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(b) a near visual acuity of Jaeger I in the better eye and Jaeger 8 in the other eye with correcting glasser

[ necessary i

(c) accommodation within a dioptres of the average

for the age:

(d) normal fields of vision.

C. COLOUR PERCEPTION STANDARD).

The measurement of colour perception will be made by means of pseudoisochromatic plates or a suitable lantern. When a lantern is used it will present the light, transmitted by coloured screens lighted at five lus. for one second and seen at a distance of twenty feet in an angle of three minutes.

The applicant shall be required to be able to distinguish easily signal red. signal green and white.

D. HEARING STANDARD.

The applicant shall be required not to have a loss in either ear of more than twenty decibels at any one of the four frequencies, 500, 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000 cycles per second as measured by means of a standard pure tone audiometer in a quiet room. that is, a room in which the intensity level of the background noise is less than fifty decibels as measured by a sound level meter. Alternative means of testing which the Director considers are the equivalent of those detailed will be accepted.

36. (1) An applicant for the grant of a flight radiotelephony experience. operators' restricted licence or a general fight radiotelephony operator's licence shall not be required to furnish evidence of radio experience.

(2) An applicant for the grant of a first class Night radio- telegraphy operator's licence (temporary) shall not be required to furnish evidence of radio experience.

(3) An applicant for the grant of a first class flight radio- telegraphy operator's licence shall be required to furnish the fol- lowing evidence of radio experience-

(i) (a) a minimum of one year's manual radiotelegraphy operating experience, of a kind approved by the Director, in the aeronautical or maritime mobile

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services. Such experience must have been acquired during a period reasonably recent in relation to the application and at least four months of it should normally have been obtained during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of the application; and

(b) satisfactory evidence that he has performed the duties of a temporary Hight radiotelegraphy operator in flight under the provisions of his temporary licence for a minimum period of twenty-five hours during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of the application; or

(ii) satisfactory evidence of such other experience which in the opinion of the Director is of at least the equivalent value to that prescribed in sub-paragraphi (3) above.

37. (1) The period for which a flight radio operator's Poriad for licence may remain in force, following either the grant or any licence renewal thereof, shall not exceed twelve months.

which

may remain in force and renewal of

(2) An applicant for the renewal of a licence shall be re- quired to undergo a medical examination in accordance with licence, regulations 30 to 35, except in the case of an applicant for the renewal of a flight radiotelephony operator's restricted licence or a general fight radiotelephony operator's licence, and may, at the discretion of the Director, be required to undergo all or any part of the technical examination specified for the grant of a licence of the class to which the application relates.

(3) An application for the renewal of a flight radiotelephony operator's restricted licence or a general radiotelephony operator's licence shall be required to furnish evidence of having satisfac- torily carried out radio communication, under the provisions of his licence, during the six months immediately preceding the date of the application.

(4) An applicant for the renewal of a first class flight radio- telegraphy operator's licence shall be required to furnish satisfac- tory evidence of having been actively employed in the performance of appropriate radio operating duties in the aeronautical service for a period of not less than two months during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of the application: