Click to play videoMumbai: Nitin Shukla works in Canada as a flying instructor in a school. He says , "I have around 900 hours of flying time and 500 hours of instruction time under my belt. I've always wanted to come back home in India and work here. But I cannot even give a pilot test here in India though I am more than qualified for it."
The main reason is the DGCA requires pilots to be standard twelfth pass with maths and physics. That is a requirement nowhere else in the world.
Nitin elaborates, "It's because of these unnecessary rules and regulations by the DGCA that our skies are unsafe. Rules that don't allow qualified pilots to come in but let pilots with just 200 hours of flying time to handle high-performance aircraft."
"I could have got the marksheets if I wanted to fulfill that requirement as I was approached by a Delhi education system middleman who claimed to have given other pilots the same. While I chose not to go down that road, I know others who did."
The civil aviation industry in India is seeing a boom, and many like us are eager to get it. The DGCA is making their system on par with global standards periodically, but they should focus on enabling deserving applicants to get into this field.
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