A state government institute in Odisha that publishes its whole commercial course hour by hour, calls it the First Officer Programme, and never prints a price.
The Government Aviation Training Institute in Odisha publishes a fuller description of its commercial course than most private academies manage, and no fee at all. Its First Officer Programme page sets out the ground school hours, the single engine hours, the multi engine hours and the simulator hours, and then sends you to a registration form.
Every page saved from the site was searched for a fee, a rupee amount, a currency abbreviation and the word used for a hundred thousand rupees. There is nothing. For a state government institute that is a real gap, because a government fee is normally the one number in this market a student can rely on being public.
There is one thing on the site to hold up against the regulator's list. The institute advertises a multi engine rating and simulator time on multi engine aircraft, while the regulator records no multi engine aircraft against this approval at all. Both are recorded on this page and neither is resolved.
The regulator prints approval 10/2016 against this organisation, records its ownership as State Government, and gives the approval as valid to 27 December 2027.
The site has a Fleet of Aircraft page but names no types on the pages read; nothing on the site contradicts the regulator's 3 single engine, no multi engine, Cessna 172, Cessna 152 and Virus SW. Note that the site advertises a multi engine rating and simulator time on multi engine aircraft while the regulator records no multi engine aircraft on strength.
| What | Our source records |
|---|---|
| Registered name | Govt. Aviation Training Institute |
| Bases | Dhenkanal, Odisha and Bhuvneshwar, Odisha |
| Aircraft | 3 single engine and no multi engine aircraft on the regulator's list, being Cessna 172, Cessna 152, Virus SW |
| Courses | First Officer Programme (CPL). Multi Engine Rating. Pre Type Rating module on Boeing 737-800. Foreign licence conversion. Simulator training. Ground school for CPL. Drone school and drone pilot training |
| Figures checked | 8 September 2026 |
DGCA ranking, 1 April 2026 edition: Category C, printed at serial 34. It held the same category in the 30 September 2025 edition, so the letter has not moved between the two.
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.
We hold no figure for this school that we would stand behind, so this page gives you none. Its fee is Not publishedon the school's own site, checked 8 September 2026
Registration and Book A Tour forms on the site, with admission for 2026 stated as open. Eligibility published as minimum 17 years, 10+2 with physics and mathematics, Class II medical fitness under DGCA Rule 39B and a police clearance certificate. No fee or instalment schedule is published.
Registered office at D-412, Palam Extension, Ramphal Chowk, Sector 7, Dwarka, New Delhi 110075. The site names no flying base beyond the Odisha ones the regulator lists.
Fee not published on the school's own site (checked 8 September 2026).
No fee, instalment schedule or hourly rate appears anywhere on the institute's site, which is unusual for a state government organisation.
The fleet page names no aircraft types, so the only aircraft 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.
The institute does not publish it. The course page carries a full hours breakdown and no amount, and a search of every page for a fee, a rupee figure or an amount in words returns nothing. Registration is the only published route to a number.
Yes. The regulator's list records it as state government owned with two bases in Odisha. That usually means a lower price than a private academy, which makes the absence of a published fee more frustrating rather than less.
The institute advertises a multi engine rating and simulator time on twins. The regulator records no multi engine aircraft against the approval. Ask where those hours would be flown and on whose aircraft before you count on them.