Flying experience

The applicant shall, subject to the provisions of regulation 180 of these Regulations, be required to produce satisfactory evidence that he has Civil Aviation 159 (a) carried out in the capacity of flight navigator not less than two hundred hours’ cross- country flying, fifty hours of which must have been carried out during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of the application, and including not less than fifty hours’ night flying; and (b) made during flight not less than twenty-five celestial observations by day and not less than twenty-five celestial observations by night and has applied the results of such observations to the navigation of the aircraft, provided that, at the discretion of the Governor – (a) in the case of an applicant who has passed an approved course of training as a flight navigator, the requirements as to flying experience specified at (a) above may be reduced to such extent as the Governor may think fit; (b) in the case of an applicant who has had flying experience as a pilot of public transport aircraft, one half of such experience, up to a minimum of one hundred hours, may be reckoned towards the said requirement of two hundred hours flying.