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f FLIGHT, 28 September 1930 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS • . • which an instrument rating is required. At present Annex i requires that the rating should be held by pilots who " manipulate the flight controls of an aircraft when under I.F.R. conditions." It applies, therefore, equally to co- pilots as well as to pilots-in-command. Since it was not the intention that this general requirement should apply to co- pilots, a re-wording of the regulations was recommended, which makes it quite clear that the general requirement to hold an instrument rating under I.F.R. applies only to pilots- in-command. BREVITIES *"PHE Minister of Civil Aviation, Lord Pakenham, has -I- appointed Mr. A. S. A. Bannister to be his Private Secretary. * • « A new note in passenger entertainment is struck by Panagra (Pan American-Grace Airways) who are providing cameras aboard their aircraft to enable passengers to photograph the scenic highlights of their journeys and to have pictures taken of themselves while in flight. • * • East-West Air Lines, Ltd., an Australian charter company operating from Tamworth Airfield, New South Wales, has recently acquired a three-seat Klemm Eagle monoplane. With this pre-war aircraft, E.-W.A. are able to offer the low charter rate of IR id per mile. • * * In August United Air Lines established new traffic records with approximately 153,500,000 revenue passenger-miles flown —a gain of IO-J per cent over the corresponding month of the previous year. Freight, express and mail figures also showed considerable improvement. * * * Bristol Freighters are being used in Pakistan to sow forests from the air. Preliminary details reveal that the operations are being carried out as an experiment over a 44,000-square mile belt along the Jhelum canal. » • • An agreement has been concluded to provide for scheduled services between Australia and Egypt. It places on a per- manent basis the grant of temporary landing concessions at present enjoyed by Australia in Egyptian territory. • • » The Minister of Civil Aviation has taken out a summons against Fairflight, Ltd., the owners of the Tudor airliner which crashed at Llandow with a loss of 80 lives. The summons, which is answerable at Burnham, Bucks, on October 2nd, alleges that one of the conditions of C. of A. for Tudor aircraft was contravened. * • • In a written reply to a recent question in the House of Commons, the Under-Secretary of State for Air, Mr. Aidan Crawley, said that the idea of forming of reserve transport squadrons from the resources of charter firms had been accepted in principle by the Government. He said it was hoped to begin organizing the first of these squadrons in the near future. TRIUMPHAL EXIT : These two Alfa-Romeo racing cars are shown in a Silver City Airways Bristol Freighter before being flown to Milan from Silverstone. They had gained first and second places in the International Trophy Race. M.C.A. Information Circular No. 94/1950 reminds pilots that as from October 1st no one will be permitted, without special clearance, to fly in controlled areas or zones in I.F.R. condi- tions unless he holds a valid instrument rating. The require- • g merit applies equally to areas and zones outside the I'.K. ' * • • In order to minimize landing delays, airfields under M.C.A. control will in future permit two aircraft to be simultaneously on the runway in use. It will be the responsibilitj' of the pilot of the second aircraft to determine what interval is necessary between his own and the preceding aircraft and position himself^. in the traffic pattern accordingly. •'%• * * * Delegates from 58 member-countries of I.C.A.O. attended the Air Transport Safety Conference which began on September ^ 14th. Fourteen members of the British delegation flew to Paris" in the Vickers Viscount—which, following inspection at the manufacturers' base—has now resumed scheduled flights on this route. The Paris conference was called to deal particularly with the controversial subject of performance requirements. * • « B.E.A.'s winter schedules, which will be introduced progres- sively from October 1st onwards, include a new 4^-hour flight between London and Barcelona and a daily flight to Madrid and Gibraltar. It is thought that Spain, with its new exchange rate, will now become increasingly popular with holiday travellers. There will also be more services this winter to Paris, Diisseldorf, Munich and Rome. On internal routes the number of nights weekly between London, Glasgow and Belfast will be increased by six and eight respectively, while, as compared with last winter, seven mor*;"~ services will be flown wee,kly on the London-Guernsey-Jersey route. According to recent reports American!: commercial pilots feel that the airlines;- are not doing everything in their poweri; to hasten the introduction of jet aircraft' on their routes. The U.S. Airline Pilots.1 Association comments acidly : '' Certain of our airline presidents have the audacity to state for pilot consumption that they do not intend to equip witibu; , jets for at least ten years . . . we con^; sider this type of propaganda to be ait insult to the present-day level of intelligence." MILK RUN : Among loads recently carried in an Aerovan operated by Sivewrights, Ltd., were two champion cows : they were taken to the Isle of Man to join a pedigree herd. 1! '
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