{"id":783,"date":"2008-10-06T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=783"},"modified":"2008-10-06T07:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T07:06:00","slug":"appearing-for-cpl-exams-gets-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/10\/appearing-for-cpl-exams-gets-easier.html","title":{"rendered":"Appearing for CPL exams gets easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Mumbai<\/span>: Appearing for the commercial pilot license (CPL) exams in India just got a tad easier, with the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) relaxing the number of flying hours needed to sit for these tests.<br \/>Till now, a student had to do 50 hours of flying training before he\/she could appear for the written tests. Now, a student can attempt some papers even without doing a single hour of flying.<br \/>In a major revision of the exam procedure for CPL aspirants, the DGCA has laid down a fresh set of criteria dealing with eligibility to appear for the written pilot exams. To earn a CPL, a cadet has to undergo 200 hours of flying training and clear four subjects &#8211; aviation meteorology, air regulation, technical (general and specific) and air navigation.<br \/>ccording to the new rule, a student can start appearing for written tests after completing 100 hours of ground training, covering all subjects and no flying training. &#8220;The chief ground instructor shall issue a certificate to this effect and the student will be permitted to appear in (the) aviation meteorology and air regulation papers,&#8221; says the DGCA note issued to flying training institutes last week.<br \/>After clearing these papers and a minimum of 15 hours of flying training__ which can also include five hours of simulator training &#8211; a student can appear for the other papers. The alternative route to appear for written exams is to complete 25 hours of flying training with a maximum of five hours of simulator training and 350 hours of ground training. If a student has completed these, then he\/she can directly appear for all four subjects. Those who have a private pilot licence can directly appear for all CPL subjects.<br \/>&#8220;The decision was taken following a meeting of representatives of flying training institutes in the first week of August. It was felt that the 50-hour flying rule should be toned down so that students need not wait for months together to start giving these ground training exams,&#8221; said a DGCA source.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">05\/10\/08 Manju V\/Times of India<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Appearing for the commercial pilot license (CPL) exams in India just got a tad easier, with the Directorate-General of<\/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-783","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\/783","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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}