Capt Gaurav Agrawal CPL FAA USA

Extract from book

I was on a night X-C during my time building flights, just in a
vicinty of my home airport, i had a complete failure of the cockpit
lights n i had to land the aircraft using the flash light. i had a
good amount of hours of solo flying and it as it was my home airport
so could land the plane safely.

During a local flight, soon after take off in the downwind leg, my
door flung open. Thankfully, i was still in the pattern so i could
land the plane and close it before continuing the flight.

Once, on a cross country flight,at an airport on the take off run,
right before d plane got airborne the control column shaft got
displaced off its console buh fortunately i had a very long runway
before me.. so i immediately landed and got it repaired beofre i flew
back.

all the above mentioned incidences happened because of the poor state
of aircrafts and maintainance facility at our school. in fact my
school was famous for many fatal crashes who claimed the lives of
indian students and some had very close calls buh sustained major
injuries.

Scene at DGCA office, Safdarjung , Delhi, India
I had to get my NOC (which is required to get ur medicals done in case
u get ur medical done after it lapses) so with all the required
documents and application i went to the the office. Not being a
localite from Delhi, i requested the gentleman at the desk to try and
issue it to me the same day. He was just not ready to cooperate and
instead told me that he has to work according to the 'procedure' and
asked me to come and collect the letter on the third working days as
per the so called 'procedure'!
Despaired and tired i left from there.
So, after two days as told by the officer i was back again at the
office. As soon as i met him and inquired whether my letter was ready
or not, he tells me 'arey kaunsa letter bhai.. kya chahiye tumhe???'
to which i politely told him that i had come two days back and
submitted an application for d issue of NOC.  at first he tried to
prove that i never submitted the application and the documents at the
first place!!!! and asked me to come after two more days. buh then
after showing him the recieved stamp of the documents he got ready to
look into he matter buh asked me to come and 'boher' him after an hour
or so. buh i kept hanging around in the office and then i discovered
that there were many ppl with me who had similar or some wat similar
issues and so we all were just waiting.

Now here's the best part.. buh before that.. i wanna say something
that i really respect women and am not being male chauvinist here..
So, here we were waiting for them to look into our respective
problems.. just then this very attractive and pretty looking girl
walks in. without any documents or anything. she walks upto this same
guy who had asked us to wait. and asks her ' sir.. mujhe NOC chahiye..
kahan se milega? ' to our surprise, the officer left everything and
got out of his seat to help her.. and he asks her ' tera naam kya
hai?' to which i dont remember wat d girl said buh then he said ' le!
aye ki nou honda!.. aye ta punjabiyan da naam honda hai' and then he
went on to not only dictate her the contents of the application buh
also issue her the NOC right then and there.. and she was like out of
that place in flat half an hour!! we coudlnt believe on our eyes on
wat we just saw! we were like wtf just happened right now! buh then
all of us got together and took control of things there.. created some
hue cry due to which all of us got our work done quickly!

Howmuch ever we can laugh on these incidences buh actually it is so
sad that pilots have to go through so much trouble by our own
governing body i.e The DGCA.. its high time DGCA improves the work
culture at these offices. Hopefully that day comes soon! Amein!! :)

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