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[[underlined]]Tues. 24 april[[underlined]]

   Spent day with mother -
   At Douglas had long talk with two Instrument flight instructors in the B-25 transition school.  They very unhappy because no one is permitted to fly actual instruments.  They feel would be great benefit if even their static personnel could fly actual instruments. - School seemed to be doing good job of hand instruction.
School at Douglas had excellent B-25 wt & bal. section.  They weighed my a/c and put ballast in tail - offered to replace seats if can come back.

   Went to Tucson -

[[underlined]] Wed. 25 April.[[/underlined]]

   Had to wait until about 10 am for Lt. Col/ Gillette - director of training.  He passed me on to Maj. MacIntyre - Pres. of Stand Board. He is former TWA AB 4 eng school student.  He seems to be doing pretty good job.  But all have same old cry - No actual instruments permitted.  Went through B-29 with aerial engineer.
   Discussed operations in 8th with a couple of returned pilots.  They say a method (SOP) for spacing on arrivals permitted let downs about one per minute.  Said never saw any trouble.  Only collision seen was one in CAVV