{"id":712,"date":"2008-07-11T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=712"},"modified":"2008-07-11T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T12:19:00","slug":"class-xii-science-remains-eligibility-criterion-for-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/07\/class-xii-science-remains-eligibility-criterion-for-pilots.html","title":{"rendered":"Class XII science remains eligibility criterion for pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi<\/span>: Studying science and maths till Class 12 level is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/dgca.nic.in\/schedules\/section-j.pdf\">remain a must<\/a> for all those who dream of becoming a pilot, for now at least. The aviation ministry has put on hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/02\/science-till-10th-only-you-can-still-be.html\">radical proposal<\/a> to relax <a href=\"http:\/\/dgca.nic.in\/schedules\/section-j.pdf\">this rule<\/a> and make students who have studied science (physics) and maths till Class 10 eligible to become a pilot.<br \/>&#8220;In the recent past there have been reports of near misses and some other incidents that caused concern for fliers. Clearly, the aviation ministry did not want to take a step, which although perfectly logical, may have led to accusation of diluting standards and imperilling safety,&#8221; said ministry sources. Not surprisingly, this proposal was recently sent to aviation minister Praful Patel who did not clear it and sought further discussions on the issue.<br \/>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had made the proposal as the basic things a pilot needs to know are part of the science and maths curriculum in Class 10. These include &#8211; conversion of different units; basic maths; trigonometry for calculating height and distance; speed of sound and light; differential pressure; torque and retardation. Moreover, increased automation in cockpits of new-generation aircraft have also made pilots&#8217; lives easier.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">11\/07\/08 Saurabh Sinha\/Times of India<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Studying science and maths till Class 12 level is going to remain a must for all those who<\/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-712","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\/712","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=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}