New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has found blatant disregard of norms by several flying schools across the country.
The DGCA has warned the schools that there permits will be cancelled if they fail to comply with the guidelines.
Audits of as many as 40 flying schools were carried out by the DGCA in the wake of the fake pilot scam in which licenses of more than 20 pilots were cancelled, and all of them were found to be violating norms.
After the audit, carried out since April, the DGCA has served 30-day notice to the flying schools....
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05:29 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Another pilot was arrested for using forged documents to acquire a flying on Wednesday. Captain Swaran Singh Talwar was arrested in Delhi. He allegedly forged his marksheets to acquire the airline transport pilot license. Talwar was employed with MDLR airlines. Police had earlier issued a lookout notice for him and two other absconding pilots. Staying with that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has stepped in aggressively...
09:27 AM, Apr 20, 2011
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12:17 AM, Apr 19, 2011
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10:34 PM, Apr 18, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi-based doctor and the only one in north India authorised by the DGCA to give pilots the mandatory medical clearance to fly is likely to be de-recognised by a top US Aviation regulator. The Federal aviation authority acted after CNN-IBN reported that Dr Bhalla was extorting money from pilots in exchange for the fitness certificate. Everybody wants a bite of the booming aviation pie, even if that...
08:35 PM, Apr 18, 2011
New Delhi: Two more persons, including a pilot, were arrested in Ahmedabad by Delhi Police for allegedly using forged marksheets to procure licence from the country's airline regulator DGCA, taking the total number of arrests in such cases to 11. Hiren Nagar (27), a pilot, and a tout Eknath Patil(46) were arrested from Ahmedabad by a team of Delhi Police's Crime Branch on Monday following the arrest of Abhinav Kaushik...
10:36 AM, Apr 05, 2011
Mumbai: 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...
06:59 AM, Mar 27, 2011
Ex-DGCA official and three others pilots were arrested by Delhi Police on Saturday in connection with the fake pilot scam. They are accused of helping other pilots to forge their exam results in order to obtain a flying licence. ...
10:37 PM, Mar 26, 2011
New Delhi: An ex-DGCA official and three others were arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with the fake pilot scam on Saturday. They are accused of helping other pilots forge their exam results to obtain a flying licence. Earlier this month, Captain Parminder Gulati and Captain JK Verma were arrested for submitting fake marksheets to get their Airlines Transport Pilot Licences (ATPL). Further investigations have revealed that Captain Verma...
10:03 PM, Mar 26, 2011
New Delhi: An ex-DGCA official and three others were arrested in connection with the fake pilot scam on Saturday. It's the first time a former official from the apex aviation regulatory body has been arrested. Pradeep Kumar was removed from his post as assistant director of licensing some months ago over various allegations of corruption. He was among three others including a pilot Pradeep Tyagi who was picked up by...
10:03 AM, Mar 26, 2011
