An Indian company with a Gurugram office that sends its cadets to South Africa to fly, and prices the whole twenty one months in dollars with a rupee equivalent printed beside it.
This is one of the routes that makes the IndiGo cadet programme confusing to price, because the company is Indian, the office is in Gurugram, and the flying is in South Africa at a large established academy there. A student comparing it against a flying school in Madhya Pradesh is not comparing like with like on almost any axis: the currency, the country, the visa and the length are all different.
The pricing itself is unusually clear. The company publishes the dollar figure and prints a rupee equivalent alongside it, which is more disclosure than most of this market manages. We reproduce both, and we treat the rupee line as the company's own statement at the rate of the day rather than as a number to be recalculated.
That distinction matters more here than anywhere else in the directory. A dollar-priced programme means your rupee cost changes between the day you apply and the day you pay your last instalment, and nothing on the company's page or ours can tell you which way.
| What | Our source records |
|---|---|
| Registered name | Insight Aviation, which is also how it is commonly known |
| Bases | Gurugram, Haryana and 43 Air School, South Africa |
| Aircraft | None named in our source, so we name none |
| Courses | IndiGo cadet pilot programme, twenty one months |
| Figures checked | 14 June 2026 |
| What you pay for | Amount | What the figure is |
|---|---|---|
| The cadet programme, twenty one months, quoted in dollars | USD 127,500Published | The dollar figure is the price. It is what the company charges and it does not move when the rupee does. |
| The same programme in rupees, as the company's own page states it | about ₹1,06,00,000Published | Printed by the company itself rather than converted by us, and true at the rate of the day it was published rather than today's. |
The cadet programme, twenty one months, quoted in dollars: read from the company's own cadet programme page, checked 14 June 2026. The same programme in rupees, as the company's own page states it: read from the rupee equivalent printed on the same page, checked 14 June 2026.
Selection runs through the airline first, and this company is where you are placed afterwards, so the assessment and the airline's own standards come before any conversation about the fee.
Because the flying is abroad, a study permit and the travel that goes with it are part of the process and are not part of the published price.
The split between the Indian ground phase and the South African flying phase is not published, so how long you spend in each country is unclear from the price alone.
International airfare, the study permit and the currency risk are all outside the published figure, and none of them is small.
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. This school also appears on our IndiGo cadet pilot programme page, where the airline side of the same route is set out.
Because most of the training is bought abroad. The consequence for you is that the rupee number moves with the exchange rate, and the rupee figure on the company's page was true on the day it was published rather than permanently.
No, and that is why it sits in a separate section of our directory. The flying happens in South Africa and this is a cadet route to an airline seat rather than an Indian licence course.
Theirs. It is printed on their own page, which is why it is labelled Published. We do not convert foreign prices ourselves and present the result as a fact.