Good figures, but they don't show the people who try flying, and decide that it's not attractive/too expensive/ a waste of time or that the aerofoil sections are old fashioned ;)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of stephenk Sent: Wednesday, 25 August 2010 1:52 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] L-13 etc 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]> [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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