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) at least two months’ service in an airship in the capacity of a pilot holding an airship pilot’s licence, second class; and (b) at least five flights in the capacity of a pilot holding an airship pilot’s licence, second class, in an airship of greater capacity than 700,000 cubic feet, on which he handled the airship himself, under 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. Each flight must have been of at least one hour’s duration with a minimum of fifteen hours for the five flights.