Technical requirements for grant of licence

An applicant for the grant of a licence shall be required to produce satisfactory evidence that he has had not less than fifty hours’ experience as a pilot of flying machines, comprising – (a) flying training under a competent instructor in a dual controlled flying machine; and (b) at least ten hours’ flying as pilot in charge, not less than three hours of which must have been cross-country flying carried out within the six months immediately preceding the date of the application, and must have included one flight on a triangular course during which the flying machine landed and came to rest at two intermediate places, one being not less than fifty nautical miles from the place of departure– (i) in the case of an applicant who has experience in the flying of gliders the foregoing excepting those in respect of cross-country flying may be reduced to such extent as the Governor may consider appropriate in the particular case; and (ii) in the case of an applicant who has passed an approved course of flying training the said requirement of fifty hours’ flying may be reduced to thirty hours. Civil Aviation 123