Aviation India: Careers

New Delhi: Indian air traffic controllers (ATCs) will get an opportunity to train in the US, thanks to initiatives launched by the two countries to ramp up their ties in the civil aviation sector.
The training will be conducted under the India-US Aviation Cooperation Programme (ACP) that will be overseen by the US-India Joint Aviation Steering Committee, whose first meeting was held in the Capital on Friday.
"The training is the first project of the ACP. It will begin in January and run through 2008, focusing on air traffic operations at the two busiest Indian airports of Delhi and Mumbai," James Filippatos of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), told reporters here Friday.
"The project will be completed in four phases, permitting Indian and American air traffic control officials to work together," added Filippatos, who is the FAA assistant administrator for international aviation.
He attended the first meeting of the steering committee Thursday, as also the ACP meeting Friday.
The ACP is a public-private partnership between the US Trade and Development Agency, the FAA, US aviation companies and the Indian government.
27/10/07 Indo-Asian News Service/Hindustan Times