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We Gather Intelligence. Every Month. From India. AviationISSUE 3 • 2009 3 NewsWithViews Dangerous Space Debris On Record 20 NewsDigest 4 MILITARY LOCKHEED MARTIN F-16IN 24 LastWord 11 CIVIL Train Well to Rein Error EMBRAER PHENOM 100 Series Cover Photo: ���� ������������������������ 6 COMMERCIAL AVIATION While it is not all doom and ������������������������������������������������������������������ �������������� ������������������� ���������������������������������������� ������������������������� gloom in the present VLJ ������������������������������������� ������������������������������ ��������������������������������� ������������������������ THE FIRST FALTERING ATTEMPTS ������ ������� LIGHT UP THE SKY: While Cessna and market, there are key issues � � � � Business Aviation Embraer dominate the market, it is a that need to be addressed by positive sign for VLJs that the Phenom operators, owners and the 8 VLJS and Mustang production lines are not regulatory authorities. 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Precisely why this edition is truly unputdownable. ery Light Jets (VLJs) pose a dream and a di- Euphoria fuelled by the advent of the VLJ necessarily lemma. The dream of taking to the skies with- dictates a scrutiny of the remarkable evolution charted by out the hassles and time frame normally asso- the commercial aviation industry. Merely a century ago, ciated when travelling on commercial airlines; on May 14, 1908, in the US, the first passenger—Charlie and the dilemma of ensuring stringent safety Furnas—had entrusted his life to Wilbur Wright, who took measures while enforcing the distinct criteria him aloft and brought him safely back to Earth. In 1913, for pilot training. Reporting on the Royal Aeronautical Soci- Igor Sikorsky developed the world’s first large, four-engine Vety’s Corporate, Air Taxi & Personal Jets conference held in plane. Le Grand could carry seven passengers and stay London on March 18 and 19, SP’s correspondent for Europe aloft for nearly two hours. It had a plush cabin (with a lava- Phil Nasskau affirms that a recurring theme at the conven- tory, private suite and bed) and cabin heating and lighting. tion was that of safety and pilot training. On August 25, 1919, the British airline, Aircraft Transport Statistical accident data corroborated that aircraft oper- and Travel, inaugurated a regular, sustained, civil, daily ated by a single pilot have a 50 per cent higher accident (Monday to Saturday) passenger service between London rate over a two-crew aircraft. Addressing the gathering, and Paris. It was probably the first such scheduled service Captain John Cox of the Flight Operations Group pointed in the world. A host of such engrossing nuggets of informa- out that this trend applies even when the single pilot has tion feature in the first installment of a series of articles more experience than a typical First Officer of a two-crew in SP’s Aviation tracing the incredible journey of humans aircraft. Cynics, meanwhile, have also raised the spectre of taking to the sky like fish to water. the skies getting crowded with these “upstarts” piloted by Still on this page? inadequately trained individuals. How does one define a VLJ? In layman’s terms, a VLJ’s design allows for single-pilot operation for the aircraft weighing less than 10,000 lbs maximum gross takeoff weight and with the capability to carry four to six passen- gers. That’s the bare statistics. Advantages that stick, mak- ing the VLJ hottest of corporate possessions (an estimated 5,000 are expected to take to the skies by 2017), is—yes, you guessed right—price and time. No queues. No intermi- nably delayed flights. No last minute cancellation of busi- ness meetings. No eavesdropping strangers. All of that at a cost much less than a business jet. All of a sudden, retrain- ing the organisation’s aviation department appears not so big a deal after all. Driving home the advantages, José Edu- ardo Costas, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Embraer Executive Jets, Asia Pacific, writes on the state-of-the-art features of the Phenom 100, designed with the primary ob- jective to offer more value for money to corporate bigwigs. For the military, Orville Prins, Vice President, Business De- velopment, Lockheed Martin, India outlines the air-to-air combat capabilities that make the F-16IN Super Viper the Jayant Baranwal ultimate 4th Generation Fighter. Publisher & Editor-in-Chief 2 SP’S AVIATION Issue 3 • 2009 www.spsaviation.net DANGEROUS SPACE DEBRIS Views Orbiting junk compelled NASA to order astronauts aboard the connected International Space Station (ISS) and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of a piece of debris on Sunday, March 22. Discovery’s pilots fired the ship’s thrusters to reorient the two spacecraft, thereby making way for a small discarded piece from a 10-year-old Chinese satellite rocket motor that was to have hurtled pass uncomfortably close during a planned spacewalk. sWith “Space debris is becoming an ever increasing challenge,” Flight Director Kwatsi Alibaruho said the same evening. When it comes to dodging junk, “it’s a big deal. It’s very tiring. Sometimes it’s exhausting”. New VIEWS iring the Discovery’s thrusters, astronauts aboard the 10 drove home the grave danger posed by space debris when space shuttle created a slow, natural drag of about a the deactivated Kosmos-2251 and an operational Iridium 33 foot per second, placing the shuttle and space station collided in space over northern Siberia. The relative speed