Key Microlight statistics of NORWAY 2011/2012
- Microlight Association's name:
the Microlight Section of the Norwegian Air Sports Association
- Number of paying members in the microlight association. approx. 1000
- Number of active microlight pilot licences in Norway (total) 550
- Number of microlight aircraft with active permit to fly during 2011:
322
(15 gyro, 40 weight shift and 225 3-axis at end of year)
- Total on the microlight register: 622
- Annual total Flight Hours registered:
11415 (2011)
- Annual total number of flights: 34797 (2011)
- Number of accidents & incidents reported (2011): 33 (dominating is landing incidents/accidents
)
- Number of fatalities (2011 & 2012): none
- Number of injured (2011 & 2012): none
- Accidents & incidents reported so far in 2012: 17
Competitions:
Norway held National Microlight Championships at the national sailplane centre Starmoen 21 July 2012.
Partipants: 7 aircraft
– classic classes/single class mixed
Participation in international competitions: none in 2011 & 2012
Colibri badges: none
The Microlight Section work to lift it’s gyroplanes MTOM to the EASA Annex II limit of 560 kg.