Everybody complains about time very often. No person will be there in this earth who does not complain about time at least once. Here I am sharing a few sentences about the value of time which I happened to read, from an unnoticed corner of a note book, this week. Now I am trying to find out the internal meaning of each word. I also request you to read and think this urgently and afterwards put it in to your real life.
One year: - Ask a student who has failed his exams
One month: - Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby
One week: - Ask an editor of a weekly magazine
One Day: - Ask a daily wage labour who has ten kids to feed
One hour: - Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet
One minute: - Ask a person who survived an accident
One mille Second: - Ask a person who won silver medal in Olympics.
Hope it will be beneficial for you.
SreerajPathari
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
For the remembrance of my first DGCA examination………
Wow! How fast things are getting changed!!!
At last, after completing two semesters successfully with 88%, my first license exam date came. Got up early (not as usual) for final preparation and left from hostel at 7 AM. The examination center was at Nedumbassery airport. Candidates from all over India were running here and there because of tension. I have been admitted to enter the Gate due to the unexpected rain. One of the attracting things which I could see over there was an old Lear jet 24 series aircraft & a fighter housed in one corner of the Hanger. I know Mr. Lear well from the beginning of my aviation career because I have experience in assembling Lear jet with Nithin Sharma, Maheender, Niranjan, Kashchit Solanki of Creative aviation (USA) & our Sajeshettan. I used to ask my doubts to these people on those days. Those days are unforgettable.
I was standing in front of the examination hall. I heard a voice from behind. A beautiful girl with nice smile asked me something in Hindi (might have confused that I am a north Indian?).
I told her “sorry, I don’t know Hindi much. If you want to communicate anything, you have to speak either in English or in Malayalam”. She realized my situation and asked in English. Northern pronunciation are little bit tough to follow but could understand easily. She wanted me to direct her into the examination Hall. I helped her to find out the correct class room and then I went to mine. Even though the classrooms were air-conditioned, they didn’t allow switching on a/c.
The invigilator was a rough person who was continuously making some kind of headache to all. He didn’t let anybody write the name of examination as Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR). He wanted everybody to write it as airworthiness requirement. What can we do but agree. Somehow we filled all required columns and started answering. First question was about motivation from human factors. Second one was the form no. for Authorized release certificate. Afterwards the attitude of the questions began changing. I became half paralyzed. In between questions from CAR were asked so that I could release my tension to an extent. Even though the name of the exam was CAR, they didn’t ask any question from it, in fact. Most of the questions were from CAR 21, CAR 145, CAR M and Human factors which are less likely to come normally. As it is, CAR M & CAR 21 are new issued portions, we never expected this much questions from it. What we were told is that we need not give much importance to new issued/amended portions, considering the possibility that the question papers would have prepared already.
After 2hrs, I had a doubt. What happened to other guys???-seems to be attending a funeral rite. I wondered because I am the only person sleeplessly reading the question paper. Others had already fallen asleep (“be in the land of nod”, ha! ha!). I was also suffering from sleepiness. I handover my answer sheet along with question paper to Mr.OK (because he was habituated with saying OK at the end of all sentences in an interesting manner).
Self-analyzing
What would you do normally (occasionally for bright students), once you couldn’t write your examination well. You would be trying to find out reasons to substantiate your failure, right. Let me also
Try to find out what went wrong here. It is well known that once you are supposed to study law aspects of civil aviation, constantly changing amendments must also be considered. Sometimes new portions will be added with existing one which our seniors might not have studied. Here, CAR 21 & CAR M are new for us. As far as I am concerned, for paper I examination, both fortune and memorizing power play the important roles. As it is not a technical subject, it will not influence your career much. Just passing paper I for the name sake is more than enough. However, the requirement of passing can not be replaced for our career. It is just like passing learner’s license before driving license (pilots also need to get passed Students pilot license (SPL) before PPL & CPL which is awarded by DGCA). No other branches of engineering demand 70% marks for passing. That means we are supposed to be proficient in our respective aero design or aero engines or systems. AMEs are entrusted with working in high security areas. Once we didn’t come up to the level of expectation, so much of lives will be lost – I remembered our CI’s words. He had mentioned: - no matter how long you would take to clear papers, but if you could pass the paper means you are qualified internationally. A typical bachelor degree will not get noticed globally. But an AME license is an internationally accepted one. Due to its toughness only, DGCA examinations are being conducted trice in year with a min.gap of 4 months for pilots and AMEs.
I saw a Boeing 737-700 heading towards the horizon sooner I left from my examination hall. I feel it indicates something……….
I don’t know whether I will be passing or not. I can remember 50% of the question which I have written. Reaching 70% seems not easy. I am leaving to the GOD. Let god decides whether I deserve it or not. Next examination is scheduled at February.
Hope you will pray for me…………………..
SreerajPathari
sreerajpathari@gmail.com
At last, after completing two semesters successfully with 88%, my first license exam date came. Got up early (not as usual) for final preparation and left from hostel at 7 AM. The examination center was at Nedumbassery airport. Candidates from all over India were running here and there because of tension. I have been admitted to enter the Gate due to the unexpected rain. One of the attracting things which I could see over there was an old Lear jet 24 series aircraft & a fighter housed in one corner of the Hanger. I know Mr. Lear well from the beginning of my aviation career because I have experience in assembling Lear jet with Nithin Sharma, Maheender, Niranjan, Kashchit Solanki of Creative aviation (USA) & our Sajeshettan. I used to ask my doubts to these people on those days. Those days are unforgettable.
I was standing in front of the examination hall. I heard a voice from behind. A beautiful girl with nice smile asked me something in Hindi (might have confused that I am a north Indian?).
I told her “sorry, I don’t know Hindi much. If you want to communicate anything, you have to speak either in English or in Malayalam”. She realized my situation and asked in English. Northern pronunciation are little bit tough to follow but could understand easily. She wanted me to direct her into the examination Hall. I helped her to find out the correct class room and then I went to mine. Even though the classrooms were air-conditioned, they didn’t allow switching on a/c.
The invigilator was a rough person who was continuously making some kind of headache to all. He didn’t let anybody write the name of examination as Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR). He wanted everybody to write it as airworthiness requirement. What can we do but agree. Somehow we filled all required columns and started answering. First question was about motivation from human factors. Second one was the form no. for Authorized release certificate. Afterwards the attitude of the questions began changing. I became half paralyzed. In between questions from CAR were asked so that I could release my tension to an extent. Even though the name of the exam was CAR, they didn’t ask any question from it, in fact. Most of the questions were from CAR 21, CAR 145, CAR M and Human factors which are less likely to come normally. As it is, CAR M & CAR 21 are new issued portions, we never expected this much questions from it. What we were told is that we need not give much importance to new issued/amended portions, considering the possibility that the question papers would have prepared already.
After 2hrs, I had a doubt. What happened to other guys???-seems to be attending a funeral rite. I wondered because I am the only person sleeplessly reading the question paper. Others had already fallen asleep (“be in the land of nod”, ha! ha!). I was also suffering from sleepiness. I handover my answer sheet along with question paper to Mr.OK (because he was habituated with saying OK at the end of all sentences in an interesting manner).
Self-analyzing
What would you do normally (occasionally for bright students), once you couldn’t write your examination well. You would be trying to find out reasons to substantiate your failure, right. Let me also
Try to find out what went wrong here. It is well known that once you are supposed to study law aspects of civil aviation, constantly changing amendments must also be considered. Sometimes new portions will be added with existing one which our seniors might not have studied. Here, CAR 21 & CAR M are new for us. As far as I am concerned, for paper I examination, both fortune and memorizing power play the important roles. As it is not a technical subject, it will not influence your career much. Just passing paper I for the name sake is more than enough. However, the requirement of passing can not be replaced for our career. It is just like passing learner’s license before driving license (pilots also need to get passed Students pilot license (SPL) before PPL & CPL which is awarded by DGCA). No other branches of engineering demand 70% marks for passing. That means we are supposed to be proficient in our respective aero design or aero engines or systems. AMEs are entrusted with working in high security areas. Once we didn’t come up to the level of expectation, so much of lives will be lost – I remembered our CI’s words. He had mentioned: - no matter how long you would take to clear papers, but if you could pass the paper means you are qualified internationally. A typical bachelor degree will not get noticed globally. But an AME license is an internationally accepted one. Due to its toughness only, DGCA examinations are being conducted trice in year with a min.gap of 4 months for pilots and AMEs.
I saw a Boeing 737-700 heading towards the horizon sooner I left from my examination hall. I feel it indicates something……….
I don’t know whether I will be passing or not. I can remember 50% of the question which I have written. Reaching 70% seems not easy. I am leaving to the GOD. Let god decides whether I deserve it or not. Next examination is scheduled at February.
Hope you will pray for me…………………..
SreerajPathari
sreerajpathari@gmail.com
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