Professional Airline Pilot US for Indian students

Why is this the best program for Indian students?

Why enroll with  Veritastech Pilot Academy?

  • Strategic Approach: veritastech pilot academy understands that simply having the minimum required pilot licenses is not enough to secure a position with top aviation companies. They emphasize the importance of standing out and being unique among other candidates. veritastech pilot academy provides a strategic approach to help pilots differentiate themselves and make a lasting impression on airline recruitment teams.

  • Comprehensive Support: veritastech pilot academy offers a personalized team of strategists, career mentors, and airline employment consultants who provide invaluable guidance and support throughout the pilot’s career journey. These experts offer insights, advice, and mentoring to help pilots enhance their experience, knowledge, qualifications, and employment references, setting them apart from the competition.

  • Industry Knowledge: With their deep understanding of the aviation industry, veritastech pilot academy is equipped to provide pilots with up-to-date information on airline hiring standards and requirements. This knowledge helps pilots align their efforts effectively and efficiently to meet these standards and increase their chances of securing their dream job.

  • Career Development: veritastech pilot academy is committed to the long-term success of pilots in the competitive world of commercial aviation. They provide career development resources and assistance to ensure pilots are well-prepared and positioned for growth opportunities in their aviation careers.

  • Prestigious Airline Opportunities: By enrolling with veritastech pilot academy and benefiting from their expertise, pilots can increase their chances of receiving job offers from prestigious airlines. veritastech pilot academy insights and support can help aspiring pilots fulfill their dreams of working for the world’s leading aviation companies.

As a leading aviation training and airline pilot career development consulting agent serving the largest international market, veritastech pilot academy offers a tailored approach, expert support, and valuable industry knowledge to help pilots maximize their potential, stand out from the crowd, and achieve their desired career goals in the aviation industry.

Why holding a commercial pilot license will not land you an airline job?

Let’s face the truth: the top airlines have high pilot recruitment standards that go beyond the basic qualifications of a newly-graduated commercial pilot. The goal for student pilots is to attain the necessary flight time, licensing, and aeronautical experience to become employable by these airlines, which means gaining an edge over the vast applicant pool competition, not just satisfying the basic legal commercial pilot qualification requirements.

Most international student pilots aim for first officer positions with prestigious passenger carriers such as Emirates, Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways, Cathay Pacific, Eva Air, AHK, Fly Dubai, ANA, and more. These airlines hire pilots from diverse citizenship and ethnic backgrounds on multi-year contracts. However, securing these coveted positions requires meeting specific requirements that newly-graduated commercial pilots may not fulfill.

These requirements typically include holding a full, unrestricted Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) issued by a recognized ICAO member state. Preferably, the license should be from a developed, English-speaking country like the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and others. This ensures a high level of English language proficiency, which airlines consider crucial. It also helps verify that the pilot has acquired their qualifications legitimately and not through fraudulent means, which unfortunately can be an issue in some developing countries’ flight training industry.

Furthermore, significant aeronautical experience is necessary, usually exceeding 1500 flight hours, with a balanced combination of propeller and turbine/jet flight time. For a newly-graduated CPL holder with only 200 hours of flight time, achieving these qualifications and experiences can be a significant challenge, considering the high cost of acquiring flight hours. This is why many new pilots face the dilemma of gaining the required transitional aeronautical experience, leading them to search for underpaid and potentially risky jobs like bush-flying or banner-towing. Some even give up on their aviation dreams in frustration and let their pilot licenses expire, seeking employment in other industries. However, there are alternatives to this discouraging path.

veritastech pilot academy , with its team of consultants who are experienced current (or retired) airline pilots, has developed fully-integrated flight training and internship programs to address this transitional experience challenge. These programs offer a comprehensive solution, taking students from zero experience or any other level they have already achieved to obtaining a full FAA (United States) and TCCA (Canada) ICAO Airline Transport Pilot Licenses. In the process, students gain valuable propeller and/or turbine experience, meeting the pilot recruitment requirements of major airlines that hire contract pilots for long-term, well-paid positions.

By providing a structured training program and internship opportunities, veritastech pilot academy equips its students with the qualifications and experience necessary to stand out and succeed in the competitive airline job market.

 How does this program achieve its objectives?

The FPAP-US program is unique: a very few flight training facilities in the World offer a full Airline Transport Pilot License program because it requires at least 1500 hours of flight time in various flight regimes. However, we are able to offer you this program because our FTP is an accredited by the FAA flight academy which has a special permission from the USCIS to issue our students not just a regular flight training visa (M-1) but a full academic visa (F-1). Such visa allows our students to study and, after the achievement of CPL and CFI licenses, undergo structured pilot internships as certified flight instructors and commercial turbine pilots in the United States, regardless of their country of citizenship. In contrast, a regular flight student M-1 visa does not effort any internship opportunities. The F-1 visa internships allow our graduates to build enough flight time to qualify for a full, unrestricted FAA/ICAO Airline transport Pilot License. Yes, a real deal. Not a “Frozen” ATPL (which is just another form of a basic 200-hour CPL), not a “Restricted” ATPL (again it’s just a fancy name for a basic CPL), but a full, unrestricted ATPL. The one that the World airlines actually want their pilots to have at the recruitment events and career fares. The one that comes with the real-life employment experience, employer recommendation letters, safety records, etc – all serving as proof that some other companies have already entrusted this pilot with expensive airplanes and priceless lives and he or she did not disappoint. This is the assurance that the world-class airlines want from the resumes of the pilots they are looking to hire.

More and over, our advanced pilot internship partners are able to conditionally offer U.S. and international commercial pilot internship options to all our graduates in order to ensure that students continue developing their aviation careers and widen their aeronautical experience thus becoming more competitive on the current airline employment market. This is why, upon completion of all the internships offered to our students, our company guarantees comprehensive airline employment placement program for pilots who want to work in the leading airlines based in the Middle East, South-East Asia, Central America and Europe.Whatsapp : https://wa.me/918015221365?text=Hello  

Highlights of the academy

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Program Structure and Time-line

This program is structured in such a way that every segment leads our students to the ultimate goal: employment in the airlines. The program is divided into the following stages:

#PhaseDurationLocation
1Enrollment1 weekIndia
2DGCA ATP Ground School3 monthsIndia
2CPL/AMEL/ASEL Course10 monthsUSA
3CFI/CFII/MEI Course2 monthsUSA
4CPT Internship (Flight Instructor)6 monthsUSA
5OPT Internship (Instructor or Commercial Pilot)12 monthsUSA
7FAA Airline Transport Pilot License2 weeksUSA
8DGCA Airline Transport Pilot License2 weeksIndia
7AInternational Internship (Ferry Pilot)18 monthsHong Kong
7BAirline Pilot Placement Assistance6 monthsIndia, World

Total duration of the program is approximately two and a half years, including flight instructor internships in the United States, which takes another 18 months, and not including Structured internship International as ferry pilot, which is limited to 18 months (Option 5). All stages of flight training are conducted in the United States to a very high standard by an accredited flight academy “Pelican Flight Training”. After the completion of flight training phases, student will be offered internship as a flight instructor and an ability to build a very important to his/her career development flight time. After pilot achieves 1500 hours of flight time, student will be able to obtain his/her full, unrestricted FAA/ICAO Airline Transport Pilot License and proceed with the option 1 (5A) or option 2 (5B) – either working as a first officer at the target airlines, continue building flight hours as an international ferry pilot in Hong Kong. This internships will allow students to continue gaining valuable experience working as a professional pilots and building more complex turbine and cross-country flight time. The main program objective is to provide our graduates with the permanent airline employment placement at the industry leaders such as Fly Dubai, Emirates, Qatar, Cathay Pacific, Air Asia, Lion Air, Singapore Airlines, Air China, Chinese Airlines, Air Hong Kong, Malaysian Airlines, Jet Star, Tiger Air and many more.

More details about the program and its phases:

 

  • Phase 1 – Enrollment

At this stage, student will be required to complete enrollment application form and provide documents for initial consideration by our company. After application details and document screening, student will be contacted for the initial interview to check his/her knowledge of English and conduct the initial screening for the program suitability. (The full list of enrollment requirements is published here >>>) Once all requirements are satisfied, the student will be furnished with the flight training agreement and allocated a ground school class start date. The student will need to make a payment of 5% of the full training cost (to ensure high visa approval rate) and pay all the related administrative fees. The enrollment is conducted with the assistance of our main Indian partner WWW.veritastechpilotacademy.org

  • Phase 2 – DGCA ATP Ground School

DGCA Ground School & Exams (3 months). In order to ensure that our graduates have a wide spectrum of domestic and international airline employment opportunities with a diverse number of air carriers, as well as to lay foundation for a swift Canadian visa approval process, the students will be required to take DGCA (ICAO-India) ground school and sit through the DGCA theoretical CPL and ATPL exams. The classes are conducted by our Indian partner  www.veritastechpilotacademy.org

  • Phase 3 – PPL & CPL Licenses

After arrival in the United States at our flight training center, called “Pelican Flight Academy” a student will undergo a short FAA pilot medical. After this, student will start his/her theoretical and practical training: ground school and flying. We aim to conduct at least 3-4 hours of ground school every day and 2-3 hours of flight training together with the ground school. The flight training segment will be subdivided into Private, Instrument, Commercial courses, each giving the student a higher aeronautical license and grade. After completion of this phase, the student will be fully certified Commercial Pilots with FAA/ICAO licenses, rated to operate single-engine, multi-engine aircraft both in normal (VMC) and limited visibility (IMC) conditions. It takes 200 flight hours to complete this stage.

  • Phase 4 – CFI License

Students will then proceed to obtaining their Certified Flight Instructor license. This is necessary to facilitate the internship phase of our program which allows students to work as commercial pilot flight instructors and start building valuable flight time, as well as getting paid for their work. It takes 25 flight hours to complete this stage

  • Phase 5 – CPT Internship

Student, and at this point – a fully-qualified FAA commercial pilot and a flight instructor, will be offered opportunity to work as a flight instructor in our academy under the CPT (Curricular Practical Training) program using the unique F-1 visa employment permit benefits. During this period, student may obtain up to 500 hours of additional flight time. Approximately 25% of this flight time will be conducted on multi-engine aircraft. All of the flight time will be logged as PIC (Pilot-In-Command) and in a multi-crew environment. Expected instructor flight time is 80 hours per month, with the expected earnings of $800 – $1200 USD per month.

  • Phase 6 – OPT Internship

A student’s F-1 visa also offers a unique opportunity to work on the OPT (Optional Practical Training) program for an additional 12-24 months. Such program allows pilots to build additional piston or even turbine time in either flight school or a passenger/cargo charter environment. This options is available for students who completed their CPT, logged over 600 hours of flight time (200 during training and 400 during CPT internship) and have completed CPT with no incidents, no accidents, and commendations from the flight school’s chief CFI.

Want to work in the US airlines after this internship? You might qualifty under the EB-1 visa program!

  • Phase 7 – FAA ATP License

After Student completed his/her CPT and OPT internship, thus logging over 1500 hours of total flight time, he/she will become eligible to apply for a full, unrestricted Airline Pilot License issued under the FAA and ICAO regulations. This will be a full ICAO ATPL, giving a de facto authority to the student to become a commanding pilot on a large passenger category aircraft. An unrestricted ATPL license is a standard requirement for employment as a First Officer with most leading airlines in the Word. It is also the highest aeronautical certification that any pilot can ever achieve. It takes 2 weeks to complete this phase with our partner, ATP flight school.

  • Phase 8 – DGCA ATP License

At this stage student can convert his/her Canadian flight crew license to Indian flight crew license. The conversion process is fairly easy for those applicants who already passed their DGCA ATP exams with  www.veritastechpilotacademy.org and is fully-supported by them. This phase is not required, but recommended to ensure that students can apply for airline pilot positions in the domestic employment market. Despite the Indian market being competitive, our graduates will have a huge advantage over the competition, not only because they would have both ICAO Canadian pilot licenses and ICAO Indian pilot licenses, but also because they would be fully airline employment ready: with high total flight time, high jet flight time, and valuable airline environment flying experience,as well as excellent recommendation letters from several companies (www.veritastechpilotacademy.org)

  • Phase 7A – Ferry Pilot Internship

This optional internship course is offered to our graduates who have completed the CPT and OPT program as flight instructors and/or commercial pilots with good evaluations, showed fair professionalism and acceptable academic achievement, but who were unable to meet the Airline Pilot Internship standards at the time of graduation and need to continue building valuable flight time and grow their aviation experience by working as international aircraft delivery pilots for our international partner, Global Air Holding Ltd located in British Virgin Islands, Caribbean. This company is specializing in aircraft sales and delivery from the United States to Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia for their international clients. Expected pilot salary is $2000 – $2500 per aircraft transfer. After completion of this guaranteed internship phase, pilot can achieve over 2500 hours of flight time, including valuable turbine (turbo-prop) experience.

 
  • Phase 7B – Airline Placement

At this point, our company will continue fostering your pilot career by offering a comprehensive airline employment support with the leading airlines in Asian and Middle East. This service is offered to the full program graduates. There is no limit to the assistance program: we will continue our support until the graduates get permanent airline employment. Of course, it is conditional on the graduate’s passing the airline employment interview. Normally, placement programs take 3-6 months. Permanent employment in the United States may be achieved by qualified candidates through EB-1 visa application.