{"id":480,"date":"2008-01-11T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=480"},"modified":"2008-01-11T06:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T06:24:00","slug":"kerala-aviation-academy-to-spread-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/01\/kerala-aviation-academy-to-spread-wings.html","title":{"rendered":"Kerala aviation academy to spread wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Thiruvananthapuram:<\/span> After lying idle for around 10 years, the Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy is all set to spread wings with two new aircraft next month.The state-owned institution has acquired a Cessna Nav and a Cessna Standard aircraft worth Rs 2 crore for imparting training.<br \/>The Academy which was shifted from Chakka recently owing to the construction of the new terminal for the airport is now functioning from a rented building at Enchackal.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Airport Authority of India has allotted 2,500 square metres of land for the Academy. A new building will be constructed on the land at a cost of Rs 10 crore,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sports and Youth Affairs Minister M.Vijayakumar told a news conference here on Wednesday.<br \/>Captain T.J.Joseph has been appointed as the Chief Flight Instructor. Training is expected to begin in February itself, the Minister said.<br \/>Twenty candidates will be admitted to the first batch. Admission will be based on a state-level entrance test, followed by an interview and a medical test. The minimum qualification for joining the course is Plus II or equivalent.<br \/>The charge for one-hour of flying is Rs 6,500. Around 200 hours of flying is required to obtain a commercial pilot licence. The candidates should remit a sum of Rs 50,000 as the fee for ground school.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">10\/01\/08 Newindpress<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thiruvananthapuram: After lying idle for around 10 years, the Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy is all set to spread wings with<\/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-480","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\/480","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=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}