R.N.Z.A.F.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 110, 26 May 1941, Page 5

R.N.Z.A.F.

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS

The Director of Education Services points, out that all men selected for the air crew are now required to satisfactorily co'*rhplete : the preliminary fedueational course; owing first to the fact that it brings them up to, the- necessary "standard in mathematics and elementary science if they were at the outset below this standard, and secondly, -to the fact that the course includes many matters, such as elementary air navigation, theory of flight, map projections and meteorology,; which are included in the course at the Ground Training School and which aid the work being done at that station. Those men listed in the pass lists are men who have been selected provisionally Pol* the air crew either as airmen pilots, air observers or air gunners. The fact tlisit they have now passed this preliminary educational test means that, if medically fit, they Mill be posted" to the Ground Training School at Levin, within the next few weeks for-train-ing as airmen pilots, air observers or air gunners. Air Force preliminary tests are held some six or seven times a year on the completion of each course of instruction. No. 6 Air Force Preliminary Education Course commenced on Monday, May 12, and most of the men interviewed within the last few weeks have been posted to thai course. No. 7 course will commence on Monday, June 30.