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and are opening a new 212 acre Glider Port on the Virginia side of the Potomac which will be used exclusively for Glider purposes. Their ground school is conducted in the physics laboratory of the School of Engineering at the George Washington University.

[[underlined]] Department of Commerce Conference on Glider Regulations [[/underlined]]

This meeting was held under the auspices of the Department of Commerce and N. G. A. Those present were: Prof. Peter Altman, University of Detroit presided, Mr. Gilbert Budwig, Inspector Meadows of the Department of Commerce, pilots and officials of the Second Annual Gliding and Soaring Contest. The purpose of the meeting was to present suggestions from the pilots and official to the representatives of the Department of Commerce.

Mr. Budwig opened the meeting with an explanation of the medical examination required of all pilots receiving their licenses stating that glider pilots as well as other pilots must pay a $10.00 fee for the proper examination. Glider Schools may have their student examined by a competent doctor. This would be a step forward toward the safety of gliding and soaring.

Mr. L.F. Ross opened the discussion for the pilots and officials with the suggestion that primary gliders should be eliminated. The discussion on this topic brought out that the German Primary Glider was a correct design and had been operated successfully on the hills in Germany, but were only successful in America when used with German methods.

There was discussion also along the lines of whether combinated [[combined]] primary and secondary glider thru renovating a primary glider into a secondary glider was practical. The majority opinion was that until such a time as the primary glider could be properly designed and proven on the American terrain that they should not be allowed to be used. This was brought out by the fact that there are too many primary gliders made by what might be termed "back yard builders". There seems nothing to prevent anyone from selling blueprints of primary gliders and that unless they are made by competent  authority these gliders should not be allowed to be used. This resolved itself in the fact that rules of design are not strong enough. 

The only check which the Department of Commerce has on these at the present time is the approved type certificate made out by the manufacturing concern and checked by the Department.

[[underlined]] Schools [[/underlined]]

The matter of schools was brought out in a very forceful way with a suggestion that they should be "approved" schools with a licensed instructor. These schools should be able to train with both primary and secondary gliders of a proper design. The discussion went far enough to ask for the licensing of such schools and the licensing of all instructors. The Department of Commerce seemed to have no objection to this step.

Other suggestions were that the history should be known as to whether the instructor has had repeated accidents under his method of training. Types of licenses that these instructor should carry fall under the following classes, instructor for soaring; and instructor for selling purposes or in other words a demonstrator for a factory.

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