Flying experience and practical tests

The applicant shall be required to produce satisfactory evidence that he has had reasonable flying experience as a pilot of airships during the two years immediately preceding the date of the application, and that he has completed – (a) twenty flights (three of which must have been made by night) in an airship, each flight having been of at least one hour’s duration. On at least four of these flights the applicant must have handled the airship himself, under Civil Aviation 149 the supervision of the person in command of the airship, including departure and landing, during the whole flight if the duration thereof did not exceed four hours, and during at least four hours if the flight was of longer duration; and (b) one flight on a predetermined course of at least seventy miles, terminating with a night landing, and made with a properly accredited examiner on board.