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Flying high without science? Arts and commerce students may soon be eligible for commercial pilot trainingThe DGCA is considering removing the physics and mathematics requirement for Commercial Pilot License (CPL) applicants, potentially opening...- Indian pilots to unite to raise fatigue woes after colleague's pre-flight deathIndian airline pilots are planning to form an association to challenge flying duty regulations that they say cause fatigue and compromise s...
- Indian captains react as Air India plans to hire foreign pilots for Boeing 777 fleetDocuments regarding recruitment showed that these pilots are being offered better pay, lucrative terms, generous benefits and many other pe...
- DGCA puts its services related to flight crew, training institute services onlineThe new system doesn’t require pilots and other executives to travel to the offices of the regulator for licensing and other related proced...
- AAI’s disused airfields may be turned into pilot academiesIndia has 32 training institutes that produce about 300 pilots against the requirement of 800 a year.
- Test for pilots to go online from AugustIn the case of pilots, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will now conduct tests monthly instead of quarterly, a senior DGCA ...
- Shakti Lumba declines IndiGo's offer to head proposed ATR operationsLumba, a former pilot, was instrumental in setting up IndiGo's operations in 2005 besides heading national carrier Air India's regional arm...
- First Time: DGCA chief to be selected via interviewFour joint DGs to take interview on Thursday, it’s not necessary that someone from them will be the new Director General.
- Air India may lose privilege of being sole carrier of government staff if Cabinet note goes throughAnalysts said the move will hurt the national carrier as government employees, given a choice, may not prefer Air India over its peers.
- Air India rehires retired cabin crew members to overcome shortageThe national carrier has rehired about 81 cabin crew members among 238 employees in various departments, officials said.
- Civil Aviation Ministry suggests shifting from airport-based security to aircraft-based security at smaller airportsAnalysts, however, slammed the idea on the grounds that aviation security cannot discriminate on the size of the aircraft or airport.
- Aviation ministry cuts down airport entry passes for staff of MPs and ministersIn a bid to secure airports further post the terror attack in Brussels, the civil aviation ministry has decided to cut down on the number o...
- Air India's Dreamliner aircraft will be ready to fly by end of this monthAir India’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, grounded since January this year, will be ready to fly by the end of this month, said Boeing.
- DRDO system can help check entry of stray animals on runwaysThe Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has offered a solution to the perennial problem of animals treading on airport run...
- DGCA may make psychometric tests for pilots mandatoryDGCA may make it mandatory for airlines to conduct psychometric tests on pilots during recruitment and at regular intervals after hiring th...
- DGCA struggles to maintain mandated 72 FOIsThe development is a concern. The upgrade had come 14 months after the US Federal Aviation Authority downgraded the local aviation regulato...
- DGCA to make psychological tests must for pilotsThe Directorate General of Civil Aviation has initiated a process to make psychological tests compulsory for pilots, in what will be a glob...
- Disappearance of AirAsia flight: Indian pilots trained for flying during turbulent weatherThe training for monsoon includes class-room drills on the impact of weather, interpreting the weather, apart from simulator training.
- SpiceJet flight hits animal before take-off at Surat airportDelhi-bound Spicejet with about 140 passengers onboard, hit a stray animal on the runway a few seconds before the take-off at the Surat air...
- Aviation Ministry recommends Prabhat Kumar as next DGCAThe civil aviation ministry has recommended Prabhat Kumar, a joint secretary in the ministry, as the next Director General of Civil Aviatio...
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