SAFETY IN AIR TRAVEL

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 15

SAFETY IN AIR TRAVEL

AUSTRALIA’S PLANS TO HELP

CIVIL AVIATION

(FROM oca OWN COKttESPOSDENT.I SYDNEY, September 17. Plans for ensuring the highest possible percentage of safety in Australian air travel have been approved by the Federal Government. Finance for an extensive programme of safeguards will be provided in the estimates. The Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill) said, in the House of Representatives, that of the £316,000 civil aviation appropriation, £157,000 was provided for buildings, works, and lighting facilities; £132,000 for radio range beacons and other wireless aids to air navigation, and .£20,000 for improved meteorological services. Tne installation of radio range beacons and radio communication services, and the provision of meteorological facilities on all major air routes, was of paramount importance to ensure the safety and regularity which were inseparable from successful air services. Pilots and aviation interests would be supplied with latest weather advices, after the establishment of centres at aerodromes in the capital cities and at points along the trunk routes. Radio-range beacons were to be installed at Canberra. Melbourne, and Launceston, and these, with one all ready installed in Sydney, and other beacons which were to be provided, would facilitate flights on the Sydney-Melbcurne-Hcbarl routes. Similar facilities would be provided later jn ether states, until a system of aviation aids was complete. To assist night flying, all capital chy airports were to be equipped with elaborate lighting facilities.