{"id":1428,"date":"2011-06-03T19:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T19:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2011-06-03T19:39:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T19:39:48","slug":"tougher-norms-for-pilot-licences-put-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2011\/06\/tougher-norms-for-pilot-licences-put-in-place.html","title":{"rendered":"Tougher norms for pilot licences put in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Hit by one of the biggest scams in India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aviation history, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has initiated a series of steps to streamline the process of granting pilot licences.<br \/>\nThe aviation regulator has done away with the system of special session examinations, introduced measures to verify the authenticity of foreign licences, and put in place a system for cross-verification of results from the examination wing of the DGCA before issue of licence, among other initiatives.Earlier this year, it was found that a number of pilots had got airline transport pilot licence (ATPL) by forging mark sheets.<br \/>\nInvestigations showed that logbooks were fudged to obtain commercial pilot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s licence. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An expert committee has been formed to look into DGCA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s examination and licensing system and come up with recommendations,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d DGCA chief EK Bharat Bhushan said.V<br \/>\nerification of examination results from the examination wing has been made mandatory before issuing licences, a computerised system of licence is being reviewed, steps have been taken to stop the entry of unwarranted persons into the DGCA office and an audit of all approved flying institutes is being undertaken.The DGCA will verify the authenticity of foreign licences from its issuing authority before converting any foreign licence into an Indian licence. All pilots who convert to Indian licences will need to undergo skill tests.<br \/>\n02\/06\/11 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/Tougher-norms-for-pilot-licences-put-in-place\/Article1-704969.aspx Tougher norms for pilot licences put in place\" target=\"_blank\">Hindustan Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Hit by one of the biggest scams in India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aviation history, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)<\/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-1428","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\/1428","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=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}