TOI: Soon, it'll be easier to become pilot

Now, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has recommended that anyone who has passed Class X with physics and maths — which almost all do — and then completed Class XII from any stream be considered eligible for becoming a pilot.

The only condition the new DGCA recommendation lays down is that students must have compulsorily studied physics as part of science in Class X — and not home science in place of physics, as is the option in some boards.

DGCA has sent this recommendation to the aviation ministry for clearance by minister Praful Patel.

Sources said a pilot needs to know things like conversion of different units, basic maths, trigonometry for calculating height and distance, speed of sound and light, differential pressure as well as torque and retardation. All these are taught in Class X.

Source: The Times of India