OTAGO AERO CLUB.

Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 11

OTAGO AERO CLUB.

PILOT INSTRUCTOR APPOINTED.

FLYING OFFICER E. G. OLSON.

At a meeting on Thursday evening of a sub-committee of the Otago Aero Club set up to consider the appointment of a pilot-instructor to the club, it was decided- to appoint Flying Officer E. G. Olson to the position.

Flying Officer Olson is 25 years of age. and he has had a wide experience both as a pilot and as an instructor. Up to date he has had over 1125 hours’ solo flying on 17 different types of aircraft ranging from heavy service machines to light aeroplanes. Four hundred hours of this time have been expended in instructing pupils on light aeroplanes. He is the only civilian pilot in New Zealand who holds a Royal Air Force instructor's certificate. During the past five years he has been flying in England, Egypt, India, and New Zealand, and so has acquired experience of widely different fly ing conditions. The Director of Air Services for the Dominion (Wing-commander GrantDalton ), who was asked to report on all the applicants, reported to the club that he had no hesitation in recommending Mr Olson as the most suitable candidate for the position. Mr Olson will take up his duties on October 20 atthe latest, or possibly a week earlier, and his first task will be to bring down from Wigram the Govern ment plane which- is to .be loaned to the club. A further plane will be available about the end of November, and from that date onward the club’s aerodrome at the Taieri should be the centre of considerable aerial activity.