SAFA Skysailor Magazine

46 SKY SAILOR December-January-February | SUMMER 2025 Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics – AIRS stats for the 2023/24 financial year Greetings all. Time for a bit of a look at some numbers gleaned from AIRS. These numbers were pulled together at the beginning of November and cover the period from 01/07/2023 to 30/06/2024. When we look at these it is important to have an idea of the distribution of pilot qualifications held. Note that the number of qualifications held is greater than the number of members – some pilots are bi-wingual or even tri-wingual. Table 1: Pilot qualification distribution as at 04/11/2024 Qualification held Number of pilots % age of total quals held % of total membership (2577) HG Student HG Supervised 60 2.0 2.3 HG Intermediate 145 4.9 5.6 HG Advanced 256 8.7 9.9 PG 1 31 1.1 1.2 PG 2 387 13.2 15.0 PG 3 357 12.2 13.9 PG 4 556 18.9 21.6 PG 5 479 16.3 18.6 PPG Student PPG Foot Launch 401 13.7 15.6 PPG Foot Launch Endorsement 6 0.2 0.2 PPG Wheelbase 99 3.4 3.8 PPG Foot & Wheelbase 10 0.3 0.4 WM Student 7 0.2 0.3 WM Pilot 141 4.8 5.5 Total 2935 by Iain Clarke – SAFA Safety Management Officer