{"id":287706,"date":"2019-08-19T06:41:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287706"},"modified":"2019-08-19T06:41:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:41:17","slug":"dgca-examining-introduction-of-multi-crew-pilot-license-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-examining-introduction-of-multi-crew-pilot-license-system\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA examining introduction of multi-crew pilot license system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is looking at the option of introducing a new pilots training programme that will focus more on competitive assessment rather than just fixed flying hours. The introduction of Multi-Crew Pilot License (MPL) programme &#8212; which is in place in many European countries &#8212; could be an alternate mode that would be more efficient and quicker, a senior DGCA official said.<br \/>\nThe DGCA has constituted a committee to look into the &#8220;pros and cons of MPL&#8221;, as per an order issued by the regulator.<br \/>\nThe MPL programme shifts the focus from &#8220;prescriptive flying hours requirements to competency-based training and assessment&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is looking at the option of introducing a new pilots training programme that will focus more on competitive assessment rather than just fixed flying hours. The introduction of Multi-Crew Pilot License (MPL) programme &#8212; which is in place in many European countries &#8212; could be an alternate mode that would be more efficient and quicker, a senior DGCA official said. The DGCA has constituted a committee to look into the &#8220;pros and cons of MPL&#8221;, as per an order issued by the regulator. The MPL programme shifts the focus from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}