I don't believe that such an aviation hostile country as the UK has 30,000 pilots with a license that is in force
http://www.gliding.co.uk/bgainfo/BGA...onse1-11v2.pdf
Annex A. UK Pilots
The following table lists the estimated number of UK pilots.
Flight engineers and navigators are excluded.
Licence Holders with Valid Medical Certificates at 1st January 2008
In the UK, 43 000 pilots out of a total of 62 000 are private pilots.
Professional Licences
JAR ATPL 7,522
UK ATPL 4,886
JAR CPL 3,989
UK CPL 659
BCPL 196
JAR ATPL H 518
UK ATPL H 657
JAR CPL H 640
UK CPL HG 45
UK CPL AS 3
UK CPL B 170
Professional 19,285
Private Licences
JAA PPL A 9,003
UK PPL A 10,576
NPPL A 548
UK PPL M 33
UK PPL SLMG 19
JAR PPL H 1,572
UK PPL H 1,048
UK PPL B 66
UK PPL G 39
NPPL (Microlight) with
declaration. (BMAA data.)
3,000
SLMG and SSEA NPPLs
6
(LAA data.)
3,695
Glider pilots. (BGA data.) 8,000
Hang Gliding &
Paragliding. (BHPA data.)
6,000
Less those included twice - 548
Total private 43,051
Total UK Pilots 62,336
So it looks like about 0.1% of people in the UK are actually pilots.
