bareily has been hit by poaching since november last year four flying instructors have left the academy to join commercial airlinessaid a top igrua officialthe 72 students training there could together clock only 230 hours of flying in a month one student can fly a maximum of 30 hours a week but then they drew up a contingency plan and managed to turn the situation around by hiring a retired army pilot and one flying instructor currently igrua has four fullfledged flying instructors and two visiting faculty members two instructors who had left managed to get permission from their airline to teach at igrua during their free timesaid the official in may this year igrua clocked a record time of 1041 flying hoursbut problems continue for the smaller flying schools getting flying instructors from abroad not only needs government permission but it is not viable as wellsaid sources flying instructors abroad are paid much better than their indian counterparts because it is a more popular hobby there in india flying as a hobby was popular only till the 60s a chief flying instructor gets about rs 60000 while a flying instructor gets around rs 25000 compare that to the rs 1 lakhplus salary that most commercial airlines givesaid an aviation source