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Show Flying Easy as Riding Dobbin, Says Bergin " Maneuvering a spin-proof, stall-proof stall-proof plane in midair is as simple as neck-reining a cowpony, Joe Uorgin, director, Utah state aeronautical aero-nautical department, and wing c.immandcr, civil air patrol, divulges. di-vulges. iuudcrn engineering design has produced almost fool-proof planes, and piibr physical requirements particularly vision requirements, have dropped. "Nevertheless, three major obstacles ob-stacles continue to bottleneck the air age," he warned. These are shortage of airports, lack of good transportation from airport to adjacent town, and failure fail-ure of many states (including i Utah's neighbors, Arizona, California Cali-fornia and Nevada) to maintain state aeronautical departments. The long-dreamed-of roadible plane with folding or removable wings for highway use is now believed be-lieved feasible, but until it is on the market, planes must have airfields air-fields on which to land, and these tire usually located two to 20 'miles outside major cities, he pointed out. With the dropping of depth perception per-ception tests from eye requirements require-ments for private pilot's licenses, almost anyone can learn to fly in a few hours. An average beginner who has roared down the runways in a dual control plane, and watched I the instructor smoothly lift the plane into the air, can take eft himself after three duals, but sDends most of his training period learning to land with equal smoothness. smooth-ness. A few persons are temperamentally tempera-mentally unsuited to flying, just as others are tone deaf or baffled by mathematics, but most persons can solo in eight hours. A few have soloed in two hours; others have taken 40 hours dual training before taking a plane aloft alone. Thirty-five hours of solo flying are required to obtain a private pilot's license. Sir.ce pilots are never as foolproof fool-proof as planes, civil aeronautics administration maintains the same strict control over private flying an it does over commercial air traffic. The private flier must renew his physical examination every two years. His plane's engine must be checked every 30 to 50 flying hours (depending upon the model of plane) by a licensed aeroplane and e ngine mechanic, who in turn must puss rigid C A A tests to obtain his license. In addition to the motor check, the private plane itself must be jn-r.peclrd jn-r.peclrd and found airworthy by CAA and must be reinspected every 100 flying hours. While weather and map study r, re not requirements for a private pilot's license, getting lost is much easier in a three-dimension air world than on the ground, and had weather is respected by even the I'.iost expert pilot, said Wing Com-i Com-i lander Bergin. Commander Bergin has author-' author-' od The News to promise short 1-ops over Milford and the sur-lcunding sur-lcunding country to any business men of the town who "would like to see. how easy it is to fly one of the modern planes." |
