{"id":25,"date":"2006-11-04T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=25"},"modified":"2006-11-04T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T08:37:00","slug":"madras-flying-club-permitted-to-offer-aviation-maintenance-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2006\/11\/madras-flying-club-permitted-to-offer-aviation-maintenance-course.html","title":{"rendered":"Madras Flying Club permitted to offer aviation maintenance course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Chennai:<\/span> The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has permitted the Madras Flying Club (MFC) to offer aviation maintenance engineering (AME) course and set up an engine overhaul workshop.<br \/>&#8220;We will seek the assistance of District Collectors to help create awareness among students in interior pockets of the State to encourage them to take up flying as a vocation and make it affordable to the economically weaker sections,&#8221; ays Jacob Selvaraj, Air India pilot and chairman of the Madras Flying Club.<br \/>The MFC will make detailed presentations to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology Dayanidhi Maran, and Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram.<br \/>The MFC will approach Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Governments to help refurbish the airstrips at Sholavaram near Chennai and Lawspet on the outskirts of the Union Territory.<br \/>Capt. Selvaraj wants the Government to stop quarrying of gravel around the Sholavaram airfield. &#8220;The Government can hand over the Sholavaram airfield to the MFC to help kick-start flying activities.&#8221; At present, trainee pilots have to go to Vellore for their training.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">04\/11\/06 TS Shankar\/The Hindu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has permitted the Madras Flying Club (MFC) to offer aviation maintenance engineering<\/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-25","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\/25","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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}