You are some 2-3 km in the air. There’s nothing to hold on to. You are sitting on a piece of cloth that is barely large enough to accommodate you. No railings, no seatbelts, nothing to hold on to or stop you from falling to your death if the carpet gets into turbulences or a strong gust of wind makes you lose your balance. And let’s not forget that most depictions of magic carpet flights have the carpet move very erratically because they have a mind of their own.
“In case of an emergency, Exits are here, here, here, here, and here.”
– Walt Disney’s original Aladdin
“I’m not going to ride on a magic carpet! I’m afraid of grounds!”<br> “You mean heights, and stop being silly!”<br> “I know what I mean! It’s the grounds that kill you!”
– Terry Pratchet, “Sourcery”
It seems dangerous but how often do you hear about accidents?
That’s because they all get swept under the rug.
Sorry, but where did you get your information? Nobody is flying magic carpets above 300m.
Its magic, magic takes care of all of that
most depictions of magic carpet flights have the carpet move very erratically because they have a mind of their own
That might be a good thing. If you fall, the carpet will rush down to catch you
Feels like a good way to break your neck if you land on the carpet wrong…
All I can say to this is, it’s magic. So, you get to stay on if the carpet wants you to stay on.
That’s is, that’s your protection.
They typically don’t show the mounting pegs or explain where they fit. Maneuvers with a high “clench factor” end up being safer than they look.
The carpet is magic right? Maybe it creates a local gravity field like warp drives, so there is almost no internal acceleration. Or the magic makes you weightless.
In ‘Rise of Endymion’, the ‘Magic Carpet’ creates a kind of force field that keeps its occupants in, and the wind out. But you can still slam and splatter into lots of bits if you hit a rock wall. The force field isn’t that powerful.
Not to mention the whole thing is one big crumple zone
People think the future has arrived because we have aircraft that marketing departments are calling “flying cars”. However, when we have “magic carpets” that float around with mechanisms not based on aerodynamics or lift, that’s when the future will have arrived.
Carpet is sentient so he would dive after you if you fell off. He’s cool like that.
