Indian DGCA considers online pilot register in forgery crack-down

Indian DGCA considers online pilot register in forgery crack-down

7-Apr-2011 Source: HeliHub.com

The Indian Government is planning to create an online national register of pilots with a complete dossier on each one.  The aim of this would be to eliminate pilots getting licences and jobs on the basis of falsified papers, adn the implied air safety issues therefrom. The director general of civil aviation, Bharat Bhushan, will be examining the feasibility of this project in association with Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies) among others.

The plan is to put all the documents of every pilot on an online register from the moment he or she applies for a licence, which can be then accessed by airlines at the time of hiring pilots, an official said.

The biggest problem to date has been in getting report cards from DGCA’s examination branch at R K Puram public school.  Once these are collected, they then have to be submitted at the DCGA office but a number of recent cases revealed some people submitting forged papers being issued licences without any cross-checking.  PUtting the original results and all other relevant papers online would largely eliminate this problem.

Allied with this, the DCGA is undertaking a massive clean-up job reviewing past formsby undertaking checks on 40 flying schools and almost an equal number of MROs.  The two men tasked with the job, aviation secretary Nasim Zaidi and Bhushan, will be seconding personnel from both the Airports Authority of India and Pawan Hans to complete this job in next two to three months.  It is feasable they may also include retired personnel.

, , , , ,

Copyright © 2024 HeliHub

Website by Design Inc

Helihub logo

X