{"id":21,"date":"2006-10-12T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-10-12T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T05:11:00","slug":"iaf-mulling-lending-pilots-to-civil-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2006\/10\/iaf-mulling-lending-pilots-to-civil-carriers.html","title":{"rendered":"IAF mulling lending pilots to civil carriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Shillong:<\/span> Facing desertions by its pilots, IAF was contemplating to &#8216;depute&#8217; some of its senior pilots to the Air India and other civil carriers for a short period.<br \/>&#8220;We are in contact with Air India and others on how we can give some of our pilots to them on deputation for a year or two,&#8221; Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Air Command (AOC-in-C), Air Marshal F H Major said here yesterday.<br \/>Making it clear that IAF trained its pilots to fight war and not to fly commercial planes, air marshal major said an officer upto the rank of &#8216;Group Captain&#8217; has got 15-20 years of experience in flying. &#8220;So we are thinking of how we can give some pilots to Air India and others on deputation.&#8221;<br \/>Seeking to downplay the desertions by the pilots in the IAF, he said it was &#8216;not alarming&#8217;, though some might have left the IAF.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">11\/10\/06 Zee News <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shillong: Facing desertions by its pilots, IAF was contemplating to &#8216;depute&#8217; some of its senior pilots to the Air India<\/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-21","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\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}