Wonder no more...
http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD:571830746:pc=PC_92609
Although they don't show the number who "walked away" directly, if you
take a particular (financial?) year, add the issued licenses and compare
to the number of licenses shown for the next year you get:
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08
Type of licence
Air Transport -298 -411 -176 -150
Commercial -603 -1178 -1013 -745
Private -1826 -844 -5233 -1686
Student GFPT -1743 -2221 -2249 -1218
Subtotal -4470 -4654 -8671 -3799
Hope the table format works! :-)
This isn't perfect, is the ATPL a subset of commercials, same license
holder? do the disappeared students end up as private (this would make
the numbers of disappeared students lower but higher licenses worse)?
etc However very roughly it looks like:
(For aeroplanes only) about 4000* a year walk away. About 1500 private,
slightly more student and slightly less commercial/ATPL
*Except an unusually big chunk of private pilots walked away in 06/07.
This is out of a total of 25-30thousand (decreasing over the period in
question) license holders. So grosser in pure numbers than gliding but
not as bad percentage wise.
But the dynamics are similar to GFA. Approximately the same number join
as leave and the overall numbers stay constantish (just fading away bit
by bit).
Regards
SWK
Derek Ruddock wrote:
I wonder how many people sample power flying a year and never come back.
I suspect it's far higher than 1000...
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt
Sent: Tuesday, 24 August 2010 7:53 PM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] L-13 etc
<snip>
As for gliding having it so wrong, ask the 1000 a year turnover
people. Just the size of that number tells you there is something
wrong. There seems to be a general recognition that something is
wrong but gliding people seem to want the rest of the world to change
its thinking instead of changing gliding.
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