Aviation watch

1. 31 Jan 2012
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2. AVIATION WATCH
MAKING AIR TRAVEL SAFER
THROUGH
MORE EFFICIENT TRAINING PRACTICES
AND
REVIEW SYLLABI FOR PILOTS
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3. BASIC PILOT TRAINING
 DEVELOPED WORLD : PPL – CPL – ATPL
 INDIA : PPL – CPL - ATPL
 SIMILAR SYLLABI AND LICENSING
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4. ROUTE TO AN AIRLINE COCKPIT
DEVELOPED WORLD
 PPL
 CPL
 Experience in General Aviation
 Airliner
INDIA
 CPL
 Airliner
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5. HISTORY OF FLYING TRAINING IN INDIA
 Pre – 1986 – Flying Club based
 Establishment of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi in 1986.
Average output 20 CPL per year
 IGRUA equipped with best aircraft & simulators for the time
 2005 onwards massive pilot demand. IGRUA could not meet the
demand
 Mushrooming of flying clubs in India
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6. HISTORY OF FLYING TRAINING IN INDIA
(Contd..)
 Training Abroad (mixed results)
 Spurious Flying Clubs abroad & in India
 Inability of regulator to check the quality
 2008 - IGRUA Management handed over to CAE for ten years
 Now IGRUA with enhanced productivity produced 80 CPLs last year
 This year Plan is to produce 100.
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7. IGRUA PRODUCT Vs REST
 Government has invested heavily for infrastructure
 Airfield, hangars, dispersals, ATC, Nav-aids, ground School,
hostels, aircraft, simulators, fuel farm, fire services – all owned by
IGRUA. Also Maintenance of all these by IGRUA (Expensive)
 Can accommodate 200 trainees
 Has 25 aircraft including 2 multi engine aircraft
 Has 5 simulators
 Well established Ground school
 Entry through All-India competitive exam
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8. IGRUA PRODUCT Vs REST
(Contd…)
 Own vehicles, hostels and mess, captive power generators, own water
supply, solar geysers, own township, own shopping centre, etc. In short
– all that is needed for comfort and safe rest for aircrew and maintenance
crew
 Dedicated experienced unmatched instructional staff ( Ground/Air)
 Known as IIT/IIM of Aviation Training
 Rest of the flying clubs/schools in the country generally have 2-3 aircraft
and associated staff
 Quality training possible only when assets and infrastructure along with
instructional staff scaled up into a big institution like IGRUA. Financial
feasibility possible only when scaled up/Government support through
subsidy (IGRUA has both)
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9. IGRUA PRODUCT Vs REST
(Contd…)
 Rest of the clubs fall short badly. Hence also not financially feasible
 But started due either brand value/profit motive.
Both not achievable – generally follow lower pricing/short cuts
quality wise to survive
 Indian Aviation suffers as a consequence
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10. SOLUTION
 Replicate IGRUA type institution and have 4-5 big zonal flying schools in
India
 IGRUA exists in North. Central India has CAE/AAI owned NFTI at Gondia
near Nagpur. Create one each in East, West and South
 Spell out min infrastructure to 8 or more aircraft along with FNPT
simulators and a proper ground school. Any school with less than this be
allowed training only upto PPL level
 Scaling up will ensure balance between commercial and professional
interest. Quality will improve
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11. SOLUTION
(Contd.)
 Mergers and acquisitions of smaller flying clubs be aided by Government
and encouraged
 Age, Education, Qualification, Common Entrance Test
 Mandate IGRUA to run an Instructors Course to improve standards of
trainees
 Surveillance over these 5-6 schools possible by DGCA with its limited
staff. Quality will improve
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12. REVIEW SYLLABI
 DGCA follows ICAO syllabus for CPL
 ICAO syllabi for CPL not focussed on Airlines but on General Aviation
 Induction by Airlines only with much greater experience. (CPL 200 hrs.
airlines abroad induct only at 1500 hrs experience)
 In India entry to airlines at 200 hours
 India must adopt MPL syllabus which is designed specifically for entry
into airlines. Its training methodology prepares pilots for airlines from
ab-initio stage.
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