IAF to increase pilot recruitment to meet shortage

New Delhi: To bridge the pilot shortage it faces at present, the IAF has increased the number of recruits in its pilot training institution to fill the gaps when future inductions begin, Air Chief Marshal P V Naik said today.
“At the present moment, there is shortage (of pilots). But it is not alarming. Plans (to meet the shortfall) is already existing and they have been reactivated and energised,” he said here.
The pilots training institutions, which were hitherto admitting about 190 or 200 pilots annually, has recently increased the intake to 260, he added.
09/10/09 Press Trust of India