03-08-2018, 06:36 AM
Mr. Carmody stated to the Committee that there were 30,000 pilots and 800 operators.
A few years ago Paul Phelan extricated from the CASA website the numbers of current medicals. Contrary to a CASA claim at that time of 40,000 pilots there were only 18,000 with current medicals.
Many years ago pilot licences were declared to be valid in perpetuity, but the exercise of the rights conferred dependent on having a current medical and within recency requirements. Mr. Carmody’s 30,000 is virtually meaningless and it maybe that active pilots are considerably less, perhaps 15,000, not counting certificate holders in the low weight category. It would be also interesting to know what is the mechanism to delete from the records licence holders who have died, if such accounting does occur.
In regard to operator numbers, 800, nice round number, I would like to see the list.
A few years ago Paul Phelan extricated from the CASA website the numbers of current medicals. Contrary to a CASA claim at that time of 40,000 pilots there were only 18,000 with current medicals.
Many years ago pilot licences were declared to be valid in perpetuity, but the exercise of the rights conferred dependent on having a current medical and within recency requirements. Mr. Carmody’s 30,000 is virtually meaningless and it maybe that active pilots are considerably less, perhaps 15,000, not counting certificate holders in the low weight category. It would be also interesting to know what is the mechanism to delete from the records licence holders who have died, if such accounting does occur.
In regard to operator numbers, 800, nice round number, I would like to see the list.