New Delhi: In what could further stretch India's bid to ask the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for an upgrade of its air safety rating to category 1, US-based consultant, The Wicks Group (TWG), has asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to first complete the training of all its new technical personnel before it decides to apply for a fresh safety audit.
TWG, which has been hired to work for a year with the DGCA under a bilateral assistance programme funded by the United States Trade and Development Agency, gave this advice after its first survey early June. It will now conduct a second survey this month, a top civil aviation ministry official told FE.
“TWG has completed one survey, and will come back for another this month. They have asked us to finish training of all new appointments. We have to be completely sure that we are ready before we approach the FAA,” the ministry official said.
While the FAA had been downgraded India's air safety rating January this year citing inadequate infrastructure for safety oversight with the DGCA, the process of seeking an upgrade through a fresh safety audit has already been delayed from its first target of June because of slower-than-expected hiring of Flight Operations Inspectors (FOIs). The aviation ministry is now targeting August for a fresh audit.
03/07/14 Roudra Bhattacharya/Financial Express
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TWG, which has been hired to work for a year with the DGCA under a bilateral assistance programme funded by the United States Trade and Development Agency, gave this advice after its first survey early June. It will now conduct a second survey this month, a top civil aviation ministry official told FE.
“TWG has completed one survey, and will come back for another this month. They have asked us to finish training of all new appointments. We have to be completely sure that we are ready before we approach the FAA,” the ministry official said.
While the FAA had been downgraded India's air safety rating January this year citing inadequate infrastructure for safety oversight with the DGCA, the process of seeking an upgrade through a fresh safety audit has already been delayed from its first target of June because of slower-than-expected hiring of Flight Operations Inspectors (FOIs). The aviation ministry is now targeting August for a fresh audit.
03/07/14 Roudra Bhattacharya/Financial Express
