Lok Sabha Question No. 2617 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-12-01
Subject: Flying Training Institutes
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: HARISH DWIVEDI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: : 2617 (To be answered on the 1st December 2016)

## FLYING TRAINING INSTITUTES

## 2617\_ SHRI HARISH CHANDRA ALIAS HARISH DWIVEDI

Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether there is dearth of institutes providing flying training in the country;
- (c) if s0, the steps taken to set up adequate number of such institutes in the country; and
- (b) if so, whether the Indian youth aspirants for commercial pilots are forced to take training in costly international schools;
- (d) the steps taken/being taken by the Government to provide training to in the country? pilot youth

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

(a) There are adequate Institutes which provide Flying Training in the country.

(c) There are already 29 DGCA approved Flying Training Organisations (FTOs):

(b) No Madam.

(d) The steps taken to ensure quality training to the pilots are attached at Annexure A

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To enhance the standards of Flying Training and for ensuring regulatory control in Organisation imparting training for issue of Commercial Pilot Licenses DGCA has taken following steps:

- 1\_ Civil Aviation Requirements, Section 7 series D part regarding 'Approval, Renewal and Inspection/ Surveillancel Audit of flying training organization" was revised and issued on 30-1-2015, further; it was again revised on 31-7-2015 on the basis of the inputs from stake holders and on the recommendations of MoCA (Copy of the CAR is available on DGCA website WWWdgca nic in).
- 2\_ Civil Aviation Requirements, Section 7 series part V regarding "Criteria  for approval of Chief Flying Instructor and Deputy Chief Flight Instructor for Flying Training Organisation" was re-issued on 20.02.2015 and again revised on 4-82015 on the basis of the inputs from stake holders and on the recommendations
- 3\_ Accordingly, to ensure compliance of above two CARs recertification of all Flying Training  Organisations (FTOs) was initiated by DGCA and twenty nine (29) Flying Training Organisations have already been recertified as per the revised certification procedures laid down in CAR: (List of certified FTOs is at Annexure 3).
- 4\_ As mentioned above at point No.1 and 2 DGCA has revised old regulations with new regulations some of the salient features of both the revised Civil Aviation Requirements are
- Both are user friendly and concise:
- These CARs clearly lays down the  requirements and processes involved in approvall renewal of approvals.
- Templates are provided for preparation of Training and Procedure Manual (TPM) and Quality Assurance Manual (QAM):
- CARs contains specified application performas for approvall renewal of FTOs and CFIIDy CFIICGI post holders.
- Detailed application performas are also provided for getting approval
- A comprehensive process to be followed within DGCA for approval of TPM and QAM is specified for guidance of Inspectors.
- For ensuring better quality in flying training, an organisation is free to down  their own   procedures  for  training and have their own effective mechanism to ensure quality and the systems written by them in their manuals are approved by DGCA qualified inspectors. Iay

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- FTOs are free to change their systems through TPM and QAM after due approval from DGCA again to fine tune their systemsl operations to have best flying training output
- Restriction of one CFI and one DY.CFI has been removed, FTOs are allowed to have requisite no. of CFIs/Dy: CFIs as per the size and scope of their FTO. Thus training does not stop due want of qualified manpower and continuous training ensures quality. having
- FTOs are given   liberty to operate from other bases than  their approved main bases s0 that the training should continue without any break due weather or any other reasons at main base. Continuity in flying training ensures better skills in pilots.
- AlI CFIIDy: CFI are assessed for  their examiner competency by DGCA to ensure quality of training provided by them to pilots.

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