DGCA Rules

All aircraft personnel, including pilots and cabin crew members, will have to undergo a breath analyser test from October 15 onwards, with the DGCA lifting the related curbs that were in place due to the pandemic. Amid the pandemic, the breath analyser test that is done to check whether any crew member has consumed alcohol was limited to 50 percent of the aircraft personnel. Further, following an order passed by the Delhi High Court in May 2021, the number of breath analyser tests that can be conducted in one hour was…

Last Updated: August 27, 2022, 11:22 ISTRepresentational Image (Photo: Reuters)The PIC took corrective action, however, in the process, the horizontal stabiliser of the helicopter hit the edge of the helideckAviation regulator DGCA has suspended, for a period of six months, the license of a helicopter pilot, involved in an incident while landing on an offshore platform. The helicopter had descended below the desired flight path during the approach for landing on the helideck. A DGCA official said that this was also…