SAFA Skysailor Magazine

48 SKY SAILOR December-January-February | SUMMER 2025 Injuries and fatalities are the more un- fortunate consequences in our sport when things go wrong. Table 6: AIRS reports, injuries – past 5 years State FY 2023 /24 FY 2022 /23 FY 2021 /22 FY 2020 /21 FY 2019 /20 Total O/S or not reported 1 2 3 ACT 1 1 1 3 6 NSW 18 15 14 19 14 80 SA & NT 2 1 3 2 1 9 QLD/N 1 3 1 2 7 QLD/S 6 6 12 20 15 59 TAS 6 4 8 5 4 27 VIC 16 22 23 20 20 101 WA 2 4 3 5 5 19 Total 53 53 66 73 66 311 Table 7: AIRS reports, fatalities – past 5 years State FY 2023 /24 FY 2022 /23 FY 2021 /22 FY 2020 /21 FY 2019 /20 Total O/S or not reported 1 1 ACT NSW 1 4* 5* SA & NT QLD/N QLD/S 1 1 TAS VIC 2•• 1 3 WA 2* 2* Total 3 0 0 4 5 12 * +1 passenger ** Includes one unqualified, unauthorised, non-member flying an unregistered aircraft. We’ll look now at the reports from the perspective of type of flight. Table 8: AIRS reports, by type of flight – past 5 years Flight type FY 2023 /24 FY 2022 /23 FY 2021 /22 FY 2020 /21 FY 2019 /20 Total Not recorded 1 2 6 6 2 17 Competition 6 4 3 6 3 22 Recreational flying 94 74 119 155 120 562 Under instruction 19 20 21 18 15 93 Total 120 100 149 185 140 694 Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics