{"id":2171,"date":"2018-04-05T12:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T12:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2018-04-23T12:41:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T12:41:25","slug":"test-for-pilots-to-go-online-from-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2018\/04\/test-for-pilots-to-go-online-from-august.html","title":{"rendered":"Test for pilots to go online from August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aviation regulator has decided to conduct examinations for pilots and engineers online and increase the frequency of qualifying tests to ensure availability of skilled workforce in the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fastest-growing aviation market.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of pilots, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will now conduct tests monthly instead of quarterly, a senior DGCA official told ET.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The exams will be conducted online starting August this year and there will be a provision to conduct exams more than once in a month. We are also looking at decentralising the exam process and conduct exams across the country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the official, who did not wish to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>This will help address the shortage of pilots in the country at a time when domestic carriers are planning to induct 900 aircraft including replacements into their fleets in the coming years.<br \/>\n05\/04\/18 Mihir Mishra\/<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/transportation\/airlines-\/-aviation\/test-for-pilots-to-go-online-from-august\/articleshow\/63617539.cms\">Economic Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aviation regulator has decided to conduct examinations for pilots and engineers online and increase the frequency of qualifying tests<\/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":[40,65,8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-jobs","category-dgca","category-pilots","category-pilot-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","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=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}