Flying experience

An applicant shall, subject to the provisions of regulation 124 of these Regulations, be required to produce satisfactory evidence that he has had not less than one thousand and two hundred hours’ experience as a pilot flying machines, comprising– (a) at the least one hundred hours night flying; Civil Aviation 139 (b) at least two hundred and fifty hours flying as pilot in charge, of which not less than ten hours must have been carried out during the six months immediately preceding the date of the application, and including not less than one hundred hours cross-country or oversea flying of which not less than twenty-five hours must have been flown by night; (c) at least seventy-five hours flying solely by reference to instruments which must have been carried out by the applicant without assistance from any other person on board the (d) a reasonable amount of flying on the type of flying machine to which the application relates; (e) at least two hundred hours cross-country or overseas flying as second pilot in flying machines required under the Order or these Regulations to have on board more than one pilot, or in military flying machines which normally carried more than one pilot, provided that– (i) flying experience as second pilot may be reckoned towards the total requirement of one thousand and two hundred hours to the extent that one half of such flying may be included if it was carried out in flying machines (a), required under the Order or these Regulations to have on board more than one pilot, or (b), in military flying machines which normally carried more than one pilot; 140 Civil Aviation (ii) an applicant who has not less than two hundred hours’ experience as pilot in charge on cross-country or oversea flights may be exempted from the requirement specified at (e) in this paragraph; (iii) training in instrument flying carried out on the ground in approved devices may, at the discretion of the Governor, up to a maximum of twenty-five hours, be accepted in part satisfaction of the requirement specified at (c) in this paragraph.