well, when i membership sec of Southern Cross more than 1/3 of members had instructor ratings. mind you only a fraction of that were active. many were over 70 years old, i dont remember but maybe half?
what percentage of australian members are over 75 now? is there a population age cliff we are fall off? > On 2 Feb 2017, at 12:02 AM, Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org> 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, steph...@internode.on.net 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 >> Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au >> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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