{"id":319,"date":"2007-09-29T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=319"},"modified":"2007-09-29T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T18:59:00","slug":"pilot-courses-in-us-work-out-cheaper-than-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/09\/pilot-courses-in-us-work-out-cheaper-than-in-india.html","title":{"rendered":"Pilot courses in US work out cheaper than in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi:<\/span> Even while 37 applications for setting up flying academies are pending for government clearance, the inexpensive fees of commercial pilot training courses in the US, South-east Asia and Australia, compared to India, are forcing aspiring pilots to go abroad.<br \/> While the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uraan Academy (IGRUA) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an autonomous flying institute under the central government \u00e2\u20ac\u201d charges around Rs 19 lakh for its training course for a commercial pilot licence, a flying institute in the US charges around Rs 16 lakh for the same course.<br \/> What is more, the training period in the US academies is six months, while it can take up to two and a half years in India.<br \/>Even South-east Asia works out cheaper than India. Malaysian flying academies offer courses that take about a year but cost between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 12 lakh. The Philippines, which is one of the cheapest countries in the world for getting a pilot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s licence, charges Rs 9-10 lakh.<br \/>Australia offers a range of academies giving training for Rs 16-18 lakh.<br \/>While there are 42 training institutes in the country, of which only 25 are operational (14 are state-operated and 11 are run by private entrepreneurs), they have the capacity to churn out 300- 400 pilots annually, leaving a yawning gap of 600-700 pilots.<br \/>The private flying schools in India charge about Rs 16 lakh, which is at par with what is charged in the US.<br \/>But most of them do not offer multi-engine aircraft training, unlike in foreign academies. This training is necessary to get entry into any premier airline company in the country or the globe.<br \/>State-owned flying institutes charge a little lower, in the range of Rs 10 lakh.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">29\/09\/07 Anirban Chowdhury\/Business Standard<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Even while 37 applications for setting up flying academies are pending for government clearance, the inexpensive fees 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","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\/319","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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}