Show LINDY WARNS AIR SCHOOLS HOLD MENAGE MENACE fOR AVIATION i Dau Danger er Lies in Improper I Training Training- of Y YOung Pilots MORE lORE MEN IEN NEEDED Strict Regulation By Commerce Department Is Advocated Copyright by The Associated Press NEW YORK Nov By The As- As Associated Press Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh has responded to a re- re request request quest by The AssocIated Press that he wrIte hIs Impressions of aviation In America and Us Its future based upon hIs observations during his recent unique flying tour of the United StateS Stales un- un under under der the auspices of U the e DanIel q g- g fund for the promotion aeronautics In Colonel Lindbergh's statement he stresses the menace to aviation caused by Improper schooLs and their product of inexperienced fliers he urges the regulation of all hying ac- ac tI by the department of corn com commerce merce mci-ce and further regulations to pro pro- promote promote mote the factor of safety In the air LI DYS TE ST. His statement follows One of oc the gravest problems facing the advance of aviation Is Ie per per- flying Is safe today but It must be combined wIth training and experience We have not reached the stage In the development of aircraft where the pilot plays a minor part In Inthe inthe the operation of an aeroplane and un- un Ul UI we progress to that stage It Is es- es essential essential to save trained and experienced operators for safe flying Thousands of miles are flown each clay over the airways of America with witha a record of which any ground trans trans- company might be proud S SAFE It has been strikingly demonstrated boUt both In AmerIca and In Europe that there need be no fear for p personal safety In traveling with modern equipment over orgal airways There Is another phase of cal nia aviation on however h Is In In need of regulation are re dot enough pilots to meet thc increasing demand for theil- theil services sea New men must be trained and schools have ha been established for their trainIng In these lies the menace confronting avi- avi aviation Young America wants to fly and Is 15 goIng to fly Thousands of young men are entering and preparing to enter schools Most Mos t them ha e limited fInances and consequently must enter n a school which which has has a small tu- tu tuItion tuition fee DANGERS D. NOTED Unfortunately there are many of these Institutions operating today and often graduating students st dents with less than ten hours of flying training These graduates must find some way to continue flying and since e th they y hue be mon y enough to r rent nt or or buy a plane they must also earn at least their expenses as they fly This situation results In Inexperienced pilots carrying passengers for hire often under adverse conditions In flights which really should be under supervision as part of their training Even ven If an accident Is averted dur- dur durIng during Ing the first b hundred or two hundred hours the pilot Un lacks much of oft t the e knowledge anI and technIque of the theart theart art of flying firing which have ha been learned during the period rEW FE We have surprisingly few accidents on Our I airplanes and with our ex- ex experienced operators but we read only too often of crashes which uon unon In- In Investigation are found In almost every Instance to have resulted from Inex- Inex Inexperience inexperience and lack of Judgment on n the part of the pilot Apparently the only method of combating the existing situation Is first through regulation of flying schools and second through regula- regula and the requIred of a pilot engaging in commercial fly fly- flyIng flying Ing and especially In passenger carry carry- The department of commerce through the bureau of aeronautics Is regula regulating ling interstate flying very ery sue sue- successfully but It has op control over flying within Individual sta stae el and of course the student pilot confines himself to the borders of his own state during his most most dangerous period J INCREASiNG SAFETY So During the two and a half of its Ils experience aviation ls is going toward ever increasing safety The next will come through of air activities Including certain mInimum require ments of flying school courses but b fore extensive regulation can be- be become become come effective the department of corn com commerce merce must be given the right to regulate all flying activities Instead of interstate traffic traffie only Either through feder federal l or Individual ual state action w are In need of uniform flying throughout the union A number of tale ales hue have adopted the department of oC commerce regula- regula but the majority have gither no regulation Uon whatsoever or have enacted special pedal rules which will In the end only serve to retard aeronautical de- de I say this in the Interest of the safety of the men who want to tobe tobe be pilots and of those Of Cf our people who want ant to fly harle A A. |