Serious Please Guess??? Unqualified Pilots Flying Passenger Airlines!

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India May Have As Many As 4000 ‘Fake’ Pilots
June 27, 2020

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India’s Directorate General Civil Aviation (DGCA) says 4000 pilot licenses are now under fresh scrutiny after the airline watchdog started scanning several pilots on grounds of faking marksheet to get a pilot license and violating landing norms.
It all began, says a report in local media, after Parminder Kaur Gulati, a suspended pilot of Indigo airline, was arrested on charges of faking her marksheet to get a pilot license. Another arrest on the same grounds has been made. This time around, Captain J K Verma, a pilot of the national carrier Air India has been arrested.
Verma has been arrested and investigations are on. “We have been provided more names by the DGCA. The scanner is on two more pilots – Meenakshi Sehgal of Indigo and Swaran Singh Talwar of MDLR,” a senior police official said.
The report quoted country’s Civil Aviation secretary Nasim Zaidi saying, “In the wake of the fake pilot scare, licenses of 3,000 to 4,000 pilots are being scrutinised by the DGCA.”
To get a license in India to fly, a pilot has to clear three subjects. “But in Gulati’s case, a probe by the DGCA showed she couldn’t clear two papers, so she allegedly forged the marksheets.”
According to Vinod Kannan –an airline executive, the coronavirus pandemic is a “black swan” event.
The South Asian country’s highly lucrative domestic air travel market is also taking a hit as economists say India is no longer staring at a recession but a ‘depression’.
That means lesser lesser domestic travels and revenue for the industry, an observer says.

 

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Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — More than 30% of civilian pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses and are not qualified to fly, the country's aviation minister revealed Wednesday.
Addressing Pakistan's National Assembly, Ghulam Sarwar Khan said 262 pilots in the country "did not take the exam themselves" and had paid someone else to sit it on their behalf.
"They don't have flying experience," he said.
Pakistan has 860 active pilots serving its domestic airlines -- including the country's Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flagship -- as well as a number of foreign carriers, Khan said.
PIA has grounded all its pilots who hold fake licenses, effective immediately.
"PIA acknowledges that fake licenses is not just a PIA issue but spread across the entire Pakistani airline industry," spokesperson Abdullah Khan said, adding that some of the fake pilots also fly for foreign carriers.
The results of the investigation were announced Wednesday as part of a preliminary report into a plane crash that killed 97 people in the southern city of Karachi on May 22. The PIA plane crashed after taking off from Lahore, killing all but two of the passengers and crew on board.

 

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A pilot's licence in India after just 35min?
NEW DELHI - Mr Anupam Verma has a certificate that shows he has flown an aircraft for 360 hours. He says he got it after sitting in the co-pilot's seat for just 35 minutes.

He is one of dozens of pilots in India with certificates showing inflated flying hours and ground training, according to court documents and interviews with pilots, regulators and industry analysts.

The son of a poor farmer, Mr Verma was given a 2.8 million rupee (S$59,600) subsidy by the Indian government to learn to fly a commercial jet. "What if I was flying and had an emergency? I wouldn't even know how or where to land," Mr Verma said in an interview.

"We'd kill not only the passengers, but we might crash in a village and kill even more people."

When Mr Verma, 25, realised he was not going to gain the necessary flying experience, he successfully sued the flying school for return of the money he paid.

But not all would-be pilots are as scrupulous. Concern about the quality of India's pilots has been building over the past decade as a proliferation of budget airlines created demand for hundreds of new pilots.

In 2011, the government reviewed the licences of all 4,000-plus airline pilots in the country as police investigated at least 18 people suspected of using forged documents to win promotions or certification. The findings were not made public.

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"The fudging of log books is rampant both in airlines and in flying clubs," said Mr Mohan Ranganathan, a former commercial pilot and aviation safety consultant based in Chennai. He said the 2011 audit found violations in most flying clubs in the country. "Hours were logged with aircraft not even in airworthy condition. One aircraft had no engines, but several hundred hours were logged."

Over-logging has been common practice in India since the 1960s, according to a retired commander who has flown in the country for more than 40 years and asked not to be named. With the increase in budget airlines, the typical number of faked hours rose from about 20 hours to a peak of up to 150, he said.

He said airlines can soon tell if a pilot has faked certificates because they lack the basic skills, but the carrier cannot fire them because they have Directorate-General of Civil Aviation licences. To bring them up to scratch, airlines have to do expensive corrective training, he said.

India's government has made successive efforts to stamp out false documentation and improve safety in the industry. After the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) downgraded India's safety rating last year on concerns over insufficient manpower, New Delhi hired more safety inspectors and carried out a fresh audit of its airlines. The FAA restored India to its top safety tier in April.

India is putting in "a lot of effort" to ensure safety of airline passengers and student pilots, civil aviation chief Sathiyavathy told reporters on April 24. That has not stopped under-trained pilots applying for jobs with the nation's biggest airlines.

One qualified pilot, who asked not to be named, said he completed fewer than 120 of the 200 hours his certificates say he has done. He said he is in the process of applying to fly for IndiGo, the nation's biggest carrier. Another pilot who said his certificates showed an inflated number of hours for solo flights applied to Air India. Neither of the two pilots has been hired by the airlines.

As for Mr Verma, he said he passed the entrance exam to the government-owned Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi in Uttar Pradesh. He is looking forward to finally learning to fly this year.

 

[syed putra]

These will be the new recruits for the fighter planes India and pakistan purchased. Watch out Chynnah!

 

[A Singaporean]

Everything from Ah Neh Land is fake. and yet SIA continues to hire them putting passenger lives in danger. Get rid of fucking CECA.

 

[syed putra]

Singapura airlines has a indian name and therefore will continue employing indian pilots.

 

[millim6868]

SIA hv many ah nehs pilot , sinkies are dumb

 

[tanwahtiu]

This is what PAP wanted high flyers for rent seeking economy.

Give high pay jobs to fake Ahnehs so they can build expensive residential development for rent seeking ecomony for their PAP cronies investors.

Surely, these 4,000 fake pilots will fly to Singapore.

OMG... good jobs are swarmed by fake anhneh pilots.

GE2020 vote oppos into parliament to kick out dictator LHL incompetent to lead Singapore.

LHL is a danger to Singapore survival...