my understanding of shorthand is usually in lower case, Mike B. 3 capital letters looks remarkably like a registration mark, which it is. Perhaps the new modern web shorthand is different. Sorry for the confusion.
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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: Justin Sinclair Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 10:56 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW What's shorthand ? Justin Sinclair 17 Queen st Scarborough Qld 4020 Mob 0421061811 Hm 07 3885 8949 Sent from iPhone On 2 Feb 2017, at 10:07, Mike Borgelt <[email protected]> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ 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. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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