Foreigners wanting to join Indian carriers are requested before FATA is issued that their former employers provide details of your flying experience by mail directly to them. Indian companies are affected by this delays as DGCA imposes rules that do not have any jurisdiction away from India.
Several pilots have requested their former companies records of flying experience and other documents. If lucky, YOU as a former employee can get documents signed and stamped. This is as far as you can go assuming this info will suffice wherever you go. But forcing pilots to produce an email with flying experience to be sent directly to a third party by your former employer is mind boggling.
This is INDIAN DGCA latest requirement they will delay your FATA issuance or simply, they will put your job in jeopardy as a result. Indian Airliners cannot allow foreigners to fly Indian registered aircraft unless they have FATA issued.
Have Indian DGCA ever contemplated the fact that their jurisdiction is only within Indian territory? Do they follow international standards? The FAA has downgraded them due insufficient personnel overseeing all operations; are we now at the mercy of some inept individuals? Or perhaps retired Air India pilots who worked under repression in the past, and using this tactics as an excuse to ward off foreign workers in their home land?
It only affects Indian carriers, foreign pilots can always find new horizons with more transparency.
