Govt steps in to ease pilot shortage crisis

New Delhi: Lok Sabha: The Government has taken various steps to reduce the gap between the demand and supply of pilots. This information was given to the Parliament by Shri Praful Patel, Minister for Civil Aviation in the Lok Sabha today.
The steps include conditionally increasing the age limit to 65 years for exercising the privileges of their licenses for commercial transport operations under prescribed conditions for pilots, upgradation and modernization of training infrastructure of the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademy (IGRUA) to enhance its training capacity, setting up a world class flying training institute at Gondia, Maharashtra and assistance to flying clubs for allocating trainer aircraft through DGCA/Aero Club of India.The proposed Gondia Institute is likely to be operational by the year 2007-08.
An order has been issued by the Government, delegating powers to the DGCA to allow foreign pilots for a period not exceeding 12 weeks at a stretch with an Indian pilot in the cockpit for training purpose.
03/08/06 Press Information Bureau (press release)

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