Breakdown of Private Pilots by Profession/Background? Any Data?

[AirDC]

Hi there -

Does anyone happen to know if there is data out there to show what professions tend to gravitate towards getting their private pilots license? I thought I remembered having to give my occupation during my check-ride application.

Looking for a chart like 20% business executives, 20% lawyers, 20% doctors, 20% Real Estate Developers, 10% students, 5% self-employed, 5% models, etc. Just making arbitrary numbers up - looking for some hard data for research purposes and couldn't find anything online.

Send any links you might be able to share. Thanks!

Thanks!

Drew

 

[Jim Logajan]

Interesting question; did a quick net search and found this document with some possibly relevant ancillary statistics of one magazine's subscriber base:

http://www.midwestflyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/CIRCULATION_2010.pdf

Summary: The typical private pilot is a college educated white male in his 50s in a well paying profession.