CIVIL AVIATION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 547, 2 June 1933, Page 5

CIVIL AVIATION

(Press Assn.-

NEW REGULATIONS STUNTING AND ACROBATICS PROHIBITED OVER TOWNS SAFETY PRE C AUTIONS

-By T elegraph — Copyright) .

Wellington, Thursday. Regulations under the Air Navigation Act, gazetted '-.to-night, dealt 1 f ully with the registration and qualifications in the case of both machin'es and their personnel. Provision is made for the carriage of a qualified navigator as part. of the personnel of passenger aircraft engaged in international flying. The following general safety provisions ' are included : No person shall fly an air craft ' in any city or town in New Zealand except at such altitude as will enJable the craft to land outside the I city or town, should the- means of propulsion fail through meclianical !breakdown or other cause, provided that this provision shall not apply to' any area comprised within a radius ' of one mile from the centre of the licensed aerodrome or New Zealand Air Force aerodrome. Air craft in or over New Zealand ■ shall not (a) he used hy any per- ; son to carry out any acrobatic or exhibition of flying over any city or town or populous district, (b) be used by any person to carry out I'aerobatics or exhibitions of flying ' over any regatta, race meeting or meeting for public games or sport, except where specially provided by the Controller of Civil Aviation, (c) ; be flown by any person in such circumstances as by reason of the low altitude or proximity of persons or : for any other reason to cause unnecessary damage to any person or property on land or water. No person shall smoke in any aircraft registered in New Zealand unless permitted by a notice exhibited by the owner of the air craft. Other provisions are as follows: — ,No person shall make a parachute descent from an air craft unless he has previously obtained permission from the Controller of Civil Aviation. There shall be carried when flying, such instruments and equipment ap- ' plicable to the class or description of air craft as described. Every air craft capable of carrying 10 or more persons, including the crew, shall when carrying passengers or goods for hire or reward, carry apparatus for radio communication, capable of sending •'either morse or spoken messages. Notification of Accidents The regulations provide for the notification of an accident, and empower the Minister to set up a board of inquiry to investigate accidents. Rules as to lights and day markings are detailed, and signals can be used or displayed by any air craft in distress as prescribed. The general rules for air traffic stipulate that air machines must give way to balloons, gliders, etc. Other rules are that when two motor driven air crafts are on courses which cross, the "air craft which has the other on its right shall keep out of the way of the other. When two mechanically driven are met end on or nearly end on, each shall alter its course to the right. An air craft overtaking another shall keep out of the way of the overtaken air craft by altering its own course to the right, and must not pass by diving. An air craft about to descend shall not attempt to take off until there is no risk of collision with an alighting air craft.