US Pilot Statistics

[rgmwa]

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

 

 

[Guest Nobody]

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.

 

 

[rgmwa]

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)

 

 

[Gnarly Gnu]

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.