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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 15, 1932.
(b) A Royal Aero Club Certificate, if issued on or after the 1st February, 1920, may be accepted in lieu of the passing of the above practical tests, and if issued on or after the 1st November, 1922, may be accepted in lieu of the passing both of the above practical tests and of the above technical examination.
Pilot's Licence for Passenger or Goods Flying Machines ("B Licence").
87. The tests and examination for a pilot's licence to fly flying machines carrying passengers or goods for hire or reward or being flown for any industrial purpose shall be as follows:-
(1) Practical Tests.- In each practical test, except as otherwise specified, the
candidate must be alone in the flying machine.
() The same tests as are required under (1) (a) and (b) of paragraph 86 for a private pilot's licence. Candidates already in possession of the latter licence, or of a Royal Aero Club Certificate issued on or after the 1st February, 1920, are not, however, required to pass these tests again.
(b) A left hand and right hand spin.
(e) Two cross country or oversca flights of at least 200 miles cach.
As regards one of these, the flight shall be made in the same aircraft within eight hours, shall include two obligatory landings (when the machine must come to rest at points, other than the point of departure, fixed beforehand by the examiners) and shall terminate with a landing at the point of departure. During this flight a height of a least 6,500 feet shall be maintained for one hour.
As regards both flights the candidate will at the time of departure be informed of his course and furnished with the appro- priate map.
The examiners will decide whether the course has been correctly followed.
(d) A cross country or oversea flight of at least 200 miles with an examiner on board and including three forced landings at points selected by the examiner.
(e) General flying for about half an hour with an examiner on board and
including five landings.
(f) A night flight of at least thirty minutes made between two hours after sunset and two hours before sunrise at a height of at least 1,500 feet.
(g) A candidate who desires a licence permitting him to fly a type of flying machine equipped with two or more engines will be required to undergo a practical test of his ability to fly and nanoeuvre such a machine with each engine in turn completely throttled down.
(2) Technical Examination.----Candidates will submit themselves when summoned
to examination on :
(a) Flying machines: Theoretical knowledge of the laws of the resis- tance of the air especially as concerns its effects on wings and tail planes, rudders, elevators and airscrews; functions of the different parts of the machine and of their controls.
Assembling of flying machines, propellers, undercarriages, rudders, elevators and their controls.
Practical tests on rigging.
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