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1949
1949 - 1085.PDF
686 FLIGHT JUNE 9TH, 1949 Civil Aviation News want to have stops along the East Coast for flights to Bermuda, Nassau and the West Indies. They suggest they should be allowed to stop at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washing- ton and Jacksonville, Florida. * • • Members of the Joint Air Transport Committee of theAssociation of British Chambers of Commerce, the Federation of British Industries and the London Chamber of Commerce,visited the works of Saunders-Roe, Ltd., on May 27th. After visiting the development and research department they wereentertained to lunch and later inspected the Princess flying boats under construction. In order to handle the greater demand for bookings, American Overseas Airways increased Irans-Atlantic services on June 2nd to 21 round trips a week. There are ten flights each week in and out of London, four round trips weekly to Stockholm, three to Amsterdam, and two each to Oslo and Copenhagen. Some of the London ancjf Amsterdam flights extend to Germany. * * * A new weekly service between Rome and South America was recently started by Alitalia, the Italian airline in which B.E.A. has a 40 per cent financial interest. Flights leave Rome every Monday flying via Dakar, Natal, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to Buenos Aires. A similar service operated by Alitalia calls at Montevideo instead of Sao Paulo. FROM THE CLUBS THE West London Aero Club started its summer fixture-liston Saturday, May 21st, with a landing competition which was enjoyed by competitors and spectators alike. Twenty-six members entered the contest, which required an engine-off descent from 1,oooft, the aircraft to be brought in over one tape, to land and to come to a standstill as near as possible to a second tape, without overshooting it. Mr. D. E. Ewart of the Fairey Flying Club was the eventual winner, with Mr. S. G. Nicholson of the West London Aero Club second and Miss S. Van Damm, of the Windmill Theatre Flying Club, third. Both the Fairey and the Windmill Theatre Clubs are affiliated to the West London. During the season the W.L.A.C. is holding three cross- country competitions, both open and under the hood, and finishing up with a "precautionary landing" competition. The entrant securing the most marks from these four competi- tions will qualify for the Windmill Theatre Challenge Cup, to be presented at the end of the season. * * * 'TPHE first of three air displays and rallies to be held during •I the summer by the Cowes Aero Club is to take place on Sunday, June 19th. Flying competitions and other contests have been arranged and all flying clubs have been invited to attend. The exhibition side of the display will include mock- combat flying, parachute jumping and wing-walking. Follow- ing the display, a dance will be held in the club house for members and theLr guests. Introduction of the new licensing regulations has not, apparently, in the least diminished the enthusiasm of student pilots, and the flying instructors have been kept very busy. A new one of the latter to join the stafl is Mr. R. Langridge, who was previously an instructor in the R.A.F. • * •F URTHER details are now available of the air display to be held by the Darlington and District Air Centre on Satur- day, June nth, at Croft-on-Tees Airfield. An arrival com- petition has been organized to take place between 1300 and 1400 hr, to be followed by the actual display. Events will include a demonstration of homing procedure by an Anson, TURKISH TOURER ; The T.H.K. 5 series, manufactured by Turk Hava Kurumu Ucak Fabrikasi (the Turkish Air League factory at Ankara), is designed to accommodate six persons, including a crew of one or two pilots, or, in a special model, two stretcher- cases and attendants. Turkish-built Gipsy Majors provide the power and the cruising speed is said to be about 125 m.p.h. formation flying and aerobatics by Spitfires, a parachute descent, crazy-flying by S/L. W. Evans in a Tiger Moth, target bombing, and a demonstration of the Slingsby Motor Tutor and the Chrislea Super Ace. There will he the usual competitions for visiting aircraft. * * * • :A T a time when flying clubs are using every argument to obtain financial support from the Government it is interest- ing to learn of an independent scheme to encourage private flying. The Wiltshire School of Flying, Ltd., has for long en- deavoured to reduce the cost of flying to its members but the steady rise in labour, material and fuel costs—with heavy rental and rates since a move to Thruxton—have added to the difficulties. The School has now introduced a " pay-as-you- learn'' scheme based on the new requirements for the Student Pilot's Licence. As Mr. J. E. Doran-Webb pointed out at a recent meeting of the A.B.A.C., the new licence requirements do not, in fact, increase the cost of learning to fly. In 1938, he said, very similar regulations were in force in the United States and pupils of civil flying schools learned to fly up to student-pilot level on such aircraft as the Piper Cub, which entailed about seven hours dual instruction. After flying with that licence for a period, and when some 30 hours' flying-had been com- pleted, further flying and a ground course qualified the pilot for a private pilot's passenger-carrying licence. Mr. Doran-Webb thought that the new licensing procedure was intended to achieve the same purpose on this side of the Atlantic and he thought the old "A" licence was dangerous: any pupil after completing three hours solo could, and frequently did, carry any number of passengers without infrig- ing the regulations. Whereas the flying schools would not permit newly qualified pilots to carry passengers there was nothing to prevent private owners from doing so. The new regulations did ensure that no pilot could carry a passenger until he had done a minimum of 30 hours' flying. Further- more, the prospective pilot could, as a student pilot and with the approval of his instructor, fly to any airfield he ivished instead of being restricted to a radius of three miles of his home airfield as when qualifying for the " A " licence. Having flown the requisite number of hours the pilot who wished to carry pas- sengers would be required to study ele-^ mentary meteorology, navigation, air traffic control and air legislation, and on being pro- ficient and having passed the examination he would obtain his Private Pilot's Licence. The Wiltshire Flying Club is a member of the A.B.A.C. which, of course, requires cer- tain flying and servicing standards to be maintained. In the new system the club's student pilots' course covers seven hours' flying.instruction, either dual or solo. This can be obtained in any of the following instal- ment plans: (a) £3 down and 34 instalments of 12s 6d, total, £24 5s; (b) £6 down and 30 instalments of 12s, total, £24; (c) £9 down and 20 instalments of 14s 6d, total, ^23 10s; (d) /12 down and 20 instalments of us, total, , 23. The charges include the fee lor the medical examination (15s) and three months' membership of the Wiltshire Flying Club [£\ is), which entitles the student to.all Clubby facilities, with accommodation and meals at club rates. It also covers all ground instruc- tion and the loan of instructional handbooks. There are no extra charges. Any additional flying over the amounts shown tan be paid for by further instalments. B. I1'
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