That was an hour or two after finding one that had been blown over out the back of a hangar a couple of years before. It was still on the register. A Kookaburra BTW.
Mike > On 1 Feb 2017, at 9:07 PM, Mike Borgelt <mborg...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > I've pushed a hangar door open and had pieces of a glider still on the > register fall out of the rafters > > Mike > >> On 1 Feb 2017, at 9:02 PM, Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org> wrote: >> >> Registration doesn’t expire, so an aircraft stays on the register even if >> it’s wrecked in a blown-over trailer in a corner of a gliding field that its >> deceased owner hasn’t visited for ten years. >> >> The real point of interest is the number of form-2 kits the GFA sells each >> year. >> >> Mandy Temple’s “Mande-news” on June 10 last year included an extract from >> the GFA’s Salesforce database, which said there were 738 gliders with a >> current form-2 as of that date. >> >> So - slightly over half of the total number of registered gliders are >> airworthy. >> >> The same extract said 2584 members flew GFA aircraft for 115,100 hours from >> 68,200 launches in 2015-16 (based on form-2 returns). That means every >> airworthy GFA aircraft averaged 156 hours and 92 launches, making the >> average GFA aircraft flight 102 minutes long. >> >> Not sure what to make of that. Must be some absolute bladder-buster long >> endurance flights to compensate for the thousands of 6 minute circuits all >> the winch clubs spend most of the winter flying. >> >> Also means the average GFA member logs about 45 hours per year. Once again, >> some pilots must be absolutely cranking out the hours to make up for the >> trainees who only log between 5 and 20 hours per year. >> >> The other weird numbers worth noting: GFA had issued 932 GPCs, and had 189 >> AEIs, 97 Level 1 instructors, 306 Level 2 instructors, and 97 Level 3 >> instructors. That’s 689 members with instructor ratings (out of 2584 total — >> over a quarter of GFA’s membership base), and each Level 3 having their very >> own personal Level 1 to train. >> >> Let me put it another way: There’s an instructor for every three >> non-instructor GFA members. >> >> The ratio is even stranger if you compare instructor headcount to GPC >> holders, and observe that 689 of those 932 GPCs are actually supposed to be >> instructors. >> >> I reckon GFA members get instructor ratings instead of Level-2 Independent >> Ops. If you want to fly club aircraft whenever you want without needing >> anyone’s permission, nearly 700 members have worked out that it’s easier to >> get an instructor rating than a Level 2 Independent Operator rating. Also >> easier to get a crew organized if you’re an instructor and you offer to run >> a day. >> >> That’s a perverse outcome, isn't it? I mean, in an ideal world, it wouldn’t >> be that way? >> >> - mark >> >> >> >>> On 1 Feb 2017, at 6:04 PM, steph...@internode.on.net wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: >>> "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." >>> @lists.base64.com.au> >>> >>> To: >>> "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." >>> Cc: >>> >>> Sent: >>> Wed, 1 Feb 2017 14:36:35 +1100 >>> 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? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> @johnroake.com>@lists.base64.com.au> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Aus-soaring mailing list >>> Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au >>> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au >> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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