No chopper training till Director General of Civil Aviation completes probe

Bangalore: The helicopter which force-landed atop a building last week has deprived 28 pilots from being trained in basic helicopter flying.

The Rotary Wing Academy (RWA), to which the chopper belonged, has 28 trainees, including Army pilots, Border Security Force (BSF) officers, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers, Coast Guard and civil pilots. “Their training will continue with the turbo engine and later, they will graduate to the Cheetah and Chethak helicopters of HAL,” official sources told TOI.
RWA is now starting training at the intermediate level. According to senior RWA officers, this will continue till investigations by the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) are completed. There were two variants of the helicopter – piston engine and turbo engine. The trainee pilots would start training with the piston engine and then graduate to the turbo engine. “These helicopters were bought with this training aspect in mind,” HAL officials said.
23/04/12 Arun Dev/Times of India

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