Not all instructors or pilots lack credibility: DGCA training chief
Mumbai: In the wake of fake pilot license scam that shook the entire country, the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) decided to hire 420 personnel in its flying training directorate as some of the flying training schools (FTS) were also found helping students login more hours than they had actually flown.DNA speaks to recently appointed Capt Yashraj Tongia, director, flying training, DGCA.
What is your role?
I will be responsible for directorate of flying training in the office of DGCA. This will include granting of approval to training organisations, instructors, issue of circulars and matters related to flying training.
What changes do you intend to bring about?
First of all, I will make every effort to make India a destination for pilot training. Of 1,500 commercial pilot liecences (CPLs) issued in the country every year, 70% are trained abroad. On the other hand, not a single student from a foreign country comes to India for training. Even a country like Philippines is attracting Indian students. We have excellent weather that is conducive to flying training. We have good instructors and there is interest among investors in this sector, so there is no reason why the scenario should not change. I would like to introduce best international practices in India.
With the pilot license scam in the background, there is a question mark over the credibility of flying schools. How do you intend to address the stigma?
I do not think there is any question mark over the credibility of flying schools. The cases that have come to light are related to forgery of documents by specific individuals. The authorities have taken stringent action against the perpetrators. They have also overhauled the license document verification system. It is unfair to conclude that all the instructors or the pilot community lacks credibility.
10/05/11 Naveeta Singh/Daily News & Analysis
JFYI The past Director and CFI of Yash AIR, Capt. Yash Raj Tongia, on whose assurances all students took admission at Yash AIR during 2009 to 2010, is now happily decorating the position of Director of Flying Training at DGCA at Delhi. His father, also director at yash AIR, Capt. Bharat Tongia, equally responsible for luring students to Yash Air is no-where to be seen and is un-reachable. Another person the great Mr. Rawal still happily doing the job of misguiding students and their parents that the academy will open soon and every time you call, he tells it will happen within next 2-3 months. I guess he has been given the job of delaying any court cases so that it crosses time limit allowed/set for such cases to be filed.
It is high time that an initiative is taken to file a joint case in the consumer forum and to get back our precious hard earned money which they all have swallowed together.
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