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SP’s AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION ED BUYER ONLY) ED BUYER AS -B A NDI I 100.00 ( ` Aviation Sharp Content for Sharp Audience www.sps-aviation.com vol 20 ISSUE 4 • AprIl • 2017 MILITARY • What Next for the IAF Embraer Helicopter Fleet? Commercial: • Apache – A Versatile From Strength Machine to Strength REGIONAL AVIATION • PM Modi Launches UDAN • 70 Airports for UDAN BUSINESS AVIATION • Where is He (Pilot)? • Pilot Scarcity is Acute LAST S HOW REPORT WORD • ABACE 2017 Need to End VIP Culture & much more... Page 22 EXCLUSIVE “we will haVE A LOT OF FOCUS ON ASIA-PAcific” John Slattery, President & CEO RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24199 Embraer Commercial “In a country like India with limited support from the industry and market, initiating 50 years ago (in 1964) publishing magazines relating to Army, Navy and Aviation sectors without any interruption is a commendable job on the part of SP Guide“ Publications. By this, SP Guide Publications has established the fact that continuing quality work in any field would result in success.” Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India (*message received in 2014) SP's Home Ad with Modi 2016 A4.indd 1 01/02/17 5:33 PM table of contents vol 20 ISSUE 4 • AprIl • 2017 SP’s AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION 100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) BUYER 100.00 (INDIA-BASED ` Aviation Sharp Content for Sharp Audience www.sps-aviation.com VOL 20 ISSUE 4 • APRIL • 2017 MILITARY • What Next for the IAF Embraer Helicopter Fleet? Commercial: • Apache – A Versatile From Strength Machine to Strength REGIONAL AVIATION • PM Modi Launches UDAN • 70 Airports for UDAN BUSINESS AVIATION • Where is He (Pilot)? • Pilot Scarcity is Acute LAST SHOW REPORT WORD • ABACE 2017 Need to End VIP Culture & much more... Page 22 EXCLUSIVE “WE WILL HAVE A LOT OF FOCUS ON ASIA-PACIFIC” John Slattery, President & CEO RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24199 Embraer Commercial SP's Aviation Cover 4-2017.indd 1 29/04/17 9:18 PM COVER IMAGE: Under the dynamic leadership of John Slattery, Embraer Commercial is aiming for new heights. SINCE IT ACQUIRED ITS FIRST E-JET BACK IN 2008, AZUL HAS CAPTURED ONE-THIRD OF BRAZIL’S DOMESTIC MARKET. TODAY, IT FLIES MORE THAN 70 E-JETS AND IS THE CARRIER WITH THE LARGEST Cover Photograph by: FLEET OF E195s IN THE WORLD. Embraer REGIONAL AVIATION INDUSTRY PAGE 22 6 Manufacturing 29 RCS LEAD STORY Energise Aerospace Industry 70 Airports for UDAN 9 Air Safety SHOW REPORT WE WILL HAVE A LOT OF Single vs Twin 33 ABACE 2017 FOCUS ON ASIA-PACIFIC Beyond Expectations SP’s Aviation Editor-in-Chief Jayant MILITARY Baranwal speaks to John Slattery, Helicopters President & CEO of Embraer Commercial, 11 What Next for IAF REGULAR on the growth plans of Embraer. 14 Apache — A Versatile Machine DEPARTMENTS 3 A Word from Editor-in-Chief CIVIL News with Views 17 Embraer Commercial 4 Awards 2017 F-16 Fighting Falcons for India Strength to Strength SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION TO 36 Hall of Fame BUSINESS AVIATION BUSINESS AVIATION Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916-82) Human Resource News Digest 37 NEXT ISSUE 26 Where is He? Last Word 40 EBACE Special 28 Pilot Scarcity is Acute! 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APPLIED FOR WWW.SPGUIDEPUBLICATIONS.COM 2 ISSUE 4 • 2017 www.sps-aviation.com A word from editor-in-chief prime minister narendra modi’s LAUNCH OF UDAN IS INDICATIVE OF THE GREATER FOCUS COMING FROM INDIAN GOVERNMENT IN SUPPORT OF INDIA’s COMMERCIAL AVIATION INDUSTRY IT WAS A POLITICAL decision, followed up by government The aviation industry, general and business aviation in backing that saw the birth of Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáu- particular, is going through a crisis of pilot shortage, lead- tica or known the world over as Embraer in 1969. Starting with ing to getting in expat pilots. Colonel Sanjay Julka, CEO, India production of the Embraer EMB 110 Banderante, the Brazilian FlySafe Aviation, creates an interesting interview scenario for aerospace behemoth has come a long way. With offices and fac- Pilot in Command and find that they are hopping from one tories around the world and over 5,000 different aircraft sold airline to another, leaving the airline operator to pick the chaff on every continent, Embraer is the market leader in commer- from overseas. cial jets with up to 130 seats. It is also the fifth largest manufac- Moving to military aviation, the focus is on helicopters and turer of executive jets in the world and the largest defence and Group Captain Sachdev looks into the ongoing acquisitions, the security solutions company in Brazil. Indian Air Force. In another article Air Marshal Pandey talks In this issue, we have traced the historic origins of Embraer about the capabilities of the Apache attack helicopters which which is going from strength to strength. In an exclusive inter- the Defence Acquistion Council has recently cleared. Iview, the President and CEO of Embraer Commercial Aviation, In this issue, we have covered how ABACE continues to grow John Slattery reveals how these are exciting times for Embraer despite the plateau that the business aviation segment seems to with the development the E-Jets E2 jets programme which have hit as of now in Asia. The show apparently exceeded the is progressing well, to be delivered next year. The company’s expectations of the NBAA and there were clear indications of strategy has been to keep up the momentum and maintain the business opportunities in the future in this segment of the leadership position in the 70-130 plus seat segment. To date, civil aviation industry. A detailed report by Chandrakanth fig- Embraer has delivered over 1,300 current generation E-Jets ures in this issue of SP’s Aviation. to 70 airlines in 50 countries and that is phenomenal growth. All this and more apart from the regular features in this India is one country which can benefit from their regional jets, issue of SP’s Aviation. Welcome aboard and wish you happy now that the government has initiated the Regional Connectiv- landings! ity Scheme (RCS). Making a case for the private industry to take up aero- space manufacturing, Group Captain A.K. Sachdev (Retd) writes that with full-blooded private sector participation, ‘Make in India’ may really take off in the aerospace sector. While on aerospace manufacturing, the global airline indus- try is pitching for two engine aircraft as elucidated by Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd) as fuel efficiency is the highest priority for airline operators. On the domestic scene, the Indian airline industry is forg- ing ahead with the RCS. On completion of the initial bid- ding process 128 regional routes have been awarded to five regional carriers. The government is working on a major push for infrastructure development for RCS by operationalising as many as 70 airports including several that are currently unserved or underserved. Prime Minister Narendra Modi per- sonally flagged off the first regional flight under this scheme JAYANT BARANWAL from Shimla on April 27, 2017. R. Chandrakanth provides an PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF update on RCS in this issue. www.sps-aviation.com ISSUE 4 • 2017 3 News with views NEWS: F-16 FIGHTING FALCONS FOR INDIA Two Senators have urged the Don- istration must make the fighter jet ald Trump administration to push for acquisition a priority during bilat- the sale of F-16 fighter jets to India eral discussions with India. Making to build capability to counter China’s a strong case for the sale of F-16s growing military power in the Pacific. to India, the two Senators said this Senators Mark Warner from Virginia would represent a historic win for and John Cornyn from Texas in a joint America and deepen US-India strate- letter to the US Defense Secretary gic partnership.