{"id":303728,"date":"2019-12-02T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303728"},"modified":"2019-12-02T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:19:06","slug":"cat-iii-trained-captain-flying-as-passenger-asked-to-operate-indigo-flight-as-visibility-drops-at-igi-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cat-iii-trained-captain-flying-as-passenger-asked-to-operate-indigo-flight-as-visibility-drops-at-igi-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"CAT III-trained captain flying as passenger asked to operate IndiGo flight as visibility drops at IGI Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A pilot trained to land aircraft in low visibility (CAT III B), travelling as a passenger on IndiGo&#8217;s Pune-Delhi flight on Saturday morning, was asked to operate the flight as IGI Airport was reporting a declining visibility trend due to smog. The captain had operated a flight to Pune on Friday and was headed back home to Delhi as a passenger on 6E-6571.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After boarding was complete, we realised Delhi is experiencing a declining visibility trend. From mid-December on Delhi-bound early morning and evening flights, we roster both CAT III B-trained pilots. However, the low declining trend was witnessed suddenly on Saturday morning catching everyone completely unaware,&#8221; said IndiGo sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A pilot trained to land aircraft in low visibility (CAT III B), travelling as a passenger on IndiGo&#8217;s Pune-Delhi flight on Saturday morning, was asked to operate the flight as IGI Airport was reporting a declining visibility trend due to smog. The captain had operated a flight to Pune on Friday and was headed back home to Delhi as a passenger on 6E-6571. &#8220;After boarding was complete, we realised Delhi is experiencing a declining visibility trend. From mid-December on Delhi-bound early morning and evening flights, we roster both CAT III B-trained pilots. However, the low declining trend was [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303728","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=303728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}