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Ensuring safety
of air routes
MELBOURNE.-A major job in ensuring the safety
and efficiency of international passenger flights has been
completed by delegates to the South Pacific conference
of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, now near
ing its conclusion in the Melbourne University.
Delegates on the Rules of the
Air and Air Traffic Services
Committee have reached
agreement on "cutting up"
large spaces of land and sea
hitherto untouched by air
traffic into flight-information
regions, or regions where air
craft are the responsibility of
flight information centres.
Special attention has been
paid to the route covered by
the recently-opened service
between Australia and Johan
nesburg (South Africa), via
Cocos Island. The southern
boundary of the Ceylon flight
information region has been
extended southwards to cover
Cocos Island, so that only a
comparatively small region Ls
left, roughly in the middle of
the Indian Ocean, where the
supply of weather information
and other services to aircraft
crews is not the responsibility
of any flight-information cen
tre. This, however, has been
overcome in practice.
When an aircraft leaves
Perth for South Africa, it
heads north-westerly in reg
ions where the supply of the
necessary data is the respon
sibility of Australian flight
information centres before
passing "out of Australian
hands" and Into the Ceylon
P.I.R.. which now covers
Cocas Island. After departing
from Cocos Island, it soon
leaves the Ceylon F.I.R. and
shortly passes into regions
which are the responsibility
of South Africa.
LAUNCESTON- A man told
a Launceston pollco sergeant
that he lind had 140 beers-but
Inter said that If he was going
to be charged he lind better
make it 139. Scnr.-Const. L.
W. Turner, prosecuting, told
the court this yesterday.
Before Mr. D. T. Oldham.
P.M., was Ronald Alfred Camp
bell, of Pateena, charged with
riding a bicycle while under
the Influence of drink. Ho was
lined £5. with 2/6 costs.
Sgt. K. C. Johnson saw
Campbell having difficulty In
starting off on his bicycle.
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