Bengaluru: About 214 acres, 40 staff and three Cessnas – all for 17 students. That’s putting together two batches of aspiring pilots at the Jakkur flying school since it reopened two years ago, a far cry from a decade earlier when it had nearly 40 students in a batch.<\/p>\n
The Government Flying Training School (GFTS) at Jakkur has trained several pilots to fly commercial jets since it was established in 1950. But poor maintenance, outdated infrastructure and a combination of longer training schedules and fewer flying hours are compelling students to opt for more expensive pilot training abroad. A commercial pilot course could cost up to Rs 1 crore in the United States, about four times the fee at local schools. Of the present lot at Jakkur, only seven are training for a commercial pilot licence – four from the 2013 batch and three from last year’s. The Karnataka government, while blaming the Union government for the Jakkur school’s plight, is finally waking up.<\/p>\n
“The Central government has cut down our grants. With the Rs 2 crore offered to the GFTS in last year’s State budget, we are acquiring new aircraft. We are also acquiring more land to extend the runway . We are looking at an opportunity to revive the Jakkur school with better management,” Abhayachandra Jain, Karnataka minister of youth services and sports, told ET. Bengaluru: About 214 acres, 40 staff and three Cessnas – all for 17 students. That’s putting together two batches of<\/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":[28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying-club","category-flying-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","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=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n23\/03\/15 Athira Nair\/Economic Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"