Flying experience technical requirements for grant of licence

An applicant for the grant of a licence shall, subject to the provisions of regulation 100 of these Regulations, be required to produce satisfactory evidence that he has not less than two hundred hours’ experience in flying machines, comprising – (a) flying training under a competent instructor in a dual controlled flying machine, not less than ten hours of which must have been instruction in instrument flying; (b) flying as pilot in charge for not less than one hundred hours, including – (i) at least twenty hours’ cross-country or oversea flying, including one flight of at least three hundred nautical miles during which the flying machine must Civil Aviation 129 have landed and come to rest at two intermediate places; (ii) at least ten hours’ flying (five hours of which, however, may have been carried out under instruction), during which the applicant must have carried out ten take-offs and ten landings by night without assistance from any other person on board the flying machine; and (iii) at least ten hours’ flying carried out during the six months immediately preceding the date of the application; and (c) a reasonable amount of flying experience as pilot on the type of flying machine to which the application relates, provided that – (i) 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; (ii) flying experience as second pilot may be reckoned towards the total requirement of two hundred hours (or one hundred and fifty hours) to the extent that one half of such flying, up to a maximum allowance of fifty hours, may be included if it was carried out on (a) flying machines required under the Order or these Regulations to have on board more than one pilot, or (b) 130 Civil Aviation which normally carried more than one pilot.