{"id":844,"date":"2008-11-22T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=844"},"modified":"2008-11-22T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T11:29:00","slug":"meltdown-grounds-aspiring-pilots-plan-to-hit-pay-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/11\/meltdown-grounds-aspiring-pilots-plan-to-hit-pay-dirt.html","title":{"rendered":"Meltdown grounds aspiring pilots&#039; plan to hit pay dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Mumbai: <\/span>Twenty-year-old Akshay Mishra was set to fly high after graduating from an Australian pilot training academy and procuring an Indian<br \/>commercial pilot&#8217;s licence to back it up. But, three months down the line, he is busy preparing to sell ad spots at cricket grounds for the ongoing India-versus-England series.<br \/>Aspiring pilot Mishra ended up as a sales representative in an advertising firm after a seemingly endless wait for things to improve. &#8220;But I couldn&#8217;t wait any longer and sit idle at home waiting for times to change,&#8221; the youngster said. &#8220;I have been waiting for almost three months to get a call. But I don&#8217;t expect it any time soon,&#8221; he added.<br \/>The sheen of an airline job seems to have faded with many young pilots trying to cope with the &#8220;what-to-do-next&#8221; question. Some like Mishra (his name has been changed) are considering alternative career choices but many are going back to books to secure a degree. &#8220;I am enjoying my stint in advertising for now. But I will go for a proper degree, which will hold me in good stead in the long run,&#8221; Mishra said.<br \/>Many of his friends who have not got a job because of lack of qualifications-most joined pilot-training academies abroad right after Std XII-are now turning to books. The turmoil in the aviation industry seems to have wakened them up to the need for traditional degrees.<br \/>But there are others who are now looking forward to specialising in aviation itself. They are looking out for courses like a BSc in aviation offered by Mumbai University. A Delhi-based trainee, who missed his chance to enrol in the current batch because of his Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) licence exam, is waiting for the next batch.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">21\/10\/08 Chinmayi Shalya\/Times of India<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Twenty-year-old Akshay Mishra was set to fly high after graduating from an Australian pilot training academy and procuring an<\/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-844","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\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}