Oh fer chrissakes ! BTW is web shorthand for "by the way"
The Kookaburra IIRC ( if I remember correctly ) was VH-GHS blown over and then de rigged and stored in the open a year or more ago when I saw it. This would have been in the 1980s and the reason I was interested is that I was getting a new glider and GFA couldn't be bothered getting any decent non awkward regos from CASA. Another fine example of GFA "service". The next glider I put on the register, I went to the CASA register people who very helpfully faxed me all the available ones and told me to choose one I liked and they would assign it to the GFA which I did and they did. Mike > On 2 Feb 2017, at 7:46 AM, Peter Brookman <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW > > Manufacturer: > PIPER AIRCRAFT CORP > Model: > PA-34-200 > Serial number: > 34-7450107 > Engine type: > Piston > No of engines: > 2 > Aircraft first registered in Australia: > 3 June 1974 > Year of manufacture: > 1974 > Registration holder: > TISDALL BTW PTY LTD U 2 224 Qantas Ave ARCHERFIELD QLD 4108 Australia > Registration holder commencement date: > 9 May 2016 > Registered operator: > FLIGHT ONE (SERVICES) PTY LTD 224 Qantas Ave ARCHERFIELD QLD 4108 Australia > Registered operator commencement date: > 9 May 2016 > > From: Mike Borgelt > Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 11:39 PM > To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] 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 >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Aus-soaring mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > > www.avast.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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