{"id":1915,"date":"2014-03-16T14:09:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T14:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2016-07-06T19:21:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T19:21:02","slug":"soaring-to-greater-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2014\/03\/soaring-to-greater-heights.html","title":{"rendered":"Soaring to Greater Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Most people manage to excel in just one field in their lifetime. But spine surgeon Dr Nagesh Bhandari is a trained pilot as well. Taking his passion forward in the 1990s, he launched a flight school in Ahmedabad. In 2004, he started a training programme for Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (AMEs). Recently, he has pioneered a B.Sc. programme for AMEs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My brothers and I have always had a passion for aircraft but during the 1980s when our family was establishing the engineering company Electrotherm, the aviation sector was strictly government controlled,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 says Bhandari. This changed in the 1990s when aviation was liberalized here.<br \/>\nNagesh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brother, Dr Rakesh Bhandari, who has a pilot license from Canada often bemoaned the standard of training for aspiring pilots here. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153During the 1990s, my brother and I decided to open a flight school,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Nagesh. Thus Ahmedabad Aviation &amp; Aeronautics (AAA) was founded in 1994. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It operated from hangars at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel International Airport,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122he explains.<br \/>\nThe flying school has five single-engine aircraft and one flight simulator and a ground school. It also claims to be the first pilot training institute in India to import Elite I Gate class of Flight Navigation Procedure Trainer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We revived the disused Mehsana Airport, north of Ahmedabad, on a public-private partnership basis between the government of Gujarat and a private company and Ahmedabad Aviation and Aeronautics (AAA) in 2007. This airport has been upgraded and is an important part of our flight school,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 says Bhandari.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">16\/03\/14 Anil Mulchandani\/<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/magazine\/Soaring-to-Greater-Heights\/2014\/03\/16\/article2107463.ece#.UyY_YqiSxLE\" target=\"_blank\">New Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people manage to excel in just one field in their lifetime. But spine surgeon Dr Nagesh Bhandari is a<\/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":[46,67,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft-maintenance-engineers","category-ame-school","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","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=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}