The newest approval in this directory, a Hyderabad school whose fee page names six payment stages, ties each to a flying hour count, and lists what it does not cover.
ARCA Global Aviation holds the most recent approval of any organisation on this page, and its fee page is the most explicit about milestones of any school in phase 2. Six stages, each with its own amount, each tied to a point in the course, from the assessment you pay before anything to the last instalment before the final fifty hours of flying.
The stage amounts add up exactly to the printed total, which is a small thing that says something: somebody checked the arithmetic before publishing it, which is not true of every fee sheet in this directory.
The admission route is a real process rather than an enquiry form. There is an academic and psychometric assessment covering physics, mathematics, English and reasoning, then a provisional offer and a training services agreement, then a viva with the training panel and the chief flight instructor. The school says seats are limited by the regulator's aircraft to trainee ratios.
The regulator prints approval 01/2026 against this organisation, records its ownership as Private Ltd, and gives the approval as valid to 12 March 2031.
The DGCA list records 2 single engine and 1 multi engine, types Tecnam P2010 TDI and Tecnam P2006T. The school's fleet page names the same two types and calls the fleet 'among the newest in India' but prints no aircraft counts at all, so there is no number to compare against the regulator's.
| What | Our source records |
|---|---|
| Registered name | ARCA Global Aviation Private Limited |
| Bases | Hyderabad, Telangana |
| Aircraft | 2 single engine and 1 multi engine aircraft on the regulator's list, being Tecnam P2010 TDI, Tecnam P2006T |
| Courses | Commercial Pilot License (CPL), 18 to 24 months. Private Pilot License (PPL), 6 to 8 months. Ground Classes, 3 to 4 months. Flight Instructor Rating (FIR), 3 to 6 months. License Renewal, 1 to 2 weeks. Foreign License Conversion, 2 to 4 weeks |
| Figures checked | 8 September 2026 |
DGCA ranking, 1 April 2026 edition: not ranked in the 1 April 2026 edition. The regulator's own reason, printed against its name, is: Ranking not applicable as the FTO did not complete 18 months (1.5 years) as on 28.02.2026 from date of approval.
The regulator publishes a letter and a serial number and no score at all, so there is nothing behind the letter to inspect and nothing here to rank schools against each other by. The bands the letters come from, and how many organisations sit in each on this edition, are set out on the flying schools in India index.
| What you pay for | Amount | What the figure is |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial pilot licence course, the school's own published total | ₹64,39,500Published | As the source prints it: Total Course Fee Rs 64,39,500. Stage 1 assessment at enrolment (non-refundable) Rs 37,500; Stage 2 admission confirmation before SPL and FRTOL classes, within one week of the entrance test, Rs 5,00,000; Stage 3 before flight training up to 50 hours Rs 15,50,000; Stage 4 before 51 to 100 hours or the 4th month, whichever is earlier, Rs 16,00,000; Stage 5 before 101 to 150 hours or the 7th month plus IR training Rs 16,00,000; Stage 6 before 151 to 200 hours or the 10th month Rs 11,52,000. |
| Assessment at the time of enrolment, non-refundable, included in the total | ₹37,500Published | Inside the course total above. |
Every figure above: read from the school's own fee page, checked 8 September 2026.
| How far to trust it | What the source says |
|---|---|
| Published, and inside the figure | The stages cover the assessment, SPL and FRTOL classes, and flight training through 200 hours including instrument rating training. |
| Published, and inside the figure | The courses page adds that the CPL programme covers 200 hours total flying, instrument rating training and a multi-engine endorsement on the Tecnam P2006T. |
| Published, and outside the figure | DGCA examination fees, medical expenses and statutory charges are additional. Landing and navigation charges are additional for cross-country flights. |
| Published, and outside the figure | Trainee insurance will be charged separately once a corporate tie-up is in place. The page states the fee may be revised for fuel price movements and inflation. |
Four stages. Stage 1 eligibility screening: 10+2 with Physics, Mathematics and English, a valid or in-process DGCA Class 2 or Class 1 medical, minimum age per DGCA, and basic English. Stage 2 an academic and psychometric assessment covering basic Physics, Mathematics, English proficiency and logical reasoning, plus decision-making, stress tolerance and situational awareness. Stage 3 a provisional admission offer, signing the Training Services Agreement, and SPL and FRTOL training. Stage 4 a viva with the training panel, an interactive session with the Chief Flight Instructor and assessment by the Chief Ground Instructor or training team. The page says admission is merit-based and subject to seat availability under DGCA aircraft-to-trainee ratios, and that seats are limited each intake. Eligibility is checked through a Google Form, which was not filled in.
Trainee insurance is described as a charge that will be added later once a corporate tie-up is in place, so there is no amount to plan for yet.
The school names no aircraft counts of its own, so the only fleet numbers on this page are the regulator's.
Nothing above is the whole cost of becoming a pilot. Our pilot training cost in India page has the full stack from the medicals to the type rating, and CPL course fees in India puts this school's licence figure next to the rest of the market.
Not yet, and the reason is printed against its name: the ranking exercise excludes an organisation that had not completed eighteen months since approval at the cut-off date. That is a statement about how new the approval is, not about how it trains.
In six stages tied to the course rather than to the calendar alone. The assessment is due at enrolment and is not refundable, admission confirmation follows the entrance test, and the remaining stages fall before named blocks of flying hours or named months, whichever comes first.
The examination fees the regulator charges, medical expenses and statutory charges are all extra, and landing and navigation charges on cross country flights are billed on top. The school also reserves the right to revise the fee for fuel prices and inflation.