View Full Version : Commercial Pilot Trends UK vs US
Wikipedia suggests that the number of US Commercial Pilots has shrunk from 438,000 in 1980 to 325,000 at the end of 2008.
No similar info on the equivalent UK section...ideas anyone?
Thanks in advance.
Superpilot
23rd Apr 2011, 09:58
I'm sure you mean private too. Has a very plausible explanation...........price of oil (and not enough imperialist oil wars to keep the price down!). Also marked by the demise of the private piston twin experienced during the 80s. Cessna manufacturers not a single twin piston today.
ZimmerFly
23rd Apr 2011, 10:04
Just have to know where to look :8
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/175/UK%20CAA%20Flight%20Crew%20Licnece%20Age%20Profile%20as%20at %201%20January%202008v2.pdf
And then try to make sense of the tables...:confused:
Statistics - Licence By Age and Sex - between 2000 / 2008 | Personnel Licensing | Safety Regulation (http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=175&pagetype=90&pageid=11765)