DGCA may soon liberalise criteria for drone pilot training
Bengaluru: India will soon allow airlines, state and central government agencies, universities and drone manufacturers to train pilots to fly remotely-operated aircraft, in a move that is expected to aid in the massive adoption of drones in the country.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has, in an as-yet unreleased draft guideline that ET has seen, liberalised the criteria for organisations that can train drone pilots. Current guidelines only allow flight training organisations, or FTOs, to undertake training and certification of drone pilots in India. Only 34 agencies conduct such training as of now.
