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beforehand to have demonstrated their
ability to do So to have the necessary
equipment in their airplanes, to fur
nish flight plans in advance and to
report their progress by radio.
The new rating will stand as
evidence that the pilot has met the
bureaus requirements with respect to
experience and training.
The non-scheduled airline pilot, to
qualify for the rating must be the
holder of transport, limited COM
mercial or private pilot license, must
have had 200 hours of solo flying
time, of which at least 20 hours must
have been devoted to instrument fly
ing instruction and practice, and
must pass a rigid fight test in an
airplane equipped with hooded
cockpit for blind flying.
During his flight test under the
hood, the pilot, accompanied by
Bureau Of Air Commerce inspector as
check pilot and examiner, will be re-
quired to navigate the airplane in
straight, level flight, in moderate
banks, making 180 and $50 degree
turns in both directions, in minimum
glides, maximum climbs and ap.
proa ches to stalled attitudes of flight,
climbing turns and recovery from
stalls, skids, slips, spirals, and banks
in excess of As degrees. The cam
didate for rating also will be tested in
tuning his radio equipment to the
range and airWayS broadcast facilities
and in the use of radio for orienta-
tion. He will be tested for ability to
follow a radio range beacon course
and to locate the cone of silence over
the transmitting station and to use
the two properly in letting down to
safe altitude preparatory to landing.
In the case of transport and limited
commercial license holders, whose
licenses must be renewed each six
months, the rating will be renewed If
the pilot has had at least two hours
OF instrument flying during the pre-
vious half year. For the private pilot,
whose license need be renewed only
once year, the rating will be re-
newed if ne has had four hours OF
instrument flying practice within the
year, including two hours within the
past six months before renewal.
p ULING over a tribe of 1000
Indians living in almost primitive
conditions, scarcely touched by civi-
lization, Chief Nellie of the San Bias
tribe of Porto Gandi, in the Carib-
bean, astonished a group of Navy
pilots few days ago by inquiring
blandly whether they could tell him
the present score in the Italo-
Ethiopian war. He was bit behind
hand in the news, he explained, but
was very much interested.
The Navy visit was made to Porto
Gandi, lao miles east of Coco Solo,
Canal Zone, by seven airplanes Of
VP Squadron ST, during a tactical,
navigation and communication exer-
else held last month. Porto Gandi
is located on one of the thousands of
small coral Gays along the Central
American coast and has remained
nearly free of foreign influences, the
pilots reported.
The Indians, 1000 of them living
on an island less than half mile
square, wore paint, beads and nose
rings and comported themselves much
after the fashion of their forebears
who met the Spanish adventures OF
the exploration days.
7 IKE the San Bias Indians. the ma
tives of part of the Hatteras
coast of North Carolina know the air
plane better than any other of tvs
| modern modes of transportation.
Navy pilots engaged in an inspection
flight of radio compass stations along
the coast. told of Oldest inha bitantS
of the little coastal fishing com-
munities who never have seen rail-
road, but who are quite familiar with
airplaneS.
Some of the North Carolina coast
men have watched the airplane
develop from its birth-the first air
plane flight having been made almost
in their front yards, on the sand
dunes at Kitty Hawk. Since then
| they have had an opportunity to
/ see coastwise bound aircraft parading
| by through the years. changing
| gradually from the f1imsy, tricky
powered glider of the Wright brothers
to the great, high-Speed load carriers
| of today.
A LL-EXPENSE fishing trips by ali
1 to Florida waters have made a
big appeal to local sportsmen. Eastern
Air Lines reports that number oi
parties have made week end trips "a
various favored Florida fishing
| grounds this season and that otheI
trips are being planned.
BY using the airline, it is possible
for an angler, by taking halliday oil
leave Saturday, to get in two days oi
/ Florida fishing. Leaving Washington
Friday evening, he is landed in Miami
| in time to get out where the big onei
run early Saturday morning. There
is an sirliner leaving Miami Sunday
night which puts the fisherman back
| in Washington very early Monday
morning, in time for nap and a day
at the office. with or without fish and
| fish stories.
PENNSYLVANIA AIRLINES durina
the past week observed the tenth
anniversary of the Inauguration d
the first Detroit Grand Rapids air,
line, one Of the worlds pioneer trans.
port routes, by carrying William B
Stout, founder of the line, over tn,
original route to luncheon meeting
in his honor at Grand Rapids.
Stout, designer of the famous Fore
all-metal transport airplane and ol
other aircraft, automobiles ant
streamlined railroad equipment, in.
augurated the Detroit-Grand Rapid
service August 2, 1926, using singl
engined Ford transports powered
with the wartime Liberty engine d
AIS horsepower. These airplanes eacl
carried eight passengers.