SAFE FLYING
CROSSING OF COOK STRAIT SYSTEM OF CHECKING (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Friday. So that the air crossing of Cook Strait may be made as safe as possible, a system of cheeking has been arrived at by the Defence, Railway and Meteorological Departments, according to a statement made in the House of Representatives today by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, in his reply in the Local Bodies’ Empowering (Aviation Encouragement) Bill. Any machine crossing Cook Strait, he said, would have to do so at a certain height, probably 6,000 teet. South-bound machines would have to check in at the Paekakariri railway station, where they would drop to 1,000 feet, and give a signal. The time would be noted at the station and forwarded to Wellington. The airmen would check in similarlj at Blenheim, and the reverse procedure would be carried out with a Northbound machine.
With machines flying South by way of the West Coast, the North Island check would be carried out at Pencarrow lighthouse for the time being. The difliculty with Pencarrow lighthouse was that there was not a constant watch kept there. It probably would be advisable to check at. Beacon Hill, near Worser Bay, Wellington, where there was a constant watch.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 738, 10 August 1929, Page 11
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211SAFE FLYING Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 738, 10 August 1929, Page 11
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