The Question is not about Any specific Airline in the country instead as This Thread Mainly concentrates on Is about the stagnation that has crept in and is stopping the growth in career as well as experience of the Young Indian Aviator as Well as The RAMPANT Discrimination against Senior Indian Aviators and COMMANDERS of the Same or even Much Higher Experience than the Present day Ex-Pats
The Ex-Pats defend their position saying that there are a lot of low time fliers flying in this country and that they are trying to educate them and bring them upto the level of proficiency required to fly. Without any prejudice, It is However Hard to believe. Mainly Because of the Following Reasons:
1. NO EX-PAT By far has EVER COME ACROSS as ever willing to help train a young Indian Aviator or help him get a job off his own free will or without personal interest. However, one may find many of them working hard to get more of their ex-pat friends into the Indian Aviation sector and further promoting their own interests, thereby STAGNATING the Growth of Indian Aviators despite of the Noticeable Growth in INDIAN Aviation Itself.
2.
All that the Ex-Pats do is keep the accident rate down
Well, Certainly most Ex-Pats who one may come across on a daily basis are basically the one's who retired from their companies back home when the old 58yr retirement rule persisted or the one's who were let off due to reason of age, lack of professional competence as compared to the other pilots in the company (mostly because of weeding during recession), or health even after the 65 yr retirement rule came in.
Most of them are either suffering from one or more problems of old age, Suffer Higher rate of Exhaustion, Endurance is much lesser towards pilot stress.
And Untill Last year (When SO MANY EX-PAT ACCIDENTS and INCIDENTS came to light) Didn't even need an Indian Class 1
3. Another Point On "SAFETY"- RADIO AIDS!
Many foreign pilots (specially those with a strong accent) Either have a hard time Understanding the ATC or they have a Hard Time Making the ATC understand what they want! This in fact has been the MAIN CAUSE for most of the incidents that have taken place in the recent years.
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extremely low-time pilots flying these jets
Well that's exactly what the point is about raising the question of stagnation! Low-time pilots cannot become high time pilots till they fly more and get trained faster and better by the airline. WHICH as the Aforementioned letter points out...is not happening And the Main Reason being STAGNATION & Blockage Being Caused because of Ex-Pats.
5. Also, It is to be noted that the letter NO-WHERE mentions or promotes making low-time pilots fly, However It does bring forth the point that there are
AMPLY QUALIFIED INDIAN PILOTS (FOs) Ready to be PROMOTED! which in turn of course will open up training arenas for the younger lot. (So the question of Low-time pretty much goes out the window here)
6. Anyway FINALLY ALL SAID & DONE,
even if ALL these points are Over looked then there is still one thing, Whatever Happened to The
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT of " EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK! "
Oh wait I forgot the Ex-Pats don't Even Work Equally...so that's another bump in the road there...So Our Ex-Pat friends are Not Only being Paid MORE , in-fact they are being PAID MORE FOR LESS WORK!
It is Sad that Even though we In India have the Capability to Rule Any International field with our Knowledge, In our own country we end up treating our own people as 2nd class citizens.
Anybody who may have Questions or Require Confirmations about the SAFETY maintained by ex-pat pilots in India, may refer the following link:
DGCA toughens rules; clean record must for expat pilots - Economic Times