Nagpur Flying club

Training staffL-R: Capt Tharegaonkar(in white shirt) , Capt Ramamurthy(Standing centre) , Capt kanga (With shades), Flt Cdt VP Roy (without cap)

Details: Circa 1965, Nagpur flying club

These are the pictures of dad's training at Nagpur flying club. I was wondering why airforce cadets were undergoing training in civilian facilities and by civilians. It seems that during the emergency of, Airforce had given five flying clubs the contract to give basic flying taining to its cadets. This included a total of 25 hours of flying. Five of these hours had to be solo.

L-R : Dad, Capt Kanga, V.P.Roy

The imposing trainer was Capt Kanga. I wonder how he could have fit in most of the cockpits of that time. If you notice in the second picture, dad actually had to stand on top of the planes wheel and the other cadet on the chock to even reach his shoulders!