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FIRST: TECHNOLOGY: EBACE 2012: HYPERmach’S LEAP OF PURE SHOW REPORT SONICSTAR BIZJET POWER FROM GENEVA P 8 P 14 P 36 JUNE-JULY 2012 `100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) WWW.SPSAIRBUZ.NET ANAIRBUZ EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE ON CIVIL AVIATION FROM INDIA ❚ CIVIL AVIATION TRAINING IN INDIA ❚ REGIONAL AVIATION GROWTH STORY ❚ INDIA AVIATION 2012 ❚ INTERVIEW: V.P. AGRAWAL, AAI JACKIE CHAN UPBEAT WITH AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION LEGACY 650 RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 CFM. ALWAYS EXCEEDING OUR PROMISES. CFM* customers are used to pleasant surprises. Our history proves we not only keep our word, we deliver way beyond it. Building our customers’ trust. Building our customers’ profits. With better than expected technology upgrades, engine reliability, maintenance cost reduction, time on wing performance and strong asset values. The list is nearly as long as the life of one of our engines. Visit www.cfm56.com and see why, when we make promises, they don’t melt away. *CFM, CFM56 and the CFM logo are all trademarks of CFM International, a 50/50 joint company of Snecma (Safran Group) and GE. SP_CivilAviation_Promises_267x210.indd 1 16/05/2012 10:51 TABLE OF CONTENTS FIRST: TECHNOLOGY: EBACE 2012: hypeRmach’S LEAP OF PURE SHOW REPORT SONICSTAR BIZJET POWER FROM GENEVA Cover: P 8 P 14 P 36 Embraer roped in Hong Kong-born JUNE-JULY 2012 `100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) WWW.SPSAIRBUZ.NET ANAIRBUZ EXCLUSIVE M AGA ZINE ON C IVIL AVIA TION FROM I NDIA Hollywood star Jackie Chan as its brand ❚ CIVIL AVIATION TRAINING IN INDIA ❚ REGIONAL AVIATION GROWTH STORY ❚ INDIA AVIATION 2012 ambassador in 2011 and the acrobatic ❚ INTERVIEW: V.P. AGRAWAL, AAI actor has been at several air shows endorsing for Embraer’s Legacy 650 jet, besides others. JACKIE CHAN UPBEAT WITH AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION LEGACY 650 RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 Photograph: Embraer SP's Airbuz Cover 03-2012.indd 1 21/06/12 3:15 PM BUSINESS AVIATION / BRANDING P30 JACKIE ON THE WINGS OF LEGACY 650 Jackie Chan’s Legacy 650 has a 6,250-km range, enough to fly non-stop from Beijing to Dubai or Hong Kong to Adelaide, Australia, according to the manufacturer. It can carry as many as 14 passengers in its three-zone cabin on shorter trips. TRAINING / INFRASTRUCTURE P10 ALARMING REALITY In the past decade, not a single foreign trainee has joined any flying school in India but in the same period, thousands of Indian pilots have graduated from flying schools abroad. AIRCRAFT / TECHNOLOGY P14 lEAP OF PURE POWER The looming threat of CFM International LEAP-ing ahead seems to have persuaded the two partners, Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney, to bury their differences and cooperate more closely. P16 GENERAL AVIATION: GOING UNNOTICED P18 INTERVIEW: V.P. AGRAWAL, CHAIRMAN, AAI P20 SHOW REPORT: INDIA AVIATION 2012 P24 REGIONAL AVIATION: THE GROWTH STORY P29 INFRASTRUCTURE: GROWING COLLABORATIONS P36 SHOW REPORT: EBACE 2012 DEPARTMENTS TRAINING / AIRCRAFT AIR TRANSPORT / REGIONAL aviation P2 A WORD FROM EDITOR P26 RUGGED AND LEGENDARY P34 A FLIGHT TOO FAR P4 NEWSBRIEFS From jagged trainers to high-performance Globally, the Indian market is already the ninth P8 FIRST turboprops, Florida-based Piper Aircraft, largest and growing at a pace that should P9 TECKNOW Inc. is giving wings to all—newbie pilots, catapult it to third position by 2020. But is any P40 FINALLY adventure-seekers and business travellers carrier geared up for regional operations? SP’S AIRBUZ • Issue 3 • 2012 • 1 A WORD FROM EDITOR PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jayant Baranwal EDITOR Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey ASSISTANT GROUP EDITOR R. Chandrakanth (Bengaluru) SENIOR COPY-EDITOR & CORRESPONDENT Sucheta Das Mohapatra CONTRIBUTORS Dr Mani Sishta, B.N. Gokhale, HE AIRLINE INDUSTRY IN India has been much in the news in the Group Captain (Retd) A.K. Sachdev, Arun Lohiya, Group Captain (Retd) Joseph recent past for all the wrong reasons. Air India is in the throes of a crisis Noronha, Captain Ajit Agtey, S.R. Swarup, that is threatening its very survival. Its pilots operating international flights Vasuki Prasad, T.P. Srivastava, Group Captain have been on strike since the first week of May this year with no end to (Retd) R.S. Makker, Air Commodore the impasse in sight. The much touted restructuring programme continues (Retd) K.B. Menon to remain a distant dream. The most glamorous of all the private carriers, Europe Alan Peaford, Phil Nasskau Kingfisher Airlines, a brand of world renown, is teetering on the verge of CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR collapse desperately hoping for a lifeline by way of foreign direct investment (FDI). This Jayant Baranwal T proposal for FDI has proved elusive so far not only on account of dithering on the part PLANNING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT of the government but also due to lack of consensus amongst the private carriers on the Executive Vice President: Rohit Goel need of funding by foreign airlines as also to the somewhat indifferent response by foreign ADMIN & COORDINATION carriers. With the exception of IndiGo, all other carriers appear to be in financial difficulty Bharti Sharma despite healthy growth in passenger traffic. As per Naresh Goyal, Chairman of Jet Airways, SENIOR ART DIRECTOR the government’s taxation policies in the aviation sector are killing the industry. Accord- Anoop Kamath ing to him, no country in the world except India imposes service tax on airlines and that GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Vimlesh Kumar Yadav, domestic air fares in India are 300 per cent higher than in China and 200 per cent higher Sonu Singh Bisht than in other countries. Research Asst/Graphics: Survi Massey This issue delves into other segments of the civil aviation industry that are also SALES & MARKETING plagued with problems that impinge on their growth prospects. T.P. Srivastava, who has Director Sales & Marketing: Neetu Dhulia established from scratch a Flying Training School in Maharashtra, provides an insider’s General Manager Sales: Rajeev Chugh view of the state of basic flying training in India that is afflicted by a variety of ills includ- SP’s websiTES ing flawed policy framework as also the inadequacies of the regulatory regimes. Sr Web Developer: Shailendra Prakash Ashish Web Developer: Ugrashen Vishwakarma On account of lack of dedicated infrastructure, business and general aviation in India are usually relegated to lower priority vis-à-vis the airline industry especially at the © SP Guide Publications, 2012 metro airports. Growth in these segments of the industry are consequently inclined to be ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION stunted. Somewhat similar is the plight of regional aviation in the country. The larger air- Inland: `600 • Foreign: US$180 E-mail: [email protected] ports being saturated, there is a crying need to enhance connectivity to Tier-I and Tier-II cities that hold considerable potential for the growth of regional aviation. Unfortunately, LETTER TO EDITOR [email protected] despite the enormous potential, the pace of growth of regional aviation is impeded by the FOR ADVERTISING DETAILS CONTACT tardy pace at which airport infrastructure is being expanded to cover the large number of [email protected] smaller cities where demand for air travel is expected to be substantial. [email protected] In an interview with SP’s AirBuz, V.P. Agrawal, Chairman, Airport Authority of India [email protected] (AAI) lays out the plans and progress of various infrastructure projects undertaken by SP GUIDE PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD AAI. But there are no separate infrastructure development plans for business or general A-133 Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Colony), New Delhi 110 003, India. aviation, as they operate out of the same airports. However, he says, AAI is always there Tel: +91 (11) 24644693, 24644763, 24620130 to provide the services required. Writing from Goa, Joseph Noronha evaluates the chal- Fax: +91 (11) 24647093 lenges before manufacturers of aero engines to develop technologies to produce pro- Email: [email protected] pulsion systems that have lower levels of emission and are quieter. BENGALURU, INDIA All these apart from the regular features in this issue. Welcome aboard and 534, Jal Vayu Vihar, Kammanhalli Main Road happy reading! Bengaluru 560043, India. Tel: +91 (80) 23682534 www.spguidepublications.com Owned, published and printed by Jayant Baranwal, printed at Kala Jyothi Process Pvt Ltd and Published at A-133, Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Colony), New Delhi 110 003, India. B.K. 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