On 2/02/2017 9:43 AM, [email protected] wrote:
That is so James. It is why I said the register numbers are somewhat
moot.
I'll add, I think there are probably more private owners flying than
360, because I don't believe all club aircraft are flying either (Back
in the day when I was CFI of a small club, we had 2 two seaters which
we would alternate for various reasons).
Also for smaller/winch clubs, would be surprised if their gliders did
more than some 10s of hours a year either (our club singles used to do
30-50 and our two seaters around 70, and that was a fairly consistent
one day a week operation).
I think you'll find that the bigger clubs greatly drag up the average up
for the winch clubs here. SCGC as my example, has 4 twins, and 4 singles
(we just bought another single, but only in the club for 5 weeks, so
won't count it yet). Three of the twins are doing 300+ hrs a year. The
other about 50. The singles average 120hrs each a year. Our highest use
single is 150hrs last year. I'd imagine that the keepit & narromine
fleets would be doing similar numbers.
But in any case the "limbo pool" of inactive aircraft (I just had a
look this morning) is large and must contain some comparatively modern
types. That is a big problem.
At Camden, not including the clubs, I know of
- 3 gliders sitting in trailers that haven't had form 2s in a long time.
- One wreck, where the rego was returned
- Two wrecks that are about to be written off, but still registered
- One wreck in the process of being rebuilt
- 4 flying gliders in trailers, 2 that I know are regularly flown
- approx 15 T hangars with gliders in them, mostly active pilots.
Being a city-based club, I expect our limbo pool is quite small since
the owners are all nearby. My guess is the the in-limbo aircraft are
split between sitting in museums, and wrecks that are waiting to be
rebuilt and the rego was kept in order to make the test flying part much
easier.
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