“UNNECESSARY REGULATION”
AUSTRALIAN AVIATION TEST
[Per Press Association. — Copyright .l WELLINGTON, This Day.
“I would not think of making such a regulation,” said the Controller of Civil Aviation, Wing-Commander T. M. Wilkes, yesterday, when discussing the recent Australian restrictions, which demand that all commercial pilots should pass a stringent 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 was required by the Australian authorities, said WingCommander Wilkes, but it was not necessary for joy-riding 'and commercial pilots, who flew only in good weather. Nearly all the pilots on the air services operating in New Zealand had already passed blind flying tests, similar to those now required in Australia.
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Northern Advocate, 6 February 1936, Page 7
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