1955-HKRS30-8-45_Part05 — Page 49

Privileges attaching to Licence.

146. (a) A third class licence shall entitle the holder to fly as pilot in charge of any airship the capacity of which is less than 200,000 cubic feel.

(b) A second class licence shall entitle the holder to fly as pilot in charge of any airship the capacity of which is less than 700,000 cubic feet.

(c) A first class licence shall entitle the bolder to fly as pilot

in charge of any airship.

Technical requirements for Grant of Licence. Third Class Licence,

147, An applicant for the grant of a third class licence must be the holder of a balloon pilot's licence, private or commercial, and of a fight navigator's licence.

Flying Experience and Practical Tests.

148. The applicant shall be required to produce satisfactory evidence that he has had reasonable flying experience as a pilot of airships during the two years immediately preceding the date of the application, and that he has completed-

(a) twenty flights (three of which must have been made by night) in an airship, each flight having been of at least one hour's duration. On at least four of these flights the applicant must have handled the airship himself, under the supervision of the person in command of the airship, including departure and landing, during the whole flight if the duration thereof did not exceed four hours, and during at least four hours if the flight was of longer duration; and

(6) one flight on a predetermined course of at least seventy miles, terminating with a night landing, and made with a properly accredited examiner on board.

Technical Examination.

149. The applicant shall, subject to the provisions of regula- tion 159, be required to undergo an examination (including practical tests) as to his knowledge of the following subjects—

(4) aerostatics; density of gases, laws of Mariotte and 'Gay- Lussac; barometric pressure, Archimedes principle: confinement of gases:

(b) physical and chemical properties of light gases, and of

materials used in the construction of airships;

(c) general theory of airships;

(d) dynamic properties of moving bodies in air;

(e) elementary knowledge of internal combustion engines:

and

() Inflation; stowage; rigging; handling: controls and

instruments.

Flying Experience for Renewal of Licence.

150. An applicant for the renewal of a licence shall be required to produce satisfactory evidence that he has had reason- able flying experience as a pilot of airships during the two years immediately preceding the date of the application. In default of such evidence the applicant may be required to undergo all or any part of the practical flying tests and technical examination specified for the grant of a licence, as the Director may consider appropriate in the circumstances of the case.

Second Class Licence.

151. An applicant for the grant of a second class licence must be the holder of a balloon pilot's licence, private or commercial. and of a flight navigator's licence.

Flying Experience and Practical Tests.

152. The applicant shall be required to produce satisfactory evidence that he has had reasonable fying experience as a pilot of airships during the two years immediately preceding the date of the application, and that he has completed—

(c) at least four months' service on an airship in the capacity of a pilot holding an airship pilot's licence, third class; and