Today, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and the International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations (IAOPA), launched the 2021 European General Aviation Survey. The annual survey will contribute to a better understanding of the trends in general aviation flight activity and aircraft equipment, and fleet composition trends to support safety analysis in Europe.
The survey is now open and will close on 30th April. To access the 2021 survey please CLICK HERE
To access the official press release and the 2020 Survey results CLICK HERE
For additional information, please contact Cate Brancart, Manager, European Safety and Operations, GAMA, [email protected] or Dr. Michael Erb, Senior Vice President – Europe, IAOPA, [email protected].
Many flights everyone !
I’ve done it, for 2 aircraft. I had to stop and check records several times to get required information – % A to A v A to B.
We appeal to all EuroGA members to support this survey and help spread the word. The results give us the essential data we need to highlight to governments and regulators the challenges our sector is facing, in particular the impact of the pandemic on flight hours.
The good news is that over the first 5 days of the survey we have received over 500 responses already, covering over 750 aircraft in 20 countries (see map attached) – but this is only a fraction of the European GA fleet so please share, promote and respond to the survey.
Thanks to all who have already participated!
Well, as always, never trust any statistics which you haven’t drawn up yourself…
For example, how is this even possible, with all the low end GA we have in Europe?
Well, I guess the answer is here; the sample is way too tiny to be of much use:
And the low end of GA seems to be mostly missing:
And, whilst Germany is definitely the epicentre of GA in Europe, this is likely not a very representative picture either:
boscomantico wrote:
Well, I guess the answer is here; the sample is way too tiny to be of much use:
Not only that but it is likely not representative. It is unfortunate, but given the poor answer rate, I surprised that AOPA even bother to publish the results.
How come there are twice more aircraft (2052) than individuals (1082)? maybe those who responded have KitFox & SR22 in their garage with grass & pavement?
Clearly the sampled population was not representative.
The vast majority of GA participants are not reachable in any practical way. You would have to bang on every corner of social media for a year, and then you would just get those who are on social media and are bothered to respond.
This was discovered over and over again by e.g. people trying to contact N-reg owners based in Europe.
The standard problem with all types of “social research”. It cannot be done well without a lot of legwork, and nobody wants to do that unless there is a lot of money behind it.
I supplied data for 2021 but I wasn’t aware of 2020 survey.
I see they managed to find the two (living) AOPA members in Norway 
