Flying experience

The applicant shall, subject to the provisions of regulation 112 of these Regulations, be required to produce satisfactory evidence that he has had not less than seven hundred hours’ experience as pilot in flying machines comprising– (a) not less than two hundred hours’ experience as pilot in charge of flying machines, including 134 Civil Aviation (i) at least fifty hours’ cross-country or oversea flying; (ii) at least fifteen hours’ flying by night and in addition at least ten hours’ cross- country or oversea flying either by night or solely by reference to instruments; and (iii) at least ten hours’ flying carried out during the six months immediately preceding the date of the application; and (b) a reasonable amount of flying experience as pilot on the type of flying machine to which the application relates, provided that– (i) flying experience as second pilot may be reckoned towards the total requirement of seven hundred hours to the extent that one half of such flying may be included if it was carried out on (A) flying machines required under the Order or these Regulations to have on board more than one pilot; or (B) military flying machines which normally carried more than one pilot; and (ii) no evidence of flying solely by reference to instruments produced in order to obtain an instrument rating Civil Aviation 135 shall be taken into account for the purposes of this regulation.