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308 FLIGHT MARCH 17TH, 1949 CIVIL AVIATION. NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR MALTA : The main runway at Ciampino Airport, Rome, is 2,400 yd long and parallel to it is a spare runway of pierced steel plate. B.O.A.C. made Rome a night stop on the Australian route as from December 1st, and also make it a night stop for the weekly York service to Teheran. In this photograph a British European Airways Viking is seen taking off. New British Pilots' Licences and Aircraft Regulations : I.A.T.A. Clearing House Successful Year : A Heavier Constellation I.CA.O. MEETING IN LONDON THIRTY or more delegations from Colonial, Commonwealthand foreign Governments have been invited to attend theI.C.A.O. African/Indian Ocean Regional Air Navigation Meet- ing in London on March 22nd. Contracting States will be asked to determine the airfields, and ground facilities which should be provided for international air transport services cross- ing Africa and the Indian Ocean. The meeting is being held at Park House, 24, Rutland Gate, and is expected to continue until the middle of next month. Those delegates who have time and wish to see airfield communication and navigation equipment being made in this country will be invited to take the opportunity offered for inspecting it at the various manu- facturers' premises. Invitations have also been sent to other States who might be interested and also to the international organizations: F.A.I., I.A.T.A., International Met. Org., International Telecommunications Union and the United Nations. NEW CIVIL REGULATIONS A COMPLETE edition of the revised British civil aviationcode of law known as the Air Navigation Order and Regulations was made available last Monday, March 14th. The Air Navigation Order, 1949, Air Navigation (General) Regulations, 1949, and Air Navigation (Radio) Regulations, 1949 will replace the Air Navigation (Consolidation) Order, 1923 and Air Navigation Directions, 1936 and all the amend- ments. The new Order and Regulations provide for the introduction, on April 1st, of the new Pilots' Licences announced in Notices to Airmen Nos. 255 and 358 of 1948. In order to allow time for pilots to comply with the new requirements holders of "B" Licences will be able to renew them up to June 30th, 1950. Learner pilots who, under the old regulations, were permitted to make practice flights without a licence will be required to obtain a Student Pilot's Licence before flying solo tor which the only requirements will be a medical examina- tion, and to have attained the age of 17. The holder of such a licence will not be confined to flights within three miles of an airfield but, when authorized by a flying instructor, will be permitted to fly anywhere in the U.K. Present holders of "A" Licences will, on application for renewal of their current licences, be issued with a Private Pilot's Licence with an aircraft-type rating. For the purpose of rating, the Ministry will require to see log-books It is understood that all flying clubs will receive instructions on procedure before April 1st. Included in the new Order and Regulations are also the technical standards and procedures adopted by the Inter- national Civil Aviation Organization-, which make it compul- sory, as from April 1st, for all aircraft making scheduled journeys to carry radw.. New performance requirements for all aircraft engaged on freight or passenger-carrying commer- cial flights are also introduced. It is understood that the latter regulations have been designed to prevent flights of a kind that would obviously be outside the range and capacity of the type of aircraft employed and to ensure as far as pos- sible that in an emergency an aircraft would either be able to make a forced landing or reach the nearest airfield, or, if over the sea, to reach the nearest land. Regulations lay down, for example, that aircraft intended for flights over water of more than 90 minutes' flying distance from the shore must be able to maintain a height of 5,000ft with one engine inopera- tive. Aircraft which cannot? fly for more than 30 minutes at 5,000ft with one engine inoperative must carry full dinghy- equipment whedtflying, over" water. NEW B.E.A. ROUTESB .E.A.C. state that, as recently announced, services will be introduced to link north and south Wales and also Man- chester, Birmingham and Paris. The former services, flown with D.H. Rapides, will start from Liverpool and fly to Cardiff via Ha warden in the morning, returning via Hawarden to Valley in the afternoon. The following day it will reverse the process and terminate at Liverpool. Although the service is primarily intended to link north and south Wales, by including Liverpool B.E.A. are also providing direct communication between Liverpool and Cardiff. CLEARING HOUSE TRANSACTIONS DURING 1948 the I.A.T.A. Clearing House in Londonhandled a turnover of $124,000,000, compared with $52,400,000 in 1947. Commenting on these figures, Sir Wil- liam Hildred, Director-General of I.A.T.A., states that the Clearing House makes it possible for the airlines to offer the public inter-line bookings through different routes to virtually all parts of the world with efficiency, economy, and security against the risk of currency inflation. Airlines which sell transport over each other's routes in various currencies use the I.A.T.A. Clearing House to offset their respective monthly balances after they have been converted into either dollars or sterling. Settlement is thus reduced to a single payment to or by the Clearing House in one currency or other. In this manner 78 per cent of the 1948 transactions were cleared by offset while cash payments of only $13,640,000 were required to settle^ the year's accounts. Mr.**A. J> Quin-Harkin, manager of the Clearing House, states that individual airlines' monthly accounts are on occa- B 10
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