{"id":15183,"date":"2012-01-21T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=15183"},"modified":"2012-01-21T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T03:00:15","slug":"plan-to-fly-air-india-you-will-love-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2012\/01\/plan-to-fly-air-india-you-will-love-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to Fly Air India? You will love this one!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_15184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15184\" style=\"width: 351px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com.S3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/maharaja.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"293\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15184\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maharaja Welcomes YOU... in ishtyle! <\/figcaption><\/figure>Do you feel that your Air India flight landing is a bit bumpy?  Or the pilot doesn\u2019t seem quite sure when he comes out for his \u201cbio-break\u201d whether he has been pushing the right buttons?  You know that look, right?<\/p>\n<p>Or worse, he is coming out with the manual with the confused look asking <strong>YOU<\/strong> if he is getting the instructions to slow down the aircraft right.  Well, don\u2019t be surprised.<\/p>\n<p>The dude just failed flying the smaller aircrafts with the budget airlines AI Express.  As a prize, they promoted him to fly.. err\u2026 COMMAND the <strong>Boeing-777 aircrafts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a new audit report, by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Pilots-fail-test-for-small-planes-but-get-big-ones-to-fly\/articleshow\/11573872.cms\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">following observations<\/a> were made.  The AI Express seems to have become like a feeding ground for the larger sibling \u2013 the Air India.  Even when the trainees there failures.  Heck the parents of the failures in AI Express are employees, officers and pilots of the larger brother \u2013 Air India itself!<\/p>\n<p>So, welcome to India, the Air India way!!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe records revealed that (two) captains failed (in AI Express)\u2026 during Instructor evaluation of DGCA (and were) recommended 200 hours of flying before the next attempt. These two were taken for a direct command on the widebodied Boeing-777 aircraft,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA P-2 (co-pilot) who failed in two attempts has now been taken up as P-2 (co-pilot) on Boeing-777, subsequently to be trained as commander on that type.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA pilot had a history of problems during landings (in AI Express) which were not addressed properly in training\u2026 it subsequently (led to) an incident with six bounces in a landing. This captain has also been taken up for command on Boeing-777 (in AI).\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you feel that your Air India flight landing is a bit bumpy? Or the pilot doesn\u2019t seem quite sure when he comes out for his \u201cbio-break\u201d whether he has been pushing the right buttons? You know that look, right? Or worse, he is coming out with the manual with the confused look asking YOU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":15184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corruption","category-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Plan to Fly Air India? 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