CAE Oxford Aviation Academy Gondia / NFTI offers a compact, focused 19 month program designed to prepare you to become a professional airline pilot. All courses meet International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) syllabus standards. Upon successful completion, you will have obtained all appropriate ab-initio ratings including your Commercial Pilot License (CPL) with Instrument Rating (IR) and Multi-Engine Rating (ME).

You will be trained using best practices developed from CAE's extensive experience in training professional
pilots -- throughout the CAE Global Academy network as well as CAE's worldwide training centre network where tens of thousands of airline and business aviation pilots train every year.

Ground School:

Here's where you'll gain the knowledge you need to take off. The first four months of training are dedicated to aviation theory and a solid comprehension of basic math and physics.

Ground school subjects include:

Meteorology

Air regulations

Radio transmission

Navigation training

General technical training

Aircraft-specific technical training (for our DA 40 and DA 42 aircraft)

Sound knowledge of math and physics, particularly the following subjects, will help you master your ground school:

Basic trigonometry

Ratios and proportion

Basic algebra

Indices

Properties of a circle

Time/speed/distance calculations

Equations of motion

Newton's laws

Equation of continuity

Bernoulli's theorem

Sound challenging? It certainly is, however it is the material you will need to know throughout your aviation career.

Our instructors will prepare you for the mandatory Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) examinations. The exams will be taken according to the DGCA schedule and spread out over the whole course of your training program.

Flight Training

This is what you really come to flight school for. You'll take off with our experienced flight instructors in our new Diamond trainer aircraft. And when you land after your first solo flight, it's a rush you'll never forget.

Flight training is divided into various lesson elements, and you will fly approximately 200 hours during your time in Gondia:

185 hours on single-engine DA40 CS

15 hours on multi-engine DA42