From the aircraft register of 2013
1220 gliders and motor gliders
950 privately owned
270 owned by clubs/cadets/societies etc.
last year
1276 gliders and motor gliders (+4.6%, 56 actual)
981 privately owned (+3.3%, 31 actual)
295 owned by clubs/cadets/societies etc. (+9.3%, 25 actual)
Only about 3 years difference, I'd be reluctant to say too much about
trends, have to go back and dig up a really old one. But private
ownership (in absolute terms) increasing more than club ownership (and
as others will point out, only about half of the gliders in Australia
are given an annual in any one year, so it all may be moot anyway).
gliders on the register newer than 3 years old in 2016 - (64 total)
36 private
28 club
Of those 64 new gliders 18 "pure" (mostly DG1000s, and 10 of them air
cadets), 46 with some sort of motor. That's a clue to the future right
there.
For pilot flying times, much more difficult to get a handle on.
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Subject:Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW
to put a different spin on it, how about asking some different
questions
1) how many gliders are there now?
2) how many are privately owned (percentage change)?
3) have the annual flown hours per pilot gone up or down?
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