{"id":860,"date":"2009-01-01T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=860"},"modified":"2009-01-01T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T17:59:00","slug":"indias-dgca-rule-may-shut-down-maintenance-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2009\/01\/indias-dgca-rule-may-shut-down-maintenance-training.html","title":{"rendered":"India&#039;s DGCA rule may shut down maintenance training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;\" >T<\/span>he November 20 issue of the Daily News &amp; Analysis of Mumbai, India, reports Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (AME) institutes might shut down across the country, a move that has nothing to do with global economics.<br \/>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) plans to make it compulsory for institutes to acquire newer aircraft to teach aircraft maintenance engineering courses. But AME is not in a position to buy the aircraft.<br \/>A senior civil aviation official said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The idea is to overhaul the entire system for aircraft maintenance engineering courses taught in institutes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>There are 68 AME schools registered with the DGCA, the body that certifies and registers AME schools. The move has left these schools coming up short as AME license renewal came due at the end of last year. The newspaper reported that buying new aircraft would bleed the schools financially.<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They are trying hard to get rid of the proposed clause that makes it compulsory for them to acquire newer aircraft,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a representative of an AME school said on condition of anonymity. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The price of the aircraft according to DGCA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s specification will be so high that it will force many AME schools to shut down.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The schools currently use parts of older aircraft.<br \/>School representatives argue that DGCA must not equate AME schools with pilot training schools. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is normal for flying schools to have a fleet of single-engine aircraft. But no AME school can afford to buy a fleet of aircraft for teaching aircraft maintenance engineering courses,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>According to the article, DGCA officials see nothing wrong in the proposed amendment as it will raise the quality of teaching to global standards.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">01\/01\/09 David A. Lombardo\/AINonline<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The November 20 issue of the Daily News &amp; Analysis of Mumbai, India, reports Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (AME) institutes might<\/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-860","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\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}