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IO2 f'L JULY 22ND, 1.948 Civil Aviation News following subjects except in so far as«any applica*n-f.bas atyqualified in the course of obtaining a Commercial Pilof-e " B " Licence or one of the navigators licences': AviatioirT^w,Flight Operation, Air Navigation, Meteorology and Signals. The applicants will also be required to pass Hying tests andthe Instrument Rating will remain valid indefinitely, subject to the passing of a periodical flying test. Examinations inflight operations will contain questions on flight planning and the safe operation of aircraft. In an Appendix to the Notice to Airmen there is a pro-visional table of exemptions for current licence holders from examination requirements for new professional pilots' licences.Applicants for the Senior Commercial and Airline Transport Pilot's licences will have to qualify for an Instrument Ratingby satisfying examiners that they can fly by instruments only and can land in poor visibility, using S.B.A. and G.C.A. Itwill latei be illegal for any pilot to enter a Control Zone under I.F.R. conditions unless he has an Instrument Rating. Thecommercial pilot who is not required to hold Instrument Rating will undergo in the course of his training at least 10hours instruction in the air in the use of instruments and will take the new examination which includes aircraft instruments. Regulations for the licensing of private and student pilotswill be published at a later date, but it is understood from the Association of British Aero Clubs that the cost of obtain-ing the licence will not be affected. New conditions will require a total of 30 hours' flying dual and solo, and until thatis obtained a student pilot's permit will allow the holder to fly solo, including cioss-country, under the supervision orwith the permission of a qualified flying instructor. These conditions will only state in writing what has been the positionduring the past 22 years in British flying clubs. Pilot members have always been required to fly a minimum of 30 hours underthe supervision of a flying instructor before being approved to carry passengers in club aircraft. FLYING TO RACES f~XLLEY AIR SERVICE, LIMITED, are now in a position tov^ provide seats at individual fares, on demand, for flights to Newmarket, Doncaster and York for racing. Departure tiro.esfrom Croydon airport will be arranged to arrive at the destina- tion in time for the first race and the aircraft will leave as soonas possible after the last race. The fares will be £4 to New- market, £10 to Doncaster and ^12 to York, and the companyintend to provide similar facilities to other race meetings if required. NORTH PACIFIC CONFERENCE EXAMINATION of the existing facilities for airports, navi-gational aids, communications, air traffic control, meteor- ology, operations, search and rescue, and the determination ofextra facilities required for the development of air transport in the North Pacific region started in Seattle on July 13th. TheNorth Pacific Regional Air Navigation meeting was to have been attended by member states of I.C.A.O. which have aninterest in operations in that area and includes Australia, Canada, China, France, India, Philippines, Netherlands, NewZealand, Siam, United Kingdom and the United States. A revised schedule of I.C.A.O. meetings has been published: —N. Pacific Regional Air Navigation Meeting (Seattle), July 13th. ^ Ocean Regional Air Navigation Meeting J Algiers) AugtfsJ, 24th ; * Aij; J^vigation Committee (Mpptreal) September 6th. Couneil (Fifth Session). Montr^iLSeptember 7th. •"Air Transport Committee (Montreal), September 8th. South*easf**i¥sia Regional Air Navigation Meeting (New Delhi), November,-a^rd. Operations Division (Montreal) February 8th, 1949. Airworthiness Division?1 (Montreal) February 22nd, 1949. TROUBLE AT IDLEWILD K.L.M., S.A.S. and Sabena have now also signed contractswith the Port of New York Authority for operating into Idlewild airport. B.O.A.C. has declined to accept any suchcontract to move from La Guardia since the Corporation operates under an agreement with Pan American Airways,using the facilities of that company which has a long lease at La Guardia. Sabena has also been operating at La Guardiaunder an arrangement with Pan American Airways, but S.A.S. and K.L.M. have had similar agreements with A.O.A. In 1945when Idlewild was administered by the City of New York, airlines signed lease agreements based on fixed rentals. The inew leases, however, allow the Port Authority absolute power to alter charges at Idlewild from year to year and also theexclusive right to sell fuel to airlines using the airport. These two clauses have aroused considerable opposition from theairlines concerned since it was understood that when the Port Authority took over the original contracts would hold good.Subsequently the Authority announced that it would not recognise the 1945 contracts. Transatlantic operators will beurged to move from La Guardia to relieve congestion, but it has been argued that since their traffic amounted to about onlytwo per cent of the total handled by the airport their removal to Idlewild would not appreciably ease the overcrowded condi-tions. TRAVEL ASSOCIATION YEAR , : f IN the balance sheet for the year ended March 31st, 1948,presented at the annual general meeting of the Travel Association of the United Kingdom on July 15th in London,the expenditure in excess of income was £4,331. For publicity overseas in the form of booklets, folders, posters, Press filmsand other forms of advertisements the cost was ^221,117. Other expenses brought the total to ,£296,896. During the year1947, 250,000 foreigners visited Britain on holiday and 86,000 on business. Visitors from the Empire and Commonwealthtotalled 55,000. From the United States holiday visitors numbered 36,376 and business visitors 11,583. The averagefor the "years 1936-38 and for 1947 showed that the peak months for arrivals in this country were July and August. An analysis of the subscription revenue shows that air trans-port subscribed £539 in the year 1947-48 and £478 in the previous year. The representative in the Association forB.O.A.C. is the Corporation's chairman, Sir Harold Hartley. The chairman of the Travel Association, Lord Hacking, re-ferred in his speech to the deaths of Lord Derby, former president of the Association, and the T.U.C. representative,Lord Dukeston. The new president, Lord Jowitt, was intro- duced, and in his speech the Lord Chancellor said that tourismwas already the largest export trade from this country to the United States, and even the textile industry had to takesecond place to it In rg48 it was expected to earn over 1 /in,000,000 from the 100,000 American and Canadian visitors. BRAB-HOUSE : An imp.essive photograph of the huge assembly hall at Filton, built for the erection of the Rrabazon. Arrangements have recently been made between &.O.A.C and Bristols for the use by the former of Filton airfield and part of this building ; the Corporation is transferring its maintenance base ftom Dorval, Montreal, to Filton, and other premises are also being constructed there to save dollars.
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