Peter wrote:
Can a German speaker translate the PDFs here and possibly find numbers for annual hours flown, annual infringments, and maybe other stuff, for here? Many thanks
I have begun to dig into those documents. Very detailed statistics, many of which aren’t of direct interest for this topic.
A few key points:
The very broad article raises many different topics and in general tries to promote a “decentralized air traffic structure”, emphasizing the importance of small airfields. 25 airports are chiefly responsible for most of the commerical air traffic in Germany, but the over 900 “other airfields” fulfill many key functions for the economy and society at large, such as enabling business aviation, pilot training, private aviation and are a boon to the local economy, employing tens of thousands of people.
I did not see any numbers for number of licenses or active pilots anywhere in the article…
As was to be expected, infringements were not a topic in this article either.
Many thanks.
Is that 6500 D-Exxx aircraft flying? That seems a small number.
Peter wrote:
Is that 6500 D-Exxx aircraft flying? That seems a small number.
Confirm. Look at the graph at page 25 of the long document, the caption is Abbildung 2.15
Peter (or anyone else), what would be the comparable number of SEPs in the UK?
I can’t find any reference right now and don’t believe the CAA is publishing any, but the figure usually thrown around is 20k aircraft.
One could do some digging at G-INFO (preferably with a script which goes through the whole lot) and there you even get the hours at the last annual so you could get the activity profile. I wonder if anybody wants to do that 
G-INFO is capcha’d – you won’t have a script (at least a simple one without an AI capcha solver, most of which are dodgy because they are written for spammers) that can pull the data.
The microlights and the associated licences are probably not included in the LBA data because the technical oversight and licensing of these has been delegated to two clubs, the DAeC (Deutscher Aeroclub, an association most smaller German Clubs are part of) and the DULV (Deutscher Ultraleicht-Verein, an association for microlighters only).
Those two administrate everything concerning microlights.
I attended an assembly of the DAeCs local branch this November where they presented some statistics.
The first one shows the numbers of certified aircraft on the German register. I think the numbers were given by MedEwok already, but the visualisation is nice.
E means SE below 2t, S is for gliders, K for powered gliders, O for balloons and L for airships. I just noticed the numbers are cut off at the side. When I’m home, I’ll replace the scan with a better one.
For microlights the DAeC has these figures for “their” microlight planes and gyrocopters. Those of the DULV are not included, so total figures are slightly higher:
First column is “type certificates”, second one is “number of registered ULs” and the last “number of microlight licenses”, with the sub-columns indicating “new” and “grand total”.
UK registered aircraft as at 1 January 2019 by aircraft class and EASA category. CAA Aircraft Registration Section. (pdf link). local copy
G-INFO is capcha’d – you won’t have a script (at least a simple one without an AI capcha solver, most of which are dodgy because they are written for spammers) that can pull the data.
Yes indeed. The captcha is new, though, and if I can think of this it must have already been done by somebody. I clearly remember the Mode S hex codes for G-regs being in some database, so they must have come from farming G-INFO.
The captcha they use doesn’t do the “tick all pics containing a vehicle” thing. It looks at your IP, your typing timing, etc. We have one of these on EuroGA signups now and it is evidently good for blocking bots.
The other problem is that to get the annual usage you would need to do it every year and work out the hours. I remember a whole crowd of people doing this many years ago, when one well known UK pilot forum personality was claiming 200rs/year in a particular plane 
UK registered aircraft as at 1 January 2019 by aircraft class and EASA category. CAA Aircraft Registration Section.
That’s a brilliant find, Qalupalik. I wonder how many of them are active? Presumably these have a current Annual?
Adding up the fixed wing ones, and excluding CS-25 (airliners, basically) I get 8920 which is comparable to the German total (which is probably a bit higher for the equivalent categories).
