{"id":474667,"date":"2022-03-10T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=474667"},"modified":"2022-03-10T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:07:00","slug":"beware-of-fake-drone-pilot-training-schools-dgca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/beware-of-fake-drone-pilot-training-schools-dgca\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of fake drone pilot training schools: DGCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A number of \u201cfake\u201d remote drone pilot training organisation (RPTO) \u2014 those falsely claiming to be recognised by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) \u2014 have mushroomed across India as the sunrise sector holds the promise of providing jobs to a large number of trained unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) licence holders.<br \/>\nThe regulator has now sounded an alarm over this malpractice so that people don\u2019t get duped by those running these fake training schools.<br \/>\n\u201cIt has come to the notice of the DGCA\u2026 that numerous fake (unrecognised by DGCA) RPTOs are offering remote pilot training programme, claiming to be approved by DGCA to lure the candidates by misleading advertisement\u2026. be careful about such self-styled, unrecognised institutions which are functioning in contravention of Drone Rules 2021. List of DGCA approved RPTOs is available @ https:\/\/digitalsky.dgca.gov.in\/flight-training-organizations ,\u201d DGCA chief Arun Kumar said in a public notice on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A number of \u201cfake\u201d remote drone pilot training organisation (RPTO) \u2014 those falsely claiming to be recognised by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) \u2014 have mushroomed across India as the sunrise sector holds the promise of providing jobs to a large number of trained unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) licence holders. The regulator has now sounded an alarm over this malpractice so that people don\u2019t get duped by those running these fake training schools. \u201cIt has come to the notice of the DGCA\u2026 that numerous fake (unrecognised by DGCA) RPTOs are offering remote pilot training programme, claiming [&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-474667","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\/474667","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=474667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}