{"id":144,"date":"2007-05-24T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=144"},"modified":"2007-05-24T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T11:01:00","slug":"demand-for-pilots-at-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/05\/demand-for-pilots-at-all-time-high.html","title":{"rendered":"Demand for pilots at all-time high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >W<\/span>ith the demand for pilots at an all-time high, more and more youngsters are training to take to the skies, and nowhere more than in Hyderabad, which is home to both government and private aviation academies.<br \/>The boom in the airline industry has triggered a huge shortage of pilots in India.<br \/>There is an estimated demand for 94,000 pilots in the next five years in the Asia-pacific region.<br \/>The director general of civil aviation has eased the qualification norms to get a commercial pilot&#8217;s license.<br \/>For instance, the number of mandatory flying hours has been reduced from 250 to 200. Only those with 6 by 6 eyesight could get a pilot&#8217;s job earlier. But now, vision that can be corrected to 6 by 6, can qualify.<br \/>&#8221;Anybody with a CPL now has every chance to be selected as a pilot. There was a time when people with 1500-2000 hours of flying also found it difficult to get jobs,&#8221; said L Kumaran, former advisor of Jet Airways Training.<br \/>There are, however, some concerns about youngsters flying high too soon.<br \/>&#8221;The maturity level of an 18-year-old is relatively less than for a 24-year-old. Their level of understanding and seriousness is less. But because of the demand, they are forced to mature and handle emergencies as a pilot sometimes even at 18,&#8221; said Captain Vinod, a simulator instructor.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">23\/05\/07 Radhika Iyer\/NDTV.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the demand for pilots at an all-time high, more and more youngsters are training to take to the skies,<\/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-144","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\/144","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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}