Flying Career as a Pilot in India

Want to propel your self with a Flying Career as a Pilot?
Here are few things you need to know before you end up landing in an alien country for your flight training.

1) Age and Educational Qualification - Need to be atleast 17 years old and atleast a high school graduate with MATHS and PHYSICS.

2) Medical Fitness – (DGCA requirements needs you to have a Class I medical Fitness certificate to extend your commercial pilot privileges.)
Have you done your class I medical assessment in India? If not, you need to get your Class II medical assessment done and only then you can get your class I done.
Here is where you can find a Class II medical examiner in your area.

http://dgca.nic.in/medical/class2-ind.htm

Here is the link for the medical assessment handbook
http://dgca.nic.in/medical/handbook-ind.htm


3) When you get back to India with FAA/CAA Licence its gonna be of no use, as you will need to convert it into an Indian one.
Here is a checklist of the documents you need to get from your training institute to convert it.

http://dgca.nic.in/licencing/conver.htm

4) To write the conversion exams in India you will need a Computer number from the DGCA.

Here is the application for the computer number

http://dgca.nic.in/forms/Pilot/compno_pilot.pdf

5) You will also need a Radio Telephony Licence to work as a commercial pilot in India, for which the DGCA has been coming up with a set of new rules quite often, try catching up on the latest from official sources.

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