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natural one when it is considered that many of the Forestry Stations in the 

 Eastern District are on useable roads reaching into the forested areas. 



(c) Requisitions and Flights Performed: 



It will be noticed in the tables dealing with the distribution of machine 

 days, that 2,670 requisitions for flights were issued, and that the number 

 of machine days operated is 2,374. The relation of these two figures, however, 

 does not give an adequate gauge of the operational efficiency. It is necessary 

 to take into account the weather factor, since there are occasions when weather 

 prevents even the starting of a flight which has already been requisitioned. 

 The relation between flights requisitioned and flights completed uninterrupted 

 is more nearly a correct measure ot the efficiency of the Air Service. It will be 

 noticed that the figure of efficiency of the Service, in the Table VII which 

 follows, for this relation, is 98.8%. 



(d) Loadings of Transport Section: 



From a comparison of the loading tables for the Transport Section, it will 

 be seen that the performance during the season 1933 shows a substantial 

 improvement over that in 1932. A closer study of performance against 

 gasoline consumed shows that there was an average of forty pounds of freight 

 moved over the radius of an hour's flight for every gallon of gasoline consumed. 

 Table IX shows the Transport Section loadings for the 1933 season. 



TABLE VI— OPERATIONS STATISTICS, 1933 

 MACHINE DAYS 



