SAFA Skysailor Magazine

50 SKY SAILOR December-January-February | SUMMER 2025 Table 13: AIRS reports, by site type with injury – past 5 years Site type FY 2023 /24 FY 2022 /23 FY 2021 /22 FY 2020 /21 FY 2019 /20 Total Coastal 23 19 28 28 26 124 Grass strip 1 3 3 3 3 13 Inland 27 25 33 37 33 155 Sealed runway 1 1 Tow 2 4 2 2 10 Not recorded 2 1 3 2 8 Total 53 53 66 73 66 311 Now for the view by qualification. You’d be forgiven for thinking that we should see more reports from pilots with lower ratings than those with higher ratings, due to less experience. The data does not support this though. Note that the totals do not agree with what we have seen so far, as pilots move through the ratings during the year, and they can also hold ratings for more than one discipline. Table 14: AIRS reports, by qualification – past 5 years Qualification FY 2023 /24 FY 2022 /23 FY 2021 /22 FY 2020 /21 FY 2019 /20 Total PG 1 12 16 15 6 9 58 PG 2 23 16 41 39 20 139 PG 3 25 19 19 24 16 103 PG 4 19 12 28 54 36 149 PG 5 22 18 24 22 27 113 HG Student 3 1 4 HG Supervised 1 3 5 3 12 HG Intermediate 4 2 4 4 6 20 HG Advanced 7 7 10 10 12 46 PPG Foot Launch 6 8 6 23 16 59 PPG Wheelbase 1 3 3 3 10 WM Student 1 1 WM Pilot 2 3 2 5 5 17 Total 122 105 152 198 154 731 Table 15: AIRS reports, by qualification with injury – past 5 years Qualification FY 2023 /24 FY 2022 /23 FY 2021 /22 FY 2020 /21 FY 2019 /20 Total PG 1 8 6 10 4 3 31 PG 2 7 9 13 16 11 56 PG 3 13 12 7 12 7 51 PG 4 8 5 13 13 14 53 PG 5 7 10 11 10 15 53 HG Student 3 3 HG Supervised 1 2 1 2 6 HG Intermediate 3 2 5 10 HG Advanced 2 4 4 7 6 23 PPG Foot Launch 2 5 3 12 8 30 PPG Wheelbase 3 1 1 5 WM Student 1 1 WM Pilot 1 1 1 3 3 9 Total 50 54 68 84 75 331 Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics