{"id":293032,"date":"2019-09-21T07:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T07:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293032"},"modified":"2019-09-21T07:07:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T07:07:31","slug":"dgca-to-make-licence-mandatory-for-uav-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-to-make-licence-mandatory-for-uav-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA to make licence mandatory for UAV pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANGALURU: If everything goes smoothly, DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) would kick-start issuance of licenses to pilots flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) of various segments in India. This also means, for anybody to fly notified UAVs, licence shall be mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>The DGCA may start issuing licenses in another three to four months, a move which is being hailed by many professional pilots and seen as a positive step towards streaming the profession. It should be noted this rule is applied to UAVs weighing above 2 kilograms. There won&#8217;t be any requirement of licence for those flying drones or aeroplanes between 250 grams to 2 kilograms. However, their flying machines should be registered with the DGCA and prior police permission should be secured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANGALURU: If everything goes smoothly, DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) would kick-start issuance of licenses to pilots flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) of various segments in India. This also means, for anybody to fly notified UAVs, licence shall be mandatory. The DGCA may start issuing licenses in another three to four months, a move which is being hailed by many professional pilots and seen as a positive step towards streaming the profession. It should be noted this rule is applied to UAVs weighing above 2 kilograms. There won&#8217;t be any requirement of licence for those flying drones or aeroplanes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293032","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}