{"id":648501,"date":"2025-10-01T11:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648501"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:22:30","slug":"no-flying-school-in-india-gets-a-or-a-in-dgcas-first-ever-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-flying-school-in-india-gets-a-or-a-in-dgcas-first-ever-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"No flying school in India gets A+ or A in DGCA&#8217;s first ever ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: No flying training organisation (FTO) in India has been placed in the top A+ or A category in the first ever ranking done of flying schools here by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.<\/p>\n<p>This ranking \u2014 a brainchild of DGCA chief Faiz Ahmed Kidwai \u2014 was to start from Oct 1 and the regulator made the list public on Tuesday. Based on multiple parametres like safety record and time taken to complete required flying to earn a commercial pilot licence (CPL), these two categories require a score of 70% and above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: No flying training organisation (FTO) in India has been placed in the top A+ or A category in the first ever ranking done of flying schools here by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. This ranking \u2014 a brainchild of DGCA chief Faiz Ahmed Kidwai \u2014 was to start from Oct 1 and the regulator made the list public on Tuesday. Based on multiple parametres like safety record and time taken to complete required flying to earn a commercial pilot licence (CPL), these two categories require a score of 70% and above.<\/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-648501","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\/648501","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=648501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}