{"id":1217,"date":"2010-07-28T13:23:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2010-07-28T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T13:23:15","slug":"coast-guard-recruiting-commercial-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2010\/07\/coast-guard-recruiting-commercial-pilots.html","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard recruiting commercial pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Chennai<\/span>: In a move to strengthen coastline security of the nation, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is on an aircraft purchase spree. The force is also recruiting commercial pilots on a short-term contract basis to fly its helicopters and planes.<br \/>\nCoast Guard will get 12 Dornier planes, three single-engine helicopters and a few twin-engine helicopters. It has also placed orders for a few multi-machine aircraft which can fly for more than 10 hours non-stop.<br \/>\nAt present, Coast Guard has 17 Chetak helicopters, 24 Dorniers and 3 advanced light helicopters. In Chennai, there are four Dornier aircraft and three Chetak helicopters.<br \/>\nCoast Guard has started recruiting commercial pilot licence- holders holders to fly its aircraft on a short-term contract basis. Earlier, Coast Guard used to induct them for permanent posts. &#8220;The recruited pilots undergo one year training programme which comprises flying lessons in Daman and also in the Naval academy. &#8220;These pilots, who would have handled single-engine aircraft, will be trained in flying our multi-engine planes and big helicopters. They will also be given lessons in firing, pollution handling, and search-and-rescue operations,&#8221; said a source.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">23\/07\/10<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/Coast-Guard-on-aircraft-buying-spree-for-better-patrolling\/articleshow\/6203006.cms\" target=\"_blank\">Vivek Narayanan\/Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: In a move to strengthen coastline security of the nation, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is on an aircraft<\/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-1217","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\/1217","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=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}