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Hi everyone, I am little worried about my son. He wants to become a Commercial Pilot. Right now, he is preparing for the Board exam of 12th standard and he want to study Aeronautical Engineering in BTech. So, through this course he can become a Commercial Pilot?

After completing graduation in Aeronautical Engineering, he can apply for Commercial Pilot Training Institutes.

On the basis of Aeronautical Engineering, one cannot become Commercial Pilot. However, he may achieve good knowledge of Aeronautical machines.

Some of the descent Pilot training institutes are listed below:

• Ahmedabad Aviation and Aeronautics, Ahmedabad
• Government Flying Training School, Bangalore
• Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi, Bareilly
• West Bengal Flying Training Institute, Kolkata
• Government Aviation Training Institute, Bhubaneswar
• Coimbatore Flying Club, Coimbatore
• Indian Aviation Academy, Mumbai
• Co-operative Flying Club Ltd, Jamshedpur
• All India Institute of Aeronautics, (AIIA), Dehradun
• Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy, Secunderabad

To get admission into these institutes, your ward will have to pass these stages:

• Written Exam (contains General Knowledge, Maths, English)
• Interview
• Mental Balance, Situation Handling, Medical Test