SAFA Skysailor Magazine

52 SKY SAILOR December-January-February | SUMMER 2025 We would hope that you continued using the system to log your flights. Logging your flights is not only a good practice but it is also a requirement under the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (see CASR 61.345). Hours flown are also reported by members at renewal time. The Member- ship Year (MY) runs from 1 September through to 31 August. From these two sources we can collate some information. However, neither source is completely free from noise and cannot be completely relied upon to make very detailed assess- ments or base important decisions upon them. In the case of the Online Logbook system, not everyone uses it. In the case of the reported hours, these may in some cases be under- or over-estimated. The following table includes the data from FY and MY 22/23, and from this we can see that there is an increase in the number of members using the Online Logbook system, but still represents a smaller proportion of the total number of hours flown that are declared by the total membership. Table 20: Comparison of logbook versus reported annual flight hours Discipline Logbook records FY 23/24 Logbook records MY 23/24 Member renewals 2024 Logbook records FY 22/23 Logbook records MY 22/23 Member renewals 2023 # Members 1054 1026 2625 954 936 2392 # Logbook entries 23,952 23,128 20,897 21,406 HG hrs (min) 1640 (98,407) 1553 (93,159) 12,392 1398 (83,888) 1411 (84,661) 12,984 PG hrs (min) 21,125 (1,267,521) 20,426 (1,225,576) 73,979 17,044.6 (1,022,676) 17,726.7 (1,063,603) 64,287 PPG-F hrs (min) 1328 (79,651) 1342 (80,527) 10,711 1317 (79,046) 1164.8 (69,885) 12,853 PPG-W hrs (min) 138 (8285) 131 (7861) 174.7 (10,480) 179.5 (10,769) PHG hrs (min) 69 (4135) 43 (2556) 638 60 (3613) 58.8 (3527) 1016 WM hrs (min) 208 (12,474) 228 (13,671) 6860 451.9 (27,112) 303 (18,194) 7288 That’s it for now. Fly safe in 2025. Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics