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The Bank of New Zealand introduced EFTPOS to New Zealand in 1985 through a pilot scheme with petrol stations.
In June 1999 the section of the third lane ( the lane nearest the central reservation ) between junctions 2 and 3 was converted to a bus lane and opened as a pilot scheme.
Under pressure from the SSP and the wider campaign, the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) introduced free school meals as a pilot scheme for a small number of primary school pupils in selected local authorities and have announced that there will be free school meals for Primary 1-3 children from 2010, however have not backed the wholesale change that the SSP proposed.
It was extended several times before being replaced by Area C, a conventional congestion pricing scheme covering the same geographic area in January 2012 as an 18-month pilot.
The pilot scheme includes one country each from Melanesia ( Vanuatu ), Polynesia ( Tonga ) and Micronesia ( Kiribati ): countries which already send workers to New Zealand under its seasonal labour scheme.
Australia ’ s pilot scheme also includes Papua New Guinea.
Active Traffic Management ( ATM ) was launched as a pilot scheme on the M42 operating between junction 3a and 7 with mandatory variable speed limits, hard shoulder running, better driver information signs and a new incident management system.
For over 25 years the Super Chipmunk in its distinctive bright color scheme of blue stars and sunburst effect was displayed by the aerobatic pilot Art Scholl.
In 2011 Eircom announced that they would invest € 100 million on high speed fibre optic lines which would be delivered as a pilot scheme to customers in Dublin and Wexford and the speeds will be 150Mbit / s the fastest in Ireland.
In November 2005, the Director of Public Prosecutions reported that a pilot scheme was being introduced where the CPS would be allowed to interview witnesses before taking a case to trial.
The pilot scheme took place in Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester between January 2006 and February 2007.
Until recently, on Sundays, as part of a pilot scheme, a gas-powered Parry People Mover operated on the line.
In 2010 / 11, McIntosh has been campaigning for the reopening of Ryedale Ward at Malton Hospital following its temporary closure as part of a pilot scheme.
In December 2009, the force announced a three-month pilot scheme to arm officers at the station, as well as in London and Manchester, with stun guns.
Following the British Railways Modernisation Plan, ten of the class were ordered for evaluation under the ' pilot scheme '.
Under British Railways ' ' pilot scheme ', ten locomotives were ordered for evaluation against rival designs from British Thompson-Houston ( Class 15 ) and English Electric ( Class 20 ).
* Air industry staff ( compulsory ) ( cancelled ) – a pilot scheme involving compulsory IDs for 30, 000 air industry staff, planned to start in September 2009 at Manchester and London City airports, was cancelled in June 2009, after substantial opposition from unions.
* Greater Manchester residents ( voluntary ) – a pilot scheme open to all residents of Greater Manchester, from October 2009 ; which was expanded to Merseyside then the rest of the North-West in early 2010.
* Air industry staff ( voluntary ) – a pilot scheme involving free, voluntary ID cards for airside workers, began in November 2009 until the programme's cancellation at Manchester and London City airports.
* London residents ( voluntary ) – was a planned pilot scheme in 2010 open to all residents of London
In 2006, she quit the Frontier and became the chairperson of the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor and the co-convener of Project Civil Referendum, a scheme to pilot and promote the idea of holding a referendum in Hong Kong.
The scheme was introduced in four pilot areas of England and Wales in September 2008.
The main aim of the pilot schemes was “ to enable an accurate estimate to be made of the resources that would be needed to extend the scheme across the whole of England ” ( DNH 1997 ).
A Finds Liaison Officer ( FLO ) was put in place as part of each pilot scheme.

pilot and locomotives
In the later days of steam locomotives, the front coupler was designed to swing out of the way also, so it could not get caught up ; this was called a drop coupler pilot.
Early shunting locomotives often had a pilot with steps on it to allow yard workers to ride on the locomotive ; these were called footboard pilots.
Modern US diesel locomotives have flatter, less wedge shaped pilots ; this is because a diesel locomotive has the cab near the front, and the crew are vulnerable to impact from obstacles pushed up by the pilot.
As in the United States, European 0-6-0 locomotives were largely restricted to switching and station pilot duties, though they were also widely used on short branch lines to haul passenger and freight trains.
Despite the construction of two demonstration locomotives ( D0260 LION, produced by AEI and BRC & W using a Sulzer engine, and D0280 FALCON, built by Brush Traction using Maybach engines ), the need for a large number of locomotives quickly was deemed paramount, and the pilot build of what would become Class 47 began before the prototypes could be comprehensively assessed.
The first locomotives to be targeted were the non-standard pilot batch of 20, now numbered 47401-47420.
The Midland Railway had a policy of using small engines only, and on the steeply-graded Settle and Carlisle line, this required frequent double-heading ( two locomotives coupled together to operate a single train ) or the use of pilot engines to assist engines in pulling trains up to Ais Gill at the summit of the line.
The locomotives were used on yard pilot and transfer freight duties, although number 1000 hauled a freight train from Dublin to Cork during trials.
The walkways and running boards seen on American locomotives that sometimes give an appearance of a footplate are attached to the boiler or the pilot and are not structural elements.
Locomotive No. 1 was given a big spark arresting diamond stack of wood-burning locomotives and a large, pointed pilot ( cowcatcher ) representing a workhorse used to construct a railroad while the flagship No. 2 was given a straight stack and smaller pilot common to East Coast coal-burning locomotives representing highball speed of express passenger service on smooth straight rails.
Original Hinkley locomotives # 1-2 were replaced by # 5-6 of an improved design with pilot wheels.
The shunting of trains across the layout at the west end of the station has long been a Taunton feature ; in the days of trains to Minehead, Barnstaple, and local stations to Exeter, terminating trains were drawn back from the up side platforms via various sidings, and then returned to the down side departure platforms, and pilot locomotives were provided to assist in the days of hauled stock.
Following problems with the single-cabbed pilot scheme Type 1 locomotives, the Class 17s were designed with a centre cab and low bonnets to maximise visibility for the driver.
Under the British Railways Modernisation Plan, a batch of ten diesel-electric locomotives were ordered from the North British Locomotive Co. for evaluation under BR's dieselisation pilot scheme.

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Other pilot programs were conducted by A & S, Babylon, New York ; ;
Sometimes the pilot had to turn back if fully blocked by fog, but 85% of his trips were completed.
Aircraft were getting progressively more displays, dials and information dashboards that eventually competed for space and pilot attention.
The mixed results were a combination of reliability problems ( exacerbated by the tropical climate ), limited pilot training in fighter-to-fighter combat, and restrictive rules of engagement that generally prohibited BVR ( beyond visual range ) engagements.
The pilot or Radar Intercept Officer ( RIO ) could then launch the AIM-54 Phoenix missiles when launch parameters were met.
The large Tactical Information Display ( TID ) in the RIO's cockpit gave an unprecedented amount of information to the aircrew ( the pilot had the ability to monitor the RIO's display ) and, importantly, the AWG-9 could continually search and track multiple targets after Phoenix missiles were launched, thereby maintaining situational awareness of the battlespace.
Due to the flight's routine delay, the pilot and crew were notified of the previous hijackings and were told to be on the alert, though within two minutes Jarrah had stormed the cockpit leaving the pilots dead or injured.
Due to the flight's delay, the pilot and crew were notified of the previous hijackings that day and were told to be on the alert.
The Warriors were not only used for pilot training, but also as light strike aircraft, and a number of them were employed by the FABF's Escadrille de Chasse ( EdC ).
The Blackadder pilot was shot but never aired on terrestrial TV in the UK ( although some scenes were shown in the 25th anniversary special Blackadder Rides Again ).
Holly, Valens, Richardson and the pilot were killed en route to Moorhead, Minnesota, when their plane crashed soon after taking off from nearby Mason City in the early morning hours of February 3.
From the documentation compiled by the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation, a possible key to the plane's disappearance was found, but barely touched upon by the Triangle writers: the plane's batteries were inspected and found to be low on charge, but ordered back into the plane without a recharge by the pilot while in San Juan.
The names of the two members involved were later released on the Pensacola News Journal website / forum as pilot No. 4 USMC Maj. Clint Harris and the administrative officer, Navy Lt. Gretchen Doane.
Local ecumenical liturgies were encouraged, and excitement initially built around " pilot programs " in Denver, Los Angeles, and Memphis.
Segments of the pilot were recreated in the sixth episode of the show's first season.
By contrast, the Gemini capsule's avionics were designed so the cabin could be exposed to the vacuum of space when one of two large hatches was opened, so no airlock was required, and both the spacewalking astronaut and his companion command pilot were in vacuum during the EVA.
As an interim measure, the propeller blades were armored and fitted with metal wedges to protect the pilot from ricochets.
Gun breeches were directly in front of the pilot with obvious implications in case of accidents, but jams could be cleared in flight, while aiming was simplified.
Fighter armament eventually began to be mounted inside the wings, outside the arc of the propeller, though most designs retained two synchronized machine-guns directly ahead of the pilot where they were more accurate ( that being the strongest part of the structure ).
They were both written by Sylvia Anderson and the first one featured a short text story based on the pilot episode of the TV series.
Several demonstrations were made on a flight simulator where a Cessna-trained small-aircraft pilot successfully landed a heavily-damaged full-size concept jet, without prior experience with large-body jet aircraft.

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