Evening star., 1936-03-08

The lecture courses used in this
training were prepared and compile
by Gunnery Sergt. ]. Gordon, U. S.
M C. R., the Marine Reserve station
keeper attached % the Reserve unit
at the AnacoStia station. These
courses are regarded as so well pre-
pared and arranged that large num-
ber of copies have been put in process
of preparation and it is expected that
they also will be used in Naval Re-
serve training. When sufficient copies
are available. they will be sent to all
Reserve bases for possible use.
Army Air Corps Reserve officers
have been classified in five different
groups under recent change in Army
regulations. This supersedes the old
division into three assignment groups.
Under the grouping. Group l will
include pilots and observers qualified
for fight duty with a tactical unit
without further training or officers
equipped for immediate assignment to
administrative and technical duties;
Group 2 will include non-Army-
trained pilots in need of additional
flight or military training; Group 3,
pilots and observers not available for
flight duty; Group 4. non-f1yers, and
Group S, an unassigned pool.
Group l has been divided into three
classif1cations: First, pilots and OBJ
servers who are listed as qualified for
flight duty with tactical unit with
out further training; second, pilots and
observers who require limited amount
of training to handle new types Of
airplanes or in special tactics, and
third older officers who have passed
the peak of their flying proficiency
and are not qualified for combat flying
but who have experience and training
which fits them to take over admin
istrative and technical duties at once,
without training.
Group will be composed chiefly of
pilots who enter the Air Corps Reserve
from civilian flying schools or from
flight training centerS other than the
Air Corps Training Center and who
require either additional flying train
ing or experience in military opera
tions to qualify them for combat serv-
ice AS these pilots gain experience
and proficiency, they will be moved up
to Group /.
Group includes pilots and observ-
ers disqualified from flight duty for
physical or professional reasons and
pilots and observers, who. at their own
request. have been relieved from flight
duty.
Group 4. the non-f1yers, includes
those who have not been awarded any
one Of the four aeronautical ratings in
accordance with Army regulations.
Group S. the pool of unassigned Off
GERS. includes those Air Corps Reserve |
officers who are not eligible for promo |
ton, for assignment or for active duty !
training.
C0ndr. Bertram Groesbeck. Navy |
Medical Corps, has been relieved Of |
duty as medical officer at the Ana
costa Naval Air Station to take a re-
fresher course in fight training at
the Naval Air Station, Pensacola. Fla
Comdr Groesbeck had not flown as a
pilot in several years and expects to
put in quite bit of training time
before again reaching solo stage.
Lieut.. Comdr. George w. Wilson
has relieved Comdr. Groesbeck as
medical officer and welfare officer at
the Anacostia station.
Passenger traffic between Washing
ton and Detroit has increased so heav-
lily during the last few weeks that
Central AirlineS has added a fourth
round trip to its daily schedules. The
new schedule increases scheduled |
monthly mileage from 81, 72O to ILL.,
$50 miles.
Ordinarily. in the past, additional
schedules were not added until Spring"
1t was explained by J. D. Condon presi-
dent Of the line, in announcing the
new trip. I'VE definitely look for a
record year in passenger traffic in
1886"
Central Airlines and PENNSYLVANIA
Airlines, operating over the same route
to Detroit and beyond to Milwaukee,
make connections with four major air
transport systems: Eastern Airlines.
here; American Airlines, Transconti-
mental and Western Air and United
Airlines
The new schedules call for daily
departures from Washington Airport at
$50 am, and 35, 80 and II 10 pm.
Rates for aviation insurance not only
are being reduced gradually at the
present time, but will be substantially
lowered in the future, according to a
report submitted to the Board of Gov
ernors of the National Aeronautic As
sociation by special committee Gre
ated in 1884 to study the whole subject.
It was pointed out that because of
the necessity of building up sufficient
reserves in the new field of aviation
insurance, the rates have had to be
higher in the past than now is neces-
Sary. Time was held to be the best
solution of the aviation insurance
problem
Rates have maintained a constant
downward trend and now when we
consider the premiums for three years,
namely, 1882, 1888 and 1884" the COM
mittee reported, eve find that condf-
tions have imported to such an
extent that the overall loss expert
ence for the three years shows a total
premium of $2O7, ,724, with total losses
OF $118,817 or loss ratio Of 57.19 per
cent. A 81 per cent loss ratio is salts
factory and consistent with the present
rate structure"
Land damage during 1885, which in
cluded collisions on the ground when
airplanes were taxing increased, due
chiefly to increased airport operations
and the more than 1.500 new student
licenses issued each month.
Concerning life insurance, the COM
Inittee said it lis happy to report con-
tinued and material progress on the
part of the life insurance companies to
recognize the steady advance in the
safety of flying" Recently one of the
major companies offered for sale to