die in an airplane or 150 feet down with a scuba tank strapped on. You will still be dead and be it now or in thrity years, it means nothing in the larger scheme. Dinosaurs ruled the earth for 125 million years and they are but dust as you will be very shortly, go for the gusto, safety is way overrated.

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[bfw]

Neither nor.
The scuba tanks are fuel tanks, the regulators are fuel pumps and the diver himself is both pilot and engine.Now, how and where does a set of doubles fit in, and how does it compare to a pony?

A pony is a reserve fuel tank, similar to that on most motorcycles.

A better way to look at this is that different dives/flights have different requirements.
The FAA won't let you cross the ocean without two engines AND two pilots.

 

[bfw]

It's cheaper and safer to just take a commercial flight.

That would be skipping diving and going for a ride on the glass bottom boat.

 

[Nemrod]

A pony is a reserve fuel tank, similar to that on most motorcycles.

A better way to look at this is that different dives/flights have different requirements.
The FAA won't let you cross the ocean without two engines AND two pilots.

Actually they will. A form 337 installs an aux tank, many single engine aircraft are ferried across the Atlantic.

Good thing nobody told Charles Lindberg he could not cross the Atlantic solo in a single engine airplane.

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