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1947
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146 FLIGHT AUGUST JTB, 19&47 Civil Aviation News knowledge of those Notices to Airmen which refer to flyingsafety, communications in the air, and air traffic procedures. Documents will not be allowed in the examination room, andthe examination will be concerned only with those Regulations and Notices in force fourteen days before the date of theexamination The examination in Aviation Law (General) is to be in theform of a written test on the general knowledge of the arrange- ment and contents of the various Regulations and Acts pub-lished by the Ministry. The object of the section is to assess a candidate's ability to extract information readily from therelevant documents, and candidates will be permitted to refer to their own documents during the examination. The Ministry of Civil Aviation have published a booklet entitled Civil Pilot's Licence Class "B" Technical Examina-tion, dated April, 1947, and with the Stationery Office No. M.C.A.P 18. This booklet explains the requirements of thenew examinations, gives an outline of the syllabus, and a sec- tion is devoted to typical questions in the various subjects onwhich pilots are to be examined. HELICOPTER LICENCE LAST month the C.A.B. issued the first certificate authoriz-ing air transport of property and mail by helicopter. Los Angeles Airways have been granted permission to operate fora period of three years with helicopters over three circular routes totalling approximately 200 miles and radiating out ofLos Angeles to thirty post offices in the area. The time limit has been set in view of the unknown potentiality of the heli- B AIRCRAFT REFUELLING ELOW is an alphabetical list, complete to July 21st, of airports at which avia tion spirit is available for re-sale. Airfield Aberdeen Aldermaston ... Balwia Barton ... Belfast (N.C.) ... Belfast (Syd.) ... Benbecufa BlackbusheBlackpool Bovingdon Brough Broxbourne Cambridge Cardiff (P.M.) ... Carlisle Christchurch Cowes Cranfield Croft Croydon Den ham... Derby Desford Edinburgh Elmdon Elstree Exeter .. Fair Oaks Gatwick. . Gravesend Guernsey Hanworth HatstonHurn Inverness Jersey London Airport Luton] Lympnc Macmeri-y Octane 100 100 100 100 too100 too 100 . 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 — — 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 — 87 87 — No. 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 Retailer Petroleum Board Petroleum Board McDonald Air- craft Manchester Cor- poration Petroleum Board Short & Harland Ministry of Civil Aviation Petroleum. Board Petroleum Board Petroleum Board Blackburn Air- craft Herts & Essex Aviation Marshall's" Flying School Petroleum Board British Air Transport Bournemouth Airport Cowes Airport College of Aero- nautics John Neasham, Croft Airport Petroleum Board Bickerton'sAerodromes Air Schools Reid & Sigrist Petroleum Board Midland Aero Club London Aero and Motor Services Petroleum Board Universal Flying Services Airwork General Trading Co. Essex Aero States of Guern- sey London Air Syndicare Petroleum Board Petroleum Board Petroleum Board States of Jersey Petroleum Board Luton Corpora- tionField Aircraft Services Edinburgh Flying Club Airfield Newtownards ... Northolt Old Warden ... Oxford Perth Peterborough ... Plymouth Poole Frying Boat Station only Portsmouth Prestwick Pwllheli RearsbyRenfrew Ringway... Rochester RonaJdsway Sherburn , Shoreham Southampton ... Southend Speke Stanstead Staverton Stornoway Sywell ... Tollerton Tollerton Watsall West Hartlepool Weston-super- Mare Whitchurch ...White Waltham Wolverhampton Woodley Woolsington ... Yeadon Yeovil Octane 100 100 100 — 100 100 — 100 — 100 — 100 too — — — — — — 100 100 — 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 — 87 87 87 — — 87. 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 87 — No. 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 — 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 Retailer Ulster Aviation Petroleum Board Warden Avia- tion Co. Goodhew Avia- tion Co. Airwork Morrison's Air- craft Services Plymouth Air- portPetroleum Board Portsmouth Aviation Petroleum Board Butlins Auster AircraftPetroleum Board Petroleum Board Rochester Flying ClubPetroleum Board A. G. Wilson Brooklands AviationSouthampton Corporation Southend Cor- porationPetroleum Board London Aero and Motor Services Gloucester Flying ClubPetroleum Board Brooklands AviationTollerton Air- craft Services Nottingham Airport Heiliwell's Northern Air Charter Western Air- ways Petroleum BoardWest London Aero Club Air Schools Miles Aircraft Newcastle Cor- poration Lancashire Air- craft Corp. Westland Air- craft copter, and the Board wishes to see whether the proposed ser-vice can be maintained on an economically sound basis with substantial poblk benefit, something which can. be establishedonly by experience. Since the middle of April the. American operate!. SkywayCorporation, has been flying a helicopter service from Logan Airport to the roof of an eight-storey garage in Boston. Duringthe first ten weeks one helicopter flew between the airport and the city once every fifteen minutes, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.daily. A total of three helicopters have now been acquired and the company plan to run 120 schedules a day and abolishreservations. The majority of passengers are from Ihe aircraft landing and taking off from Logan Airport, but about 20 percent are sightseers The fare is about 17s 6d. A C.A.B. licence is not required for operations of this kind, where noflight is made from one state into or across another. MCA. ADVISERS ^ THE Minister of Civil Aviation has made three appointment!^for the purpose of advising him on three important aspects of civil aviation. Professor George Temple, who is to be theChief Scientific Adviser, is Professor of Mathematics at King's College, London, a member of the Aeronautical ResearchCouncil and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Throughout the war he.was engaged on specialist duties at theR.A.E., Farnborough. Professor Temple will receive an annual honorarium of ^500, the others will be unpaid. Chief Business Adviser to the Ministry is to be Mr. LeslieGamage, vice-chairman and joint managing director of G.E.C. For the past four years he has been president of the Instituteof Transport and was president of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries in its jubilee year. Mr. Gamage represents theJoint Air Transport Committee of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, the Federationof British Industries, and the London Chamber of Commerce, on the NationalCivil Aviation Consultative Council. The Chief Adviser on IndustrialRelations will be Lord Dukeston, who was general secretary of the NationalUnion of General and Municipal Workers, and was president of thisyear's Trade Union Congress. He also represents the T..U.C. on the NationalCivil Aviation Consultative Council. SER VICES IN NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND airlines carried morethan 110,000 passengers on internal services during the last financial year.There were only ten aircraft operating in the first quarter, but the number hadincreased to twenty by the end of the year. By the end. of 1947, thirty-sixaircraft are expected to be operating on the Corporation's system and they willinclude ten Dakotas, ten Lodestars, live Electras, six Dominies, three Fox Mothsand two Sunderlands. The aim of the National Airways Cor-poration is to create a network of air services so that any point in NewZealand is within twelve hours of any other. The Corporation has now takenover the majority of New Zealand's privately owned internal airlines,the first task will be to strengthen services on the north-south routes con-necting the four main cities. Develop- ments include an increased frequency ofLodestars on the main trunk line be- tween Auckland, Wellington and Christ-church, and the introduction of Dakotas on that route. The present servicesmaintained by the R.N.Z.A.F. between Auckland and Fiji with Sunderlands willbe taken over with effect from October 1 st. and extensions will be attemptedfrom Suva to Lambassa according to traffic requirements. The average foa^on the main routes is at present about 95 per cent, and sometimes 99 per cent,of capacity. The objective, however, is to operate at 70 per cent of capacity, toavoid unnecessary advanced booking.
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