“BLINDFOLD” FLYING.
An interesting system of ‘blindfold’’ flying has been adopted for the training of pilots for the commercial night services which are shortly to be put into operation in Britain. The pilot sits in a hooded cockpit in which he can see only the instruments on the dashboard in front of him. A seat in the back of the plane—with a full range of vision—is occupied by an instructor, who has a duplicate set of controls, enabling him to take charge of the machine if necessary. The pupil pilot is given orders to fly to some distant point and the “blindfold” cockpit reproduces the conditions of a night flight. A system of coloured lights shows the pilot when he i~ ig on an even keel.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18352, 24 August 1929, Page 16
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126“BLINDFOLD” FLYING. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18352, 24 August 1929, Page 16
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