Actually I beg to differ... that they follow the ICAO on medicals, I think the whole medical system in India needs an overhaul and Pilots should be getting off their asses and getting it to happen instead of keeping the system in the dark ages and encouraging it to stay that way... plus come on what developed country demands all Class 1 medicals be done at only air force centers!
I think India is now the world leader is sillyness in Pilots medicals...if they say they are not willing to consider a JAA/EASA, CASA or FAA medical as equal to their own, and require Pilots to do a Indian medical also then just by this admission they are considering themselves a higher authority than all these developed countries and the ICAO and are not complying with the ICAO guidelines.
Oh and in the rest of the world a medical can generally be done in an hour or less, not half a day!
Last edited by itsbrokenagain; 2nd Oct 2010 at 03:22.