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11 Air Com. Bull. 1 (1939)

handle is hein.journals/aicmrcb11 and id is 1 raw text is: U. S. CIVIL AERONAUTICS AUTHORITY Air Commerce Bulletin ISSUED MONTHLY Vol. 11 WASHINGTON, July 15, 1939 No. 1 15,000 PILOTS AUTHORIZED Congress Authorizes $5,675,000 for Pilot-Training Program The Civil Aeronautics Authority's pilot training program was elevated from an experimental to a permanent status on June 27, when the President signed a bill authorizing appropriation of $5,675,000 for the training of approxi- mately 15,000 civil pilots during the 1940 fiscal year. (The Government fiscal year begins July 1 and ends June 30.) President Roosevelt originally recom- mended the sum of $10,000,000 for train- ing 20,000 pilots, but the Budget Bureau and Congress reduced these proposals to the figures above. The final measure also included a stipulation that appro- priations for this purpose in subsequent years was not to exceed $7,000,000 in any 1 year. NON-COLLEGE STUDENTS PROVIDED FOR Amendments added provisos to the House Committee measure prohibiting any discrimination in the selection of trainees because of race, creed, or color, and specified that at least 5 percent of students selected be other than college students. In view of the gratifying success of the experimental program inaugurated last February, the Authority plans to go ahead on substantially the same basis when the school year opens in Sep- tember. As of June 28, less than 5 months since the program began, 330 students at 13 colleges had logged a total flying time of 11,276 hours. Even at that early date, 324 of the 330 had soloed and 228 had successfully completed the course and received private pilots' cer- tificates. The total flying time for each student who had received a certificate ranges from 35 to 40 hours. SAFETY STANDARDS RAISED To establish even higher standards of safety, the Authority, under the ex- panded program will require that planes used for instruction be powered by engines rated at not less than 50 horsepower. Sixty-five of the top students were selected to continue their flying courses in soaring and seaplane operations. At Seattle, Wash., 22 students were scheduled to receive seaplane instruc- tions from the Kurtzer Flying Service and 19 others were to be trained in seaplane flying by E. W. Wiggins Air- ways, Inc., at Boston, Mass. Twelve students each were to be taught gliding and soaring by the Soaring Society of America, Elmira, N. Y., and the Frank- IMPORTANT Discontinuance of Expiration Notices Please turn to page 4, for full details 162324-39-1 1 Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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