{"id":1193,"date":"2010-06-24T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2010-06-24T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:20:08","slug":"do-background-checks-before-hiring-foreign-pilots-dgca-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2010\/06\/do-background-checks-before-hiring-foreign-pilots-dgca-told.html","title":{"rendered":"Do background checks before hiring foreign pilots, DGCA told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Mumbai<\/span>: The Air Line Pilots\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Association India (Alpai), a two-month-old body which has half the pilots in the country as its member, has taken up the matter of aviation safety seriously.<br \/>\nIn a letter to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Alpai suggested that foreign pilots\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in India be appointed only after a thorough check and only if they meet all air safety standards. It proposed certain amendments to DGCA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent draft civil aviation regulation for appointment of foreign pilots.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You do not ask for competency, history of failures, remedial or corrective training received, and accident incident records with respect to the pilot being granted Fata [Foreign Aircrew Temporary Authorisation],\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the letter said.<br \/>\nIt said DGCA should conduct background checks of these foreign pilots rather than depend on the airlines hiring them.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">24\/06\/10 Naveeta Singh\/<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/india\/report_do-background-checks-before-hiring-foreign-pilots-dgca-told_1400517\">Daily News &amp; Analysis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Air Line Pilots\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Association India (Alpai), a two-month-old body which has half the pilots in the country as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}