New Delhi, July 10 -- The directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) will rank the Flying Training Organisations (FTOs) from October 1 based on safety, performance, compliance, student support, and operations, in a bid to enhance aviation training standards. A statement issued by the DGCA on Tuesday said that the ranking will provide a comparative framework to assess the performance and quality of FTOs based on uniform and objective criteria, which promotes standardisation in training quality across institutions. "Ranking will be published bi-annually, preferably on October 1 and April 1 of every year. Categorisation of FTO ranking will be based on the following overall score achieved by individual FTOs," the statement said. FTOs with 85% and above will be rated as A++, 70% to less than 85% as A+, less than 70% to 50% as A, and those scoring below 50% will be rated as B. Category 'B' FTOs will receive a notice from the DGCA for self-analysis towards improvement of their performance. The DGCA statement gave details on how the score will be broken up....