30 FTOs found violating multiple safety rules: DGCA
After a series of accidents and incidents, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has audited 30 flying training organisations (FTOs) since March 21 and found them violating multiple safety regulations. The DGCA found in the audit that “the facilities at the airfield/training organization are not being maintained as per the requirements — runway surface was found worn out, wind sock was found torn or nonstandard.”
“False logging was observed in a few cases where dual flight had been logged as solo flight and in a few other cases the taxi time was calculated towards the instrument flying of the student pilot. Deficiencies,” it added.
