From: "Geoff Kidd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Good stuff.
Can you add the % increase/decrease, for each country, in your
spreadsheet, based on the comparison of the 93 - 04 figures .......... to
see what the various trends are?
I guess he can - but to what purpose?
I really don't care whether gliding in Australia is growing, shrinking or
tying itself in knots. I would like MY OWN CLUB to continue in existence
and it seems to be doing that very nicely, with relatively stable numbers -
perhaps slightly increasing. I've introduced a few friends to gliding and
every now and then other members do and the club chugs along nicely.
I don't care if gliding becomes more popular. It appears it was much more
popular in the late 70s but since it has shrunk from then, that popularity
clearly didn't translate into a better gliding experience for many of the
members - because they left.
It seems to me that if we all try to make sure that our own club stays a
happy, solvent organisation which provides as far as possible an affordable
and enjoyable gliding life for those who wish to be part of it, then that is
the best we can do. Growth will then take care of itself. By which I mean
- it will happen if that is what makes people enjoy gliding more. And if
not, it won't.
The only thing I can do about the state of world gliding is to help keep my
own club viable. That's all you can do too. The rest is gum-beating.
Graeme Cant
Geoff
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Creswick
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] World gliding numbers
Juggled those numbers a bit in Excel, and resorted into order of number
of people in population per glider pilot.
Results are interesting.
The ANOMALY, is the USA, but remember that in USA glider pilots are
mostly power pilots first, with glider ratings, whereas in most other
countries, glider pilots are basically a separate pilot community.
----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Mc Donnell
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] World gliding numbers
The number of glider pilots in the US would seem to be roughly the
same proportion to the total population as it is in Australia and
decreasing at the same rate.
Similarities of cause perhaps?
Chris McDonnell
----- Original Message -----
From: Geoff Kidd
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] World gliding numbers
SWK
Thanks for those figures ........ and also to PB
While the figures for OZ are 1993 3510 & 2004 2637 ........... a
decrease here of about 25% (or 882 pilots in gross terms) when calculated
on the same basis.
Regards GWK
----- Original Message -----
From: Kittel, Stephen W (ETSA)
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:06 AM
Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] World gliding numbers
Ta for that Patrick.
I was pretty sure John had done a report for later years (and
still continues) but I couldn't find it before.
To correct the numbers in my previous email :
The US numbers have been substantially reduced from the original
2003 estimates, however, these (more justifiable?) numbers still show:
1993 23557
2004 20980
A decrease of about 11% (or 2577 pilots in gross terms).
So compared to John's first estimate, there appear to be less
glider pilots in the US to start with and a bigger loss of pilots (both
gross numbers and %wise) over the sample period than was originally
thought.
Regards
SWK
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick
Barfield
Sent: Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:10 PM
To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.'
Subject: [Aus-soaring] World gliding numbers
For a more recent report (to 2004) with revised US numbers see
http://www.fai.org/gliding/membership
Cheers,
Patrick Barfield
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kittel,
Stephen W (ETSA)
Sent: Tuesday, 13 December 2005 3:46 AM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] The Future of Gliding Part 2
.
http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/Data/world-membership.pdf
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