Aviation threads generally generate a fair number of responses on this forum. Threads like this one:
Horror-Landing at Hamburg Airport
And other aircraft threads have "high read rates" on GT40s.com. I wonder if GT40s.com has a disproportionate number of pilots in relation to a) the general population and b) an average car forum.
In 2005 the US had 295M people and about 609,000 pilots. This works out to about 0.2% of the US population (sorry don't have world figures).
If this ratio were to remain constant for GT40s.com membership we'd have about 12 pilots here with a total membership of 6000. Or, maybe we should estimate an active readership of around 2000 and we'd have about 4 pilots.
So how many licensed pilots do we have here on the forum (don't have to have a current medical, just at one time been a licensed pilot)?
I'll sign up as pilot one.