{"id":396,"date":"2007-11-20T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=396"},"modified":"2007-11-20T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T09:23:00","slug":"pawan-hans-offers-pilot-training-to-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/11\/pawan-hans-offers-pilot-training-to-engineers.html","title":{"rendered":"Pawan Hans offers pilot training to engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi: <\/span>Facing a severe shortage of pilots, the state-owned<a href=\"http:\/\/164.100.52.177\/index.asp\"> Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd (PHHL)<\/a> has decided to upgrade skills of its aeronautical engineers to make them pilots. This process will cost the PSU Rs 15 lakh per person and in return it will seek a 10-year bond from the engineers, who will be required to invest Rs 7.5 lakh from their own packets for the training programmes abroad.<br \/>The helicopter major has started this as a small project for 10 people and would extend it later. The 35-chopper company wants to acquire nearly 20 more helicopters and cash in on the current aviation boom. So, the training programme has been mooted to overcome the pilot shortage scenario.<br \/>Currently India has about 170 choppers and a severe shortage of pilots. As an illustrative case, a paramilitary force had bought six MI-6 choppers about three years back and they remain parked at Safdarjung Airport as there were no pilots. In a few years, the number of choppers is going to rise to 500 and the requirement of fliers will only grow.<br \/>In fact, so bad is the situation that PHHL does not even want to divulge the number of pilots it has for running the 35-chopper fleet for the fear of poaching by other operators.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">20\/11\/07 Saurabh Sinha\/Times of India<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Facing a severe shortage of pilots, the state-owned Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd (PHHL) has decided to upgrade skills<\/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-396","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\/396","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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}