Chimes Aviation Academy – Deccan Express

Dev Punj, Vice President, Chimes Aviation Academy (CAA)Gurugram (Haryana) [India], August 14: Ask a room full of parents in India what they want their child to become, and you’ll hear ‘doctor’, ‘engineer’, or ‘maybe a civil servant’. Somewhere down the list, if it comes up at all, someone will mention pilot – usually followed by a comment about how expensive it is or how it’s “an uncertain path” or “whether it is a practical career at all”. Nobody says that about medicine, even though medicine is expensive too. Nobody says it about engineering.That gap is worth sitting with, because it isn’t really about money. It’s about how we talk about the professions themselves.Three professions, one ...

Cadets in Training at CAA’s Neemuch AirfieldGurugram (Haryana) [India], July 21: Somewhere above the Arabian Peninsula right now, there is a good chance a pilot trained in the heartland of India – Madhya Pradesh, to be precise – has their hands on the controls of a jet flying across international skies. They may be in the cockpit of an Emirates Boeing 777, a Qatar Airways Airbus A350, or an Air Arabia narrowbody threading its way across the Gulf. And there is a good chance that the pilot is a graduate of Chimes Aviation Academy (CAA), a DGCA-approved Flying Training Organisation that quietly built itself into one of India’s prominent pilot training institutions over the past 18 years.The numbers back this up. More than 1,000 CAA alumni are currently employe...

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Why Isn’t Aviation Spoken of in the Same Breath as Medicine and Engineering?- By Dev Punj, VP, Chimes Aviation Academy (CAA)

India-Trained, Globally Hired: How Chimes Aviation Academy (CAA) Graduates Are Landing Cockpit Seats at Emirates, Qatar, and Air Arabia