Pilot Safety, May 22, 1939
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Pilot Safety, May 22, 1939
This was on the back of IFR magazine and thought I'd share. Excuse the formatting. I guess there might have been a war or something back then.
CONFIDENTIAL
WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF HE CHIEF OF THE AIR CORPS
WASHINGTON
SUBJECT: Flying Status for Flying Safety
TO: Brig. General Arnold N. Krogstad, A.G.
1. The Chief of the Air Corps is deeply concerned that senior and older pilots take no unnecessary flying risks and thus jeopardize their valuable experience to the Air Corps.
2. To this end he has directed the classification of all pilots over forty-seven years of age into a group where they will not be required to pilot at night, to lead or drill with pursuit formations, to fly single seater aircraft, or to do any other types of particularly hazardous piloting where the natural and understandable deprecations coincident with age may render them less fit than men of younger years. He believes that there should be absolutely no evidence of any competition in piloting among men of higher rank and older age. there is no necessity and no justification for the feeling on the par of a senior officer that he must continue to pile up as much pilot time, or to pilot as skillfully as he did in his earlier years, or as well as younger pilots do.
3. Your particular attention is directed to the revision of War Department Circular 26 and to the minimum requirements set up in Circular 50-12, O.C.A.C. Every senior Air Corps Officer must use the soundest judgment at all times as to the types of flying performed and as to when, ho, and where to fly, after a careful analysis of tactical situations and weather conditions. Officers in the command pilot group my fly as co-pilots or command pilots in meeting their flying requirements.
4. It is desired that you be accompanied by another pilot on all military flights.
H.H. Arnold,
Major General, Air Corps
Chief of the Air Corps
CONFIDENTIAL
WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF HE CHIEF OF THE AIR CORPS
WASHINGTON
SUBJECT: Flying Status for Flying Safety
TO: Brig. General Arnold N. Krogstad, A.G.
1. The Chief of the Air Corps is deeply concerned that senior and older pilots take no unnecessary flying risks and thus jeopardize their valuable experience to the Air Corps.
2. To this end he has directed the classification of all pilots over forty-seven years of age into a group where they will not be required to pilot at night, to lead or drill with pursuit formations, to fly single seater aircraft, or to do any other types of particularly hazardous piloting where the natural and understandable deprecations coincident with age may render them less fit than men of younger years. He believes that there should be absolutely no evidence of any competition in piloting among men of higher rank and older age. there is no necessity and no justification for the feeling on the par of a senior officer that he must continue to pile up as much pilot time, or to pilot as skillfully as he did in his earlier years, or as well as younger pilots do.
3. Your particular attention is directed to the revision of War Department Circular 26 and to the minimum requirements set up in Circular 50-12, O.C.A.C. Every senior Air Corps Officer must use the soundest judgment at all times as to the types of flying performed and as to when, ho, and where to fly, after a careful analysis of tactical situations and weather conditions. Officers in the command pilot group my fly as co-pilots or command pilots in meeting their flying requirements.
4. It is desired that you be accompanied by another pilot on all military flights.
H.H. Arnold,
Major General, Air Corps
Chief of the Air Corps
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