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212. Hearing Standard No. 3-The applicant shall be re- quired not to have a loss in either ear of more than forty decibels at any one of the three frequencies, 500, 1,000 and 2,000 cycles per second.

213. Hearing Standard No. 4-The applicant shall be re- quired to be able to hear a conversational voice, using both ears and standing with his back towards the examiner, at a distance of ten feet from the examiner.

PART XI

TOWING.

General.

214. With reference to Article 46 of the Order, application by the holder of a flying machine pilot's licence for a towing rating entitling the holder to fly flying machines towing gliders of which the maximum total weight authorized exceeds 1,250 lb. should be made in writing to the Department of Civil Aviation, Hong Kong.

215. Subject as hereinafter provided, an applicant for a towing rating shall be required to produce evidence of flying experience and undergo tests and examinations as specified in regulation 217.

216. A towing rating shall not authorize the towing of a glider or gliders by more than one flying machine.

Requirements for Grant of Towing Rating-

217. (1) An applicant for a towing rating must be the holder of a commercial, senior commercial or airline transport pilot's licence (flying machines), granted under the provisions of the Order.

(2) The applicam shall be required to satisfy the require- ments as to flying experience and undergo tests and examination as specified in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) below.

(a) Flying Experience.

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The applicant shall be required to produce satisfac- tory evidence that he has, during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of the application, carried

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() as pilot in charge of a flying machine towing a glider, not less than five hours' dying, including at least ten flights, not less than three of which shall have been carried out at night; and

(ii) as pilot in charge of a glider towed by a flying machine and released therefrom, not less than three hours' flying, including at least ten flights, one of which shall have been carried out at night.

(b) Practical Flying Tests.

Two flights as pilot in charge of a flying machine, of a type included in Group I of the aircraft rating of the applicant's licence, towing one or more gliders, during each of which flights the applicant shall, in accordance with a plan arranged beforehand, fly to the position where the glider or gliders are to be released. and after such release, drop the tow rope within the assigned area and land the flying machine at the assigned place.

In respect of one of these flights the total weight of the glider or gliders shall approximate to the maximum weight which the flying machine may be permitted to tow in the circumstances of the flight. The other flight shall be carried out at night and the position of release shall be when the flying machine is down wind of the place at which the glider or gliders are to land and is flying across wind at a suitable height above the level of that place.

The tests shall be subject to the following condi- tions-

() The tests may be carried out in any order; (ii) the tests shall be witnessed or conducted, as the case requires, by properly accredited examiners who shall deposit their reports with the appropriate authorities. The reports shall give full details of the flights, and in particular, of the landings; and