Flying experience

The applicant shall, subject to the provisions of regulation 172 of these Regulations, be required to produce satisfactory evidence that he has had not less than two hundred hours flying experience, of which not less than one hundred hours must have been as a pilot in charge of gliders or flying machines, including not less than thirty hours flying as pilot in charge of a glider, during which the applicant must have carried out eighty take- offs and eighty landings, five of which take-offs and landings must have been made by night. Of these thirty hours flying not less than ten hours must have been carried out during the six months immediately preceding the date of the application, provided that, in the case of an applicant who has passed an approved course of flying training, the said requirement of two hundred hours flying experience may, at the discretion of the Governor, be reduced to one hundred and fifty hours.