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Capt. Tomar Awdhesh · Airline & Cadet Interview / ATPL Oral Preparation
Helping aspiring pilots navigate the journey from ambition to the cockpit — one checklist at a time.
His own journey into aviation was far from straightforward. Coming from a humble background, he experienced the financial challenges, uncertainty and setbacks that many aspiring pilots face. Those experiences became an important part of how he approaches aviation today — with practical advice, honest conversations and a strong focus on making informed career decisions.
After flying as an IndiGo First Officer and progressing to the A320 cockpit, Capt. Tomar began mentoring aspiring pilots in 2008. Today, as Director & Co-Founder of Golden Epaulettes Aviation, he works with students preparing for DGCA examinations, airline interviews, cadet pilot programmes and different stages of their aviation careers.
Becoming a pilot is a step-by-step process. Know the next step, and the journey becomes far easier to fly.— Capt. Tomar Awdhesh
Becoming a commercial pilot is a step-by-step process. Each stage has its own requirements, and understanding what comes next can make the journey much easier to navigate. Scroll to fly the profile.
Your journey begins with the required Class 1 and Class 2 medical assessments. It is important to understand your medical eligibility before making a major investment in flight training.
Once you’re ready to move forward, the next step is completing the required DGCA registration and documentation process.
Build a strong foundation in the subjects that form an important part of your pilot training — Air Navigation, Meteorology, Air Regulations, Technical General and RTR(A).
With the required groundwork in place, you move into practical flight training through an appropriate DGCA-approved pathway.
After completing the required training and meeting the applicable requirements, you can work towards obtaining your Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL).
The next stage may involve aircraft-specific training, depending on your chosen career pathway and airline requirements.
Getting ready for an airline involves more than technical knowledge. Candidates may go through written assessments, technical and HR interviews, aptitude and psychometric assessments, CASS/COMPASS and simulator evaluations.
Getting into the cockpit is an important achievement, but the learning doesn’t stop there. A pilot’s career continues to develop through experience, training and responsibility.
Four briefings, one route. Whether you are deciding if aviation is for you or sitting an airline simulator check next month, there is a structured programme for exactly where you are.
Thinking about becoming a pilot but not sure where to start?
The first decision is the most expensive one. Before you commit money or years, you should know whether you are medically eligible, which training route fits your budget, and what the real timeline from day one to an airline cockpit looks like. This briefing gives you that clarity in plain language.
Getting your CPL is an important milestone, but it is only one part of the journey.
Airlines are not just checking what you know. They are checking how you think under pressure, how you communicate with a crew, and whether you will be safe to train. Most candidates fail on the parts no ground school teaches. This programme rehearses every round until the real one feels familiar.
The written papers gate everything that comes after them.
Every month you spend re-attempting a paper is a month of flying, and of salary, lost. These classes are built around how DGCA actually examines: the question patterns, the traps, the topics that keep returning. You study less by guessing and more by knowing exactly what the paper will ask.
A strong technical foundation matters throughout a pilot’s career.
Memorised answers break the moment an examiner changes the question. Pilots who understand the “why” behind every system and number stay calm in interviews, in the simulator and, later, on the line. These sessions rebuild the fundamentals from the ground up so that knowledge becomes judgement.
Capt. Tomar is the Director & Co-Founder of Golden Epaulettes Aviation, a pilot training institute based in Dwarka, New Delhi. The academy prepares students across the stages of a pilot’s career — from the first DGCA ground class to airline-interview and A320 simulator preparation — with the same honest, step-by-step approach he brings to his own mentoring.
Why does the A320 use a side-stick instead of a yoke?
Tell me about a time you disagreed with a senior pilot.
Engine fire at V1. Talk me through your next 60 seconds.
You may know the technical subjects, but an airline assessment also tests how you think, communicate and respond under pressure. This book brings those parts of preparation together in one place, in a structured question-and-answer format — the same questions airline panels in India actually ask, answered the way they expect to hear them.
Capt. Tomar regularly works with aspiring pilots through classroom sessions, career guidance, pilot-training conclaves and aviation-focused discussions. When aviation makes headlines, national newsrooms call him for a pilot’s honest explanation.
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NDTV turned to Capt. Tomar for a pilot’s read of the Baramati crash — the possible causes, the aircraft’s final manoeuvre, and what the evidence could and could not yet say. Calm, factual, and explained for a national audience.
On the same aviation explanation, referencing his Instagram video.
Sources his Instagram video.
One short Instagram video explaining why pilots avoid perfume in the cockpit was picked up by five national outlets in a week. That is what clear, honest aviation explanation does.
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