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1946
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198 I.A.T.A. Conference Recommendations : Official News of Constellations: New British Aircraft FIRST CZECH. The Dc 3 at Croydon after flying from Prague to London to initiate the Czech Airlines regular service. Sir Harold Hartley, chairman of B.E.A., met Mr. Trebicaavsky, president of C.S.A., who flew in the aircraft. CIVIL AVI UTILIZING GOODWILL AS a result of the Civil Aviation Act,B.E.A.C. are absorbing many British private airline companies with long ex-perience in air transport. The goodwill of personal experience is also being absorbed in the Corpora-tion, and the latest appointment is that of Cdr. G. O. Waters as manager of the English Division, which is responsible forthe internal air lines. Cdr. Waters was connected with Imperial Airways in 1929 and later became general manager of Jersey Airways. After serving with the Royal Navy during the war,' he became managing director of Channel Island Airways. With such a background of experience in civil aviation, the new manager is well equipped for building up the network of air services to be operated in England. AZIMUTHAL EQUIDISTANT PROJECTION/ THE hydrographic department of the Admiralty have pro-duced, with scientific precision, a new chart of the world designed to meet the requirements of air navigators, radio engineers and meteorologists. There is nothing new in this projection, but hitherto only approximate maps have been pro- FLIGHT AUGUST 22ND, 1946 THE HUB. Some interesting great - circle routes from London may be drawn on this new Admiralty chart. duced on it. The calculations for the graduation are laboriouseven with mechanical aids. The chart was produced by drawing a semi-circle of thegraduation, which was reversed by photography to obtain a complete circle. For this semi-circle over 1,600 inter-sectionswere computed, each of which had to be plotted independently. The curves of latitude and longitude were then drawn throughthese points ; each 5 deg. shape was subdivided into degrees by fine pencilled lines, and the main part of the outline transferredby the method of "similar squares" from larger Mercator charts. It was not possible to use that method for places atthe antipodes of London, and a further large number of posi- tions had to be computed before New Zealand, with itsadjacent islands, and part of Australia, could be drawn. The usefulness of the chart lies in the fact that, for the firsttime, the exact bearing and distance, by the shortest route, of any place in the world from London can be measured. PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS SIR WILLIAM HILDRED, the Director-General of I.A.T.A.,commenting upon the results of the technical conference at Stockholm which has just concluded, said that in his opinionthe cause of safer and more economical air transport had been advanced by two years, and he added that the delegates haddone, in effect, a massive job of technical digestion. Three weeks of exhaustive survey have produced many recommenda-tions for the Governments and airlines concerned. The stan- dards proposed by P.I.C.A.O. were the centre of the discus-sions, and the recommendations of this sub-committee will be communicated to the Organization. There was a predominatingdesire throughout the conference that the experience gained in military aviation during the past seven years should be madeavailable to civil aviation without delay. Many of the recom- mendations were highly technical, but some of the major pro-posals may be reviewed. The recommendation was made that responsibility for theseparation of air traffic, presumably the establishment of air lanes, should be left with individual Governments, whereasthe actual flight, and circuit and landing control should the responsibility of the operating companies. The useradar was suggested for the control of traffic in the crowd© zones. Regulations were requested for establishing a highstandard of proficiency among airline personnel, allowing flexi- bility ,for rapid development in flight equipment and tech-niques. This request was not confined to aircrew, as a similar suggestion was made for weather forecasters, aeronauticalground station radio operators and other ground personnel who should, it was considered, hold proof of competency. Each international airport should have, in the opinion ofthe conference, charts for a standard approach procedure drafted after agreement between the operating companies. Itwas considered that this would reconcile more efficiently the difficulties which may be experienced with equipment andtechniques than if arranged by P.I.C.A.O. Long-range flying over heavily used routes was also covered, with an urgentrequest for navigational plotting charts, and general specifica-
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