BLIND-FLYING TESTS.
IS AUSTRALIAN REGULATION
TOO STRINGENT ?
(By Telegraph —Press Association ) WELLINGTON, Last Night.
“I would not think of making such a regulation,” said the Controller of Civil Aviation, Wing-Commander T. M. Wilkes, to-day when discussing the recent Australian restriction which demands that all commercial pilots should pass a stringent blind-flying examination by the end of the year or lose their licenses. It was right to demand that pilots flying on regular air services should have had adequate blind-flying experience such as is required by the Australian authorities, but it was not necessary for joy-riding oi’ commercial pilots who flew only in good weather. Nearly all pilots on the air services operating in New ZeaZlaml had already passed blind-flying tests similar to those now required in Australia.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1936, Page 3
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