Wing Commander Ranbir Singh (Retd), an
alumnus from the National Defence Academy,
Pune, was commissioned into the Fighter
Stream of the IAF in December 1981. He
has flown about a thousand hours on the MiG
21 and about 300 hours on the MiG 29
aircraft. A graduate of the Defence Services
Staff College, Wellington, Ranbir is a
Qualified Flying Instructor, who has been the
Chief Flying Instructor too, and has served as
an Inspector with the prestigious Directorate of
Air Staff Inspection. Due to his subsequent
medical category, which ruled out flying ejection
seat aircraft, he took premature retirement in
2005 and joined Civil Aviation. Having
f
lown about 13500 hours on the Boeing 737,
he is an Instructor Trainer and DGCA
appointed Designated Examiner. He has
recently retired from Civil Aviation.
