Smyrna times., 1941-10-02
NAVIGATION
COURSE GIVEN
War Department Offering In
structiOn in Aerial
Navigation
SAME PAY AS CADETS

The War Department is offering
to young men, who meet the pre-
scribed requirements, a course of
training to qualify them as aerial
navigation officers. Instruction will
be given in schools under Army su-
pervision but will include no pilot
training. The status, as well as
pay and allowances, etc., of cadets
undergoing this specialized nom
pilot training in navigation is the
same as that for cadets receiving
pilot training. They are designat
ed "Flying Cadet" and, upon salts
factory completion of the course,
as well as an additional period of
training with tactical or other Air
Corps units, are eligible for COM
missions as End Lieutenants, Air
Reserve. The entire training per-
iod will cover approximately nine
months. Applicants for this course
must meet the general require
ments for appointment as flying
cadet. They must be unmarried
citizens of the United States be-
tween the ages of twenty and
twenty-six inclusive, of good char
acter, sound physique, and in excel
lent health. The training as NAV
igator" is designed to qualify can
didates as navigator-gunner men,
bers of combat crews. Students
will first undergo instruction in an
aerial gunnery school. This will
be followed by a course in naviga-
ton, attention being given, among
other subjects, to day and night
navigation flights, the use of in
struments, maps and charts, dead
reckoning procedure and problems,
and celestial navigation theory.
Educational Qualifications
1st Priority Classification Grad
yates of accredited colleges and
universities who have received
degree in Engineering
2nd Priority Classification: Grad
yates of accredited colleges and
universities who have had, as a
minimum, mathematics to include
Plane Geometry, College Algebra
and Trigonometry. In addition, ap-
plicants are preferred who have
had mathematics to include An
alytical Geometry, Spherical Trig-
onomery, and Differential and In
tegral Calculus.
3rd Priority Classification: Those
who have satisfactorily completed
two years of accredited college
work and who have had the mathe-
mates outlined in the End Priority
Classification above.
In all cases consideration will be
given to the quality of the appli-
cant's collegiate scholastic record.
Physical Requirements
The physical requirements are
somewhat less rigid than those re-
quired for pilot training insofar as
the requirement reference visual
acuity are concerned: however, in
general the high physical standards
now applicable to flying cadets
(pilot) must be met. Applicants
for this training are required to
have a visual acuity of 20-40, in
each eye, correctible to 20-20 in
both eyes.
While undergoing traing, the fly
ing cadet receives SIS per month
and 81 per day ration allowance
which is turned into general mess
fund. When the cadet graduates
and is commissioned End Lieuten-
ant, Air Reserve, he receives $125
per month base pay, plus S62.50
flight pay (Which is so per cent of
the base pay, plus S18 per month
ration allowance. Those officers
who reside away from the post are
given a rental allowance of $40 per
month.
Travel to Air Corps schools may