National Pilot Licensing Statistics

[rollie rotors]

Ran into some interesting stats from Transport Canada regarding helicopter licenses in force within Canada.

Private 476
Commercial 2825
ATP 790
_______
Grand Total 4091

I'm interested to know numbers of rotorheads in your country under these three licensing categories.

[paco]

There are also less than 500 instrument rated helicopter pilots, and a high proportion of those work for Transport Canada

Phil

[Av8r]

In the land downunder:

Helicopter:

ATPL 429
Commercial 903 (Includes ATPL holders?)
Pvt 376
Student 41


Total 1776


% Commercial / ATPL in full time employment? 50% ?? Less??

[Aesir]

ATPL... 6
CPL.... 16
PPL..... 9

Ratio of employed pilots is about 60%!

Country population is 280.000

[IHL]

Aesir:
That's remarkable.
You must know them ALL .

[Martin1234]

Statistics from Sweden;

Certificates as of 31/12 1999:

Private: 211
Commercial: 313
ATPL: 25
Total: 549

Number of helicopters registered as of 31/10 1999:

Piston: 59 MTOM 622 - 2200 kg
Single turbine: 95 MTOM 1155 - 4310 kg
Twin turbine: 14 MTOM 2400 - 5670 kg
TOTAL: 168

Source:
(Swedish CAA)http://www.lfv.se/upload/LoS/rapporter/helikopter.pdf

[Heli-Ice]

Well you know its a small country, as an example Aesir taught me the art of flying.

A little trick for you guys, I know the names of all the heli pilots in my country, do you?

Av8r

I like your math skills, your'e almost better at it than I am :D I got 1749 heads from your stats.

Last year I think it was that I got the information about at least 900 helicopters registered in Australia and with only 50% of the pilots employed there should be some jobs available down there :hmm:

[Spunk]

Good morning ladies and gents,

Germany has a population of @ 82.000.000.

Certificates as of 31.12.2003:

CPL(H) = 668
ATPL(H) = 410

(source Luftfahrt Bundesamt (http://www.lba.de) )

Help... I'm an endangered species :D

The number of PPL(H) is kind of hard to figure out cause those numbers are run by the various local aviation authorities.

What really amazes me is the small amount of helicopter pilots in Australia. It's such a big country, isn't it?

[DanRS]

Interesting numbers.

Anyone got any idea what the figures are for the UK?

Cheers Dan

[rollie rotors]

Well....... my fellow rotorheads, presently we have stats for Canada, Iceland, Australia, Germany, and Sweden.

Appears the rest of ya are either bad with numbers.....or the rotary world remains undiscovered in your neck of the woods.

Please contact the five enlisted countries for a demonstration.

:ouch:

[Rotorbike]

UK licencing statistics at 31st March 2000

ATPL(H) 1471 (11 women!!)

CPL(H) 144 (8 women)

CAA statistics (http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/175/srg_fcl_Age2000StatsProfessional.PDF)

Crazy that the CAA can't produce more up to date statistics!!!

And remember that UK CAA ATPL's could be VFR only.

:O

[tecpilot]

Statistics seems to be like a Wonderbra, the basics are cryptic.

For germany as example, the numbers couldn't be compared with other countries. More than 300 licensies (ATPL&CPL) are occupied by the German Border Guard, paramilitary units. All of their helicopters are civil registered and the pilots need the civil license. Also a greater number are the military pilots who holds a civil license without civil type rating (like a frozen CPL/ATPL). That's possible in germany. Additionally we have the police units in each german country. Also more than 100 pilots, who don't work in the civil business.
Altogether i assume that Germany have not more than 600 really civil activ professional pilots. And from this pilots more than 250 work for the big EMS operators ADAC and DRF and some smaller operators on one of the more than 80 EMS bases.

[Spunk]

Thanks Tecpilot,

when I first wrote down the LBA numbers I was thinking about putting that info in there, but then again I was too lazy.:D

To sum up, does that mean that the specie of helicopter pilots in Germany is even more endangered??? :D

[skidbiter123]

And from New Zealand...

ATPL(H) 92 of which only 39 still hold a class 1 medical

CPL(H) 1275 of which only 564 hold a class 1 medical

PPL(H) 878 of which only 340 still hold a class 2 medical.

Thats a lot of pilots for a small country! Pop around 4 million.

[Phoinix]

Slovenia...

ATPL(H) 4
CPL(H) 64
PPL(H) 16

Population around 2 million.

Almost extinct :{

Well, i hope i'll raise a number soon :ok:

[Winnie]

What about the instructors in Canada, anybody have any ideas where to search?

Classes 4 through 1 etc.:rolleyes:

Since I am daft and slow, I might as well post what I foud after 2 minutes of searching...

Helicopter Instructors: Class 1: 95, Class 2: 21, Class 3: 36, class 4: 25for a total of 177 Helicopter instructors in Canada.

How about this one, how many schools are there in Canada?

(to the pedantic amongst us, I mean Helicopter Flight Training Units):ok:

[Giovanni Cento Nove]

The Kiwi stats:

If you forget the private guys and take the valid Commercial and ATP's who should have a class 1 = 601 pilots who may be not all be employed.

The site states there are 562 helicopters on the register.

So statistcally in New Zealand and following nature, helicopters in New Zealand must be like ar$holes, one for each pilot!!!!!!! And vice versa is not entirely the case.........

And in a country of only 4 million odd they are treated as pretty ho hum. Remember landing in a pub car park on the West Coast of the South Island and it did not distract anyone from their beer!!! Maybe that's the problem.

Mind you that was before they got electricity.

[rollie rotors]

Winnie, there are 33 heli flight training schools in Canada. (as published in the April/May/June edition of Helicopter Magazine.

Broken down to provinces: Alberta 5, B.C. 11, Manitoba 1, New Brunswick 1, Newfie 1, Ontario 10, and Quebec 4.

RR

[Djay]

Statistics from Denmark

CPL(H): 66
ATPL(H): 41
IR(H): 15 SE / 64 ME

There are 56 OY-registered helicopters (incl. Faroe Islands and Greenland).
23 of these must be regarded as for GA use:

1 B47
3 S269
9 R22
9 R44
1 Exec 90

That gives us 33 commercial helicopters.
EMS and Law Enforcement is done be the military.

Facts:
Denmark: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/da.html
Greenland: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gl.html
Faroe Islands: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/fo.html

Source: http://www.helikopterpilot.dk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=730

[XT244]

279 civil Helicopters current registered in the Switzerland on 41293 squarekilometers only. :ok:
Infos for Licence are n/a :confused:

[NickLappos]

United States FAA stats (current active helicopter pilots, estimated as percentage of certificate holders):

Total: 22,933

Private helicopter: 4,306
Commercial: 18,600
ATP: 2,887
Instrument (included in above): 8,984
Helicopter only (included in above): 7,800

Total active helicopters: 6750
Piston: 2550
Turbine: 4200

[ShyTorque]

Looking at these fairly sparse numbers, ain't it nice to realise just how special we all are..... :D

[SASless]

Now how about this question....

How many of us hold multiple ATP's....

I have three....US, UK, and Nigeria also a list of commerical licenses.

How does that skew the numbers?

[Bomber ARIS]

I have FIVE!! :8

[John Eacott]

Bomber,

See your five, raise you one. Six :D

(Mind you, the Nigerian one is of limited bragging rights........:rolleyes: )

[Bomber ARIS]

John,

Wheras having FIVE is eminently sensible, surely SIX ATPLs is just showing off? :ok:

[John Eacott]

Bomber,

Do you think I should trade a couple in, and get an FAA one instead ;) :p

[Spunk]

With all those licences, how do you manage to get all those required check flights (e.g. annual check, company check, line check etc.) done?:D

[Bomber ARIS]

One trick is to find a doctor who is able to give Class I medicals for more than one state (although I've never done better than 3 for the price of one)