Oh! The US would seem to be half our
pilot/population ratio.
Thought the US was closer to 200M though than 300M
which was a surprise to me.
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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.
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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
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11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] World
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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
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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
For a more
recent report (to 2004) with revised US numbers see http://www.fai.org/gliding/membership
Cheers,
Patrick
Barfield
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