{"id":55,"date":"2007-01-11T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=55"},"modified":"2007-01-11T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T10:34:00","slug":"govt-mulls-issuing-multiple-pilot-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/01\/govt-mulls-issuing-multiple-pilot-licences.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulls issuing multiple pilot licences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi<\/span>: In a move that would address low cost airlines\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 long-pending demand \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and will also be a global first \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the government is considering a proposal to issue multiple pilot licences. It will allow a pilot to fly more than one type of aircraft within a category of aircraft or in multiple categories.<br \/>According to ministry sources, in November, the directorate general of civil aviation had already relaxed the norms on flying helicopters. A pilot under a single licence can fly both a single engine copter and a twin-engine (two rotors) helicopter and can also fly two different kinds of copters in one day.<br \/>However, globally, no major airline currently allows a pilot to fly more than one type of aircraft. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s considered unsafe because of the totally different cockpit handling of aircraft since they belong to different manufacturers.<br \/>International carriers like the Singapore Airlines, Emirates also do not allow their pilots, even the ones trained on both, to fly two separate kinds of aircraft.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">09\/01\/07 Atreyee Dev Roy\/Financial Express <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In a move that would address low cost airlines\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 long-pending demand \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and will also be a global<\/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-55","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\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}