{"id":684,"date":"2008-06-13T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=684"},"modified":"2008-06-13T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T07:43:00","slug":"11-come-out-with-flying-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/06\/11-come-out-with-flying-colours.html","title":{"rendered":"11 come out with flying colours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Mumbai: <\/span>Sahil Bhatt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happiness knows no bounds. He has recently got a licence to co-pilot a flight. And Bhatt is the youngest person in the country to have it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he is 12.<br \/>Bhatt and 10 others got to live the life of a co-pilot, for some days though, all thanks to their school Ryan International Group of Institutions (RIGI).<br \/>As part of an Aviation and Leadership camp, 11 students and two instructors of RIGI had the opportunity to train as a co-pilot and hold the Airtime Canada Co-Pilots licence.<br \/>Sriram Natraj, 14, from Ryan International, Sanpada, showed his licence and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how to drive a car and am not even eligible for a driving licence. But I have a co-pilot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s licence.<br \/>The organisation development head of RIGI, Francis Joseph, said,\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The intention was to give our students a hands on experience. Just going to a counsellor will not help students make up their mind. This way, they know what they are getting into.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>The 11 students spent two weeks in Canada and were taught the language pilots use, controlling the plane, and leadership skills. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I did around 20 minutes of flying in the week.<br \/>A senior pilot from Jet Airways, however, said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The students hold the licence to co-pilot a non commercial, one-passenger plane. To hold a legitimate commercial licence, one has to go through rigorous training. You have to have 200 hours of flying and clear two written exams.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">13\/06\/08 Priya Ramakrishnan\/Daily News &amp; Analysis<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Sahil Bhatt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happiness knows no bounds. He has recently got a licence to co-pilot a flight. And Bhatt is<\/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-684","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\/684","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=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}