Haryana to give five airstrips on lease for setting up aviation academies

Chandigarh: A spokesman of the Haryana Civil Aviation Department said that airstrips at Narnaul, Hisar, Bhiwani, Karnal and Pinjore would be given on lease for setting up flying training academies, aircraft maintenance workship etc. by private companies.
He said that three flying training centres of Haryana Institute of Civil Aviation were established at Hisar, Karnal and Pinjore where flying and gliding training was provided to the boys and girls for obtaining Private Pilot License, Commercial Pilot License, Glider Pilot License, Aircraft Maintenance Engineers License and Flight Instructor Rating on aircraft. Besides, the scholarship and concessional flying and gliding had been proivided to boys and girls having state domicile and grant-in-aid to Haryana Institute of Civil Aviation.
He said that the institute had fixed a target of 4500 flying hours and 6000 gliding launches for the current financial year, Of these, the institute had achieved 2451.35 hours and 4272 gliding launches upto December 2007.
The spokesman said that the Haryana Institute of Civil Aviation had provided 2011 parasailing sorties and 818.50 hours simulator training to the students during the year 2006-07 while 1611 parasailing sorties had been given during the current financial year.
14/01/08 PunjabNewsline.com