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COMMERCIAL PILOT'S LICENCE (FLYING MACHINES).

Age of Applicant and Period of Licence,

84. An applicant for the grant of a commercial pilot's licence (flying machines) must be not less than 18 years of age.

95. The period for which a licence may remain in force, following either the grant or any renewal thereof, shall not excced six months.

Aircraft Rating.

06. The aircraft rating included in the licence shall specify, in Group and Group 2 thereof, the type or types of By- ing machines which, subject to regulation 97, the holder of the licence is entitled to fly as pilot in charge and as second pilot respectively.

Group 2 shall include all the types of flying machines which are entered in Group 1 and such other types as may be specified,

Privileges attaching to Licence.

97. The holder of the licence shall be entitled to Ay-

(i) as pilot in charge of-

(a) any public transport flying machine of which the maximum cocal weight authorized does not exceed 12,500 lb. and which is not employed on a scheduled journey; and

(b) if the licence includes an instrument rating, any public transport flying machine of which the maximum total weight authorized does not exceed 12,500 lb.; and

(c) any acrial work flying machine; and (d) any private flying machine;

which is of the same type as a flying machine specified in Group 1 of the aircraft rating of the licence; and

(e) any private aeroplane the maximum total weight authorized of which does not exceed 12,500 lb. if an aeroplane of the same class is specified in Group 1 of the aircraft rating of the licences

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Provided that the holder of the licence shall not (except in a case where he is a person entitled by virtue of a rating included in the licence to act as instructor or as assistant instructor in the flying of flying machines and is flying for the purpose of so acting) be entitled to act as pilot in charge of a flying machine carrying pas- sengers on a flight made by night, unless he has. within the immediately preceding 90 days, carried out as pilot in charge of a flying machine not less than 5 take-offs and 5 landings by night; and

(ii) as second pilot of

(a) any public transport flying machine carrying

passengers;

(b) any public transport flying machine not carrying

passengers;

(c) any acrial work flying machine; and

(d) any private flying machine;

which, as respects (a), is of the same type, and, as respects (b), (c) and (d), is of the same class, as a flying machine specified in Group 2 of the aircraft rating of the licence.

Technical Requirements for Grant of Licence. Flying Experience.

98. An applicant for the grant of a licence shall, subject to the provisions of regulation 102, be required to produce satis- factory evidence that he has had not less than 200 hours' experience in flying flying machines, comprising

(a) flying training under a competent instructor in a dual- controlled Aying machine, not less than 10 hours of which must have been instruction in instrument flying; (b) flying as pilot in charge for not less than 100 hours,

including

(i) at least zo hours' cross-country or oversea flying, including one flight of at least 300 nautical miles during which the flying machine must have landed and come to rest at two intermediate places;