{"id":648782,"date":"2025-10-04T11:08:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648782"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:07:35","slug":"explainer-all-thats-wrong-with-pilot-training-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/explainer-all-thats-wrong-with-pilot-training-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: All that\u2019s wrong with pilot training schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>None of the 35 flying training organisations evaluated by the aviation watchdog last week received an A+ or A rating.  Training infrastructure &amp; safety standards are the weakest links, raising doubts about the quality of these training schools &amp; the pilots they are producing, writes Nitin Kumar <\/p>\n<p>l  What does the DGCA report say? <\/p>\n<p>THE DIRECTORATE GENERAL of Civil Aviation (DGCA) last week released its first-ever rankings of Flying Training Organisations (FTOs). The report revealed that not a single one of the 35 FTOs evaluated received an A+ or A rating, meaning none achieved a score of 70% or higher across key parameters such as safety standards, performance, compliance, student support, and operational adherence to regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of the 35 flying training organisations evaluated by the aviation watchdog last week received an A+ or A rating. Training infrastructure &amp; safety standards are the weakest links, raising doubts about the quality of these training schools &amp; the pilots they are producing, writes Nitin Kumar l What does the DGCA report say? THE DIRECTORATE GENERAL of Civil Aviation (DGCA) last week released its first-ever rankings of Flying Training Organisations (FTOs). The report revealed that not a single one of the 35 FTOs evaluated received an A+ or A rating, meaning none achieved a score of 70% or higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648782","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}