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The #PlaneCarnival is at a striking distance. He we present one of the finest helicopter Test Pilots of India -- Wg Cdr Unni Pillai (Retd), the Chef Test Pilot of HAL, through this edition of #TarmakTalking.
A great Test Pilot can also be an excellent carpenter. This is also the story of a bad cook & an inspiring Dad! An Evening with Unni Pillai -- premiering now on your channel will inspire you and generations to come.
About Unni Pillai
Wg Cdr Unni Krishna Pillai (Retd.) is a graduate from the National Defence Academy and was commissioned into the Indian Air Force in 1984. He was trained on helicopters, and has flown close to 8000 hours on 26 different types of aircraft till date. A large share of his operational flying was on MI-8 / Mi-17 helicopters, and has flown in all operational areas of the country, partaking in Operational missions from the Siachen glacier to Op Pawan and Rann of Kutch to Arunachal Pradesh.
He is a qualified flying instructor with more than 2000 hours of instructional flying and is a DGCA Approved Flight examiner. He has also undergone the Experimental Test Pilots course held at Air Force Test Pilots School at ASTE in 1993-94. After graduating from the test pilot school, he has been actively involved in the flight testing of Advance Light Helicopter (ALH) and has more than 4000 Hrs of flight testing experience on various variants of Dhruv (ALH), LCH & LUH. He has also been involved in the flight testing of various systems for both the Air Force and for HAL.
He was on deputation to HAL from 1999 & joined HAL after release from service in Feb 03. He is one of the most experienced Test pilots in India with more than 27 years of continuous experience in test flying of prototypes. He displayed Dhruv’s maneuverability in a number of international Air shows in Paris, Farnborough, Ankara, Chile, Malaysia, Bangalore and trained pilots of Ecuador, Nepal, Mauritius, Maldives, Israel, Chile and Afghanistan on Dhruv. He was appointed the Chief Test Pilot (Rotary Wing) of HAL in Feb 09, the post which he continues to hold. He did the first flight of indigenously designed Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) and Light Utility Helicopter (LUH).
He is also the Chief instructor of the Rotary Wing Academy of HAL, which is the sole civil helicopter training academy in India and the President of the Southern chapter of Rotary wing society of India.
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