Pilot numbers

[Jim Logajan]

Based on the geriatric condition of most of the pilots I meet I'd say our numbers could decline way more than 50% in a big hurry.

 

[Threefingeredjack]

WOW I'm one of 11,992 in the US. Can't wait to tell the wife how special I am.

 

[jesse]

I'm 1 of 4326

 

[Threefingeredjack]

I'm 1 of 4326

NICE!! But then you probably had to earn yours. They just gave me mine.

 

[RotorAndWing]

Are these only with current medical? Cuz I thought a license was for life, so not sure how we could drop by 50% unless we all die. Also, how does the FAA take into account dead people? Do they even know that you die?

Right now there is no reporting to the FAA when someone dies, so the database does not update.

 

[Henning]

Right now there is no reporting to the FAA when someone dies, so the database does not update.

Is there anyway to look up by class and current medical?

 

[kimberlyanne546]

Is there anyway to look up by class and current medical?

Who are you trying to find now?

 

[skidoo]

WOW I'm one of 11,992 in the US. Can't wait to tell the wife how special I am.

I'll bet that you feel even better out it than being one out of the 1593...

 

[denverpilot]

I'm amazed that there's one CFI to every two Private Pilots.

 

[RotorAndWing]

Is there anyway to look up by class and current medical?

Not on the public website.

 

[steingar]

Thanks for posting that chart Jim. Of all of us, I should be the most knowledgable about sampling errors.

 

[nddons]

Only 204,788 Private Pilots in the U.S.? That is really, really sad.

Ironically,approximately 200,000 of those somehow appear in the same traffic pattern as me at the same time on the first warm and sunny spring Saturday morning in the upper midwest.