Rating to instruct in flying gliders

(1) An applicant for a rating to give instruction in flying gliders (of which the maximum total weight authorised exceeds 1,250 lbs.) towed by flying machines shall be required– (a) to produce satisfactory evidence that he has carried out not less than four hundred hours’ 202 Civil Aviation flying as pilot in charge of a glider or flying machine, of which – (i) not less than thirty hours’ flying and eighty landings shall have been carried out by him as pilot in charge of a glider; and (ii) not less than twenty-five hours’ flying, including five flights during which a glider has been towed by the flying machine and released therefrom, shall have been carried out by him as pilot in charge of a flying machine; (b) to undergo an oral examination in the subjects of a gliding instructor’s course conducted in accordance with an approved syllabus. (2) In addition, the applicant may be required to undergo a flying test, on a flying machine or a glider towed by a flying machine, or on both, with an approved examiner on board, for the purpose of determining his practical ability to give instruction in flying gliders towed by flying machines, provided that an applicant (i) in whose licence there is included a rating to give instruction in flying flying machines, or (ii) who has qualified as an instructor in flying flying machines or gliders in any of Her Majesty’s air forces may, according to his qualifications and experience, be exempted from all or any of the requirements of this regulation. Such exemption may be made conditional upon the satisfactory completion of a special examination or test. Civil Aviation 203 Captive Balloons, Kites and Moored Airships