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Aviation History
1948
1948 - 1129.PDF
JULY 22ND, 1948 101 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS FORMATION TAKE-OFF: An exclusive and unusual photo of a flight of five B.E.A. helicopters taking off from Yeovil airfield. The three aircraft nearest the camera are Westiand-Sikorsky machines and the two distant aircraft are Irvin Bell helicopters. The former is being used for the B.E.A. helicopter mail service, referred to in " Flight," June 10th, which opened in co-operation with the G.P.O. on June 1st. New Airline and Commercial Pilots' Licences Proposed : I.C.A.O. Conference at Seattle : New York Airport Contracts G.C.A. AT LONDON AIRPORT DURING the first year of the operation of radar-controlledlandings at London Airport, which was completed on July 1st, a total of 2,184 Ground Controlled Approaches toland have been carried out. About half of these were normal operational services and the remainder were practice land-ings. It is a rule of the Corporation's that all captains of aircraft, no matter \how experienced, on positioning flightsfrom the Corporation's maintenance base at Hurn, Hants, must make practice G.C.A. landings on arrival at London Airport. PROFESSIONAL PILOTS' LICENCES VTOTICE TO AIRMEN NO. 255 gives details of the new•*• » professional pilots' licences which it is proposed to intro- duce later in the year. The new categories and qualificationsare in accordance with the recommendations made by the International Civil Aviation Organization, and will be intro-duced when the necessary legislation has been passed. In place of the existing pilots' licences Class "B" therewill be three classes: Commercial Pilot's Licence, Senior Commercial Pilot's Licence, and Airline Transport Pilot'sLicence, and as the new licences are introduced the issue of the old "B" Class will cease. There will, however, be aninterval of time to allow existing licence holders to comply with the requirements for the appropriate new licence. Inaddition, the new regulations will require pilots when flying under Instrument Flight Rules to possess an InstrumentRating. Such a requirement will be brought into use as soon as practicable after the new regulations have been introduced,and will be the subject of a new Notice to Airmen. Examinations for the new types of pilots' licences will notstart before October 1st this year, and in order to give licence holders ample opportunity to qualify for the senior commercialor airline transport pilot's licences applications for renewal of "B" and second class navigators' licences current on thedate on which issue of the new licences begin will continue to l>e entertained at their ordinary dates of renewal up to theend of next year. Such licences will entitle holders to exercise the same privileges as hitherto until they finally cease to bevalid. Special arrangements will be made for those pilots who, as the new regulations come into force, already hold"T>'> ]; cences an(j are qualifying for second class navigators'•B' 'icences. They will be able to obtain the higher professional licences in a provisional form pending full qualification for instrument Rating. The Commercial Pilot's Licence will permit the holder to fly under Visual Flight Rules as pilot in charge of any publictransport aircraft not employed on regular airline services and not exceeding 12,500 ib maximum total authorized weight,and under Instrument Flight Rules if he also holds an Instru- ment Rating. He • may not fly as pilot in charge carryingpassengers by night unless within the previous 90 days he has made five night take-offs and landings. Applicants musf benot less than 18 years of age, with 200 hours' experience as pilot, including certain conditions. Ground examination willbe of approximately the same standard as for the present "B" licence, but there will be additional examinations inFlight Operation and in Visual Morse reception. Applicants will also be required to pass a medical examination and flyingtests. Each licence will bear an endorsement or series of endorsements indicating which particular type of aircraft heis entitled to fly as pilot in charge and as second pilot. Such endorsements will be dependent upon passing the appropriatetechnical, operational and flying tests on the type concerned. These licences will normally be valid for six months and renew-able at similar intervals subject to medical examination and proof of recent flying experience. Privileges attached to the holders of the Senior CommercialPilot's Licence, subject to the necessary type rating, include the permit to fly under V.F.R. and I.F.R. as pilot in chargeof any public transport aircraft not exceeding 15,000 lb and of any public transport aircraft not carrying passengers whichdo not exceed 30,000 1b and on any aerial work aircraft, and also as second pilot in all conditions. The applicant mustbe not less than 21 years old, with 700 hours' experience, of which 200 hours must be as captain, with several other par-ticular conditions. Ground examinations will be similar to existing 2nd N., with examinations in Flight Operations andflying, with the necessary Instrument Rating. Highest category of all is the Airline Transport Pilot'sLicence, which will entitle the holder to fly as pilot in charge or second pilot of any aircraft under V.F.R. and I.F.R. con-ditions. The applicant must be not less than 21 years and must have 1,200 hours' flying experience, including 100 hoursnight flying and 250 hours as captain, with certain conditions. The ground examination will be approximately the samestandard of the Second Class Navigators, with the exception of Met. and Operation, which will be to first N standard. Instrument Rating endorsement will permit the holderto flv as pilot in charge or as second pilot under I.F.R. All applicants must be holders of valid pilots' licences and havecarried out 150 hours as pilot in charge and not less than 40 hours' instrument flying. Examinations will include the
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