Namaskar, my name is Rupesh Jadhav & you are welcome to Rupeshfinancialexpert.
Who doesn’t want to wear a crisp uniform, travel to new locations, and at the end of every month take home a great salary, I don’t know about you, but at the end of every flight, I just stare at the pilots pulling their luggage, and getting into the bus with all, because they have the dream job, that most of our world, but the sad part is most of us know, how to become an engineer, or how to become a doctor, but the information on how to become a pilot, is know what that value which is, why flying a plane remains a dream for most of us, but that is something that we are going to change.
Today so in today’s blog, we are going to see what it really takes to be a pilot, and what are the different streams available basic requirements, that you’re supposed to meet even before you can think of becoming a pilot in India, how to become a pilot and the cost associated with it salary, that you can expect after becoming a pilot, but most importantly towards the end I’ll give you a bonus tip, which becoming a pilot obviously has its perks, but every coin has two sides, a friend who’s a captain in a reputed airline, and whose name I cannot disclose said that before deciding to become a pilot, one should know about its pros and cons, and I’ll tell you exactly what he told me, so that you make an informed decision about whether this is the right career, choice for you or not, look I’m in Finance Professional, because twelve years back I had no idea, what else to do but today thanks to the corporate world, and proper networking, I get to learn and meet people with different professions, doing what they love and I’m taking all of that wonderful information, and creating these how to become blogs starting, with how to become a pilot, because I want you to have the shot at different professions, that I never had but before that, if you like what I’m doing make sure you do the like and a comment also, because that motivates me to make more blogs, let’s begin.
What is a Pilot, a pilot is someone who needs to have multiple skills, they need to be good at their Math’s, physics need to have great communication skills, but more than that they need to be emotionally stable, physically fit and mentally sound, because I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to be in a plane 30,000 feet above ground with a pilot, who panics at every situation, now there are two different types of pilots, one who joined the Indian Air Force, and second our commercial pilots, commercials are, again divided into scheduled flights, and non-scheduled flights, scheduled flights are something that we normally take like indigo, with star Air Asia so on and so, forth non-scheduled flights are air ambulances charters corporates, so today I am going to read about how to become a commercial pilot, because joining the Indian Air Force comes with a different set of requirements, and if you want me to make a separate blog about that, then comment below and let me know, before you even think about education and training to become a pilot in India.
You first need to meet seven basic criteria, number one, you need to be a citizen of India, obviously your age at the time of application should be between 18 to 30, 35 it depends on the airline number, three having classes in order problem, as long as you have a six by six vision, with or without glasses, but you cannot have colour blindness, because you need to identify the navigation lights, plus the instruction and warnings in a flight desk are colour coded, and each of them have a different meaning number, five you need to pass class 12 with 55% at least, in physics math’s and English, individually that’s right just last wealth, but having a math background is essential, that does not mean that if you have a commerce or arts background, you cannot apply in those cases, through the National Institute of open school people, clear the math’s and physics and then apply, number six you need to be proficient in the English language. Because English is the international language for civil aviation, and why do you need a common language, simple reason because you don’t want to die, one of the reasons for aviation accidents is miscommunication as a pilot, you should be able to give clear instructions to your crew members, and also be able to follow instructions from the air traffic control, because forget the number of international languages, there’s so much of diversity in our country, that if the air traffic controller, can only speak Bengali, and if the pilot can only understand Telugu, then all of us are but learning English is not as difficult, as everybody makes it if you want to know how I learned to speak in English fluently. then check out this blog, I’ve written the blog.
Now the seventh, and the final requirement of becoming a pilot, is to have class 2 and class 1 medical certificates, which are basically a set of medical exams like ECG blood tests, urine tests. so on and so forth conducted to find out whether you’re physically fit or not, these tests are to be conducted only by a set of selected doctors, and I sent to the DGCA the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. now who are these doctors where to find them, what are these tears, so all of this information can be found out at dgca.nic.in.
Now after meeting the first CPL, seven criteria the next major thing that, you need to go after is called CP, and commercial pilot license, there are two ways to get it method. number one, caste step number one apply to a flying school, a flying school is where they’ll teach you theory, which includes subjects like system of clean a navigation aviation metrology, plus practical’s which includes 200 flight hours. needless to say, you need to pass both theory and practical’s to get your CPL, that is commercial pilot license, now it’s cool to apply, you can either apply to strong schools in India, or abroad for India. make sure you check the list of flight schools on the DGCA website, some of the top flying schools of our country as of today are a GRU a MPF, see Indore a bomb a flying club, the duration of the course is between 18 months to 2 years, some people also prefer applying to flying schools in Ufa Europe, New Zealand and Canada. Where you can complete the Kois between six months to twelve months. so, it’s your personal choice and depends on what you want to do step.
Number two, now after you get your CPA, the next thing to do is apply for a job in airlines, like indigo, Spice Jet Airways & go air. just go to their website search for jobs CP, and recruitment in particular and apply once. you get selected these airlines, will send you for another type of training called step, number three type rating, but see CPL is where you learn, how to fly a smaller plane, like a Cessna. but type rating is where you learn how to fly a bigger plane, for example if it’s indigo, they would want you to learn how to fly an Airbus, and in case of Jet Airways, or spice get. they will want you to learn, how to fly up boy. so, method one has three steps, step number one apply to a flying school, and get your CPM. step number two, apply for a job and get selected, and finally step number three, is to get your type rating training at the end, of which will become a commercial pilot. now method number two is simpler then method number one, but it is more expensive airlines like indigo and Jet Airways, have their own credit pilot programs. all you have to do is clear their entrance exams and interviews, and they will give you a job contract, and they will make sure that you get your CPL, and type rating training done.
Now how much will these two methods costs let’s start with method, number one, a flying school will cost somewhere between 38 to 45 lakhs, and type rating training will cost around 15 to 20 lakhs, so overall method, number one, will take around 60 to 80 lakhs, coming to method number two, the whole package will cost around one crore. some people prefer method number two, because here you first get a job and then you get trained by in method number one, you first get trained and then might have to wait some time before you get a job Plus, and method number one after you get a job some airlines, might want you to do their internal trainings and pay for that so you might have to shell out some more money. but unfortunately, they didn’t much scholarship available but if you cannot afford it, but still want to fly a plane and serve our country, then you can always join the Indian Air Force.
As a fresher your Salary, can apply to companies like indigo, Jet Airways, the spice trade and go area ratio etcetera, when you join as a junior first Officer, you will get a stipend of around Rs. 25,000 per month some companies also pay 70, some pay or lack, some don’t pay at all but once you get promoted to a first officer, you can draw somewhere around 2 lakhs per month, as a captain you can get somewhere around 6 lakhs per month, but once you become a Czech pilot, you can draw somewhere between 7.5 to 12 lakhs per month, now apart from the course fees and the salary, there are few other things that, you should know before you decide whether you want to be a pilot or not, but before you should know what the cons are, I know of two number one, being a pilot is extremely stressful, because whenever you in the cockpit, not only are you responsible for your life, but for the life of hundreds of other people, traveling with you and needless to say. it is a risky job, and number two, all that travel might sound great, when you a bachelor but once you have a family, you will crave to spend more time with them, on ground rather than being in it, but hey there’s nothing that you can’t manage right, so if you think you can balance that out then go for it. Because, for you sky is literally the limit Plus, how many people can really boast about having an office location that is 30,000 feet, above ground on that note,
I promise to see you again next blog until then keep learning, keep earing and be happy.
