{"id":57,"date":"2007-01-12T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=57"},"modified":"2007-01-12T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T10:10:00","slug":"pilots-to-fly-into-engineers-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/01\/pilots-to-fly-into-engineers-zone.html","title":{"rendered":"Pilots to fly into engineers&#039; zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Mumbai<\/span>: Can a pilot do an engineer&#8217;s job? The Directorate General of Civil Aviation thinks so. In a shocking decision taken this week, pilots have been deemed eligible to carry out pre-flight inspection of aircraft during transit halts.<br \/>The 15-20 minute inspection entrusted till now only to qualified aircraft maintenance engineers (AMEs) certifies whether the aircraft is safe to fly. It&#8217;s a walk-around inspection of aircraft and engines from ground level and involves inspection for foreign object damage to engine, blades\/propellers, condition of turbines, fuel-oil leak, proper closing and latching of cowls, checking the presence of metal in engine exhaust and identifying it, if any; condition of turbines and oil puddling, checking the condition of flight controls, presence of static discharges etc. The check also includes rectification of defects.<br \/>Now, bowing to pressure, apparently from the influential airline lobby, the DGCA has amended the Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR), series &#8216;F&#8217;, part VIII, pertaining to Airworthiness, effective January 26.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">12\/01\/07 Manju V\/Times of India <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Can a pilot do an engineer&#8217;s job? The Directorate General of Civil Aviation thinks so. In a shocking decision<\/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-57","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\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}