rgmwa Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Some interesting records published by the FAA. For those who like numbers, there's just about every statistic you could think of. The trends are probably similar over here. http://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation_data_statistics/civil_airmen_statistics/2012/ rgmwa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nobody Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Interesting numbers. I think that australia would be similar in some ways and different in others. One way it would be different is that in the USA by hose numbers 50% of pilots hold an ifr rating which I think would be much higher than australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgmwa Posted February 8, 2014 Author Share Posted February 8, 2014 One way it would be different is that in the USA by those numbers 50% of pilots hold an ifr rating which I think would be much higher than australia. That's true. I think relatively few Australian private pilots have an IFR rating. Maybe because our weather is less extreme on the whole, there's less need for it. The high cost of training and maintaining currency, and also of equipping an aircraft for IFR, are probably factors too. rgmwa (... also building an RV12) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Gnu Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Very true nobody. One of my American friends couldn't understand how you could be a pilot and not IFR rated, it just didn't compute for him. Big difference in weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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