AVIATION - 1

Personality

•Agility, stamina and good health are vital to attend to the stressful duties for long hours. Requires presence of mind, courage, physical fitness, determination, due to the risks which flying involves. They need to be self-confident and at east working with other people.

•Air hostesses must have a need appearance. They require a polite, pleasant and tactful manner with the ability to put people at east also described as ‘service aptitude’.

•Aircraft engineers must be able to work in all types of weather conditions. Ability to work as a team is needed. 

Work Options

•Air Hostess

•Meteorologist (Interprets Weather Data)

•Commercial à Airlines, Air services, Air Taxi

•Military à Air Force

•Pilots, Flight Attendants, Flight Despatchers, Flight Schedulers, Ground Crew, Flight Engineer

•Engineers & Technical Division

•Marketing à Advertisements

•Finance

•Fashion Designers à Crew dress designers

•Security/Safety Department

•Air Flow Control

•Ticketing/Commercial

Work Options

•         Communication Officers

•         Aerodrome Officers

•         Airworthiness Officers

•         Airport Mangers & Administrative Managers

Courses

•         Student Pilot License

–       Only Oral Exam

–       10^th Standard & 16 Years Age

•         Private Pilot License

–       Initial Flying Training

–       Theory Exam

–       60 Hours Flying

Courses, Institutes

•         Commercial Pilot License

–       250 Hours Flying

–       +2 with Maths & Physics

•         Commercial Helicopter Pilots License

–       40 Hours Flying

•         Aircraft Mechanics

–       B.Sc + 2 Years Practical Experience

–       +2 with Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engg

•         Air Traffic Controller

–       Engineering degree in Electronic/Radio/Telecom

•         Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Academy (IGRUA)

–       B.Sc (Aviation)

•         MIT, Madras

–       B.Tech from B.Sc or M.Tech