regarding pilot shortage in india
talking about shortage of pilots well it is a very bad situation now.
Many aspiring pilots are left in the lure as many flying clubs in india have lost their CFIs to the airlines.So without any CFIs no flying be done.And jet airways atr fleet is grounded as many of them wanted to move to the big jets and jet instead of promoting them within the fleet started recruiting new people into the 737 fleet hence most of the guys left them to join Kingfisher airlines on the A320.And besides kf has struck a good deal with airbus to train the pilots for free along with the a/c they buy.9 set(1capt &1 f/0) per a/c being trained.and dgca is implementing short term strategies to temporarily cushion the shortage effect but these wont work in the long term:-
First they increase the pilot retirement age to 61 from 60 i heard a rumour that they are going to again increase it to 62 in september.
Then they reduce the cfi hour requirement from 3000 hrs to 2500hrs
And then pl reduced to 200 from 250
Well very desperate moves from dgca
And people inspite of the shortage all the airlines are only allowed to recruit Captains and not expat f/os that too on contract basis
Oh by talking about shortage i deviated from the topic.Please moderators can we have an sub-continent forum.Please consider starting one for the benefit of pilots from the sub-continent countries.My vote is for a new froum for the subontinent