HELICOPTER MARKET: INDUSTRY: SHOW REPORT: UNEXPLOITED INNOVATIONS IN FARNBOROUGH POTENTIAL LEAP ENGINE 2012 P 30 P 37 P 44 AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2012 `100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) WWW.SPSAIRBUZ.NET ANAIRBUZ EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE ON CIVIL AVIATION FROM INDIA ❚ AIRPORT MODERNISATION ❚ ENVIRONMENT & REGIONAL AVIATION ❚ ENGINES FOR GREENER AVIATION AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SAFER SKIES FROM TAKEOFF TO TOUCHDOWN. For more than 60 years, Raytheon has delivered the most innovative Air Traffi c Management (ATM) solutions. We invented or perfected many of the technologies that form the backbone of today’s global ATM infrastructure, and continue to pioneer training and innovation that provide safe transportation for more passengers than any company in the world. Raytheon solutions will make it possible for initiatives like NextGen to modernise the airspace and enhance customer safety. INNOVATION IN ALL DOMAINS www.raytheon.com | Keyword: SaferSkies Follow us on: © 2012 Raytheon Company. All rights reserved. “Customer Success Is Our Mission” is a registered trademark of Raytheon Company. 12NCS315_ATM_JAR_JULAUG2012.indd 1 6/8/12 11:08 AM TABLE OF CONTENTS TRANSPORTATION: TECHNOLOGY: SHOW REPORT: UNEXPLOITED INNOVATIONS IN FARNBOROUGH POTENTIAL LEAP ENGINE 2012 Cover: P 30 P 37 P 44 As rising incomes in the developing world AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2012 `100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) WWW.SPSAIRBUZ.NET allow millions of people to fly for the first ANAIRBUZ EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE ON CIVIL AVIATION FROM INDIA ❚ AIRPORT MODERNISATION ❚ ENVIRONMENT & REGIONAL AVIATION time, we need to upgrade its air traffic ❚ ENGINES FOR GREENER AVIATION control systems. Across the globe, efforts are on to have unified systems that will manage air traffic with ease. AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION Illustration: SP’s Design RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 SP's Airbuz Cover 04-2012final.indd 1 21/08/12 5:14 PM INFRASTRUCTURE / ATM P12 MANAGING AIRSPACE CONGESTION India has improved its ATM performance significantly in the past few years with respect to on-time performance for airlines. Privately-run airports like Mumbai and Delhi have become early adopters of new techniques and technologies. ENVIRONMENT / REGIONAL AViatiON P26 GROWING CONCERNS The need to burn extra fuel on account of congestion could well be avoided through better infrastructure and enhanced efficiency in ATM, through universal use of modern systems. HELICOPTERS / MARKET P30 UNEXPLOITED POTENTIAL Civil aviation use of helicopters has remained underdeveloped due to regulatory, infrastructure and safety issues. P8 AIRPORT INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNISATION P21 AIRCRAFT LEASE OPTION P24 REGIONAL AVIATION: GET SET GO P32 NEWEST EC135 T2E/P2E P33 FOR A GREENER AVIATION P36 LOWER COSTS AND THE BEST ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE P42 FLIGHT TO SUSTAINABILITY P44 SHOW REPORT: FARNBOROUGH 2012 INDUSTRY / CFM INDUSTRY / Pratt & WHITNEY P37 LOW BURN, LOW EMISSIONS P40 GROWING ORDERS DEPARTMENTS The LEAP engine incorporates new Pratt & Whitney is the only provider P2 A WORD FROM EDITOR breakthrough technologies to make it of engines, parts and services for next- P4 NEWSBRIEFS more fuel-efficient, cost-effective and generation commercial aircraft as well as P48 FINALLY innovative. fifth-generation fighters. SP’S AIRBUZ • Issue 4 • 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, AST MONTH, THE AVIATION industry watchers in India were somewhat Group Captain (Retd) A.K. Sachdev, Arun Lohiya, Group Captain (Retd) Joseph nonplussed at the sudden and unceremonious removal of E.K. Bharat Bhushan Noronha, Captain Ajit Agtey, S.R. Swarup, from the post of the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). Surprisingly, Vasuki Prasad, T.P. Srivastava, Group Captain this move came even as India’s airline industry was in the throes of a major (Retd) R.S. Makker, Air Commodore crisis on account of the ongoing turmoil in the two leading carriers, Air India (Retd) K.B. Menon and Kingfisher Airlines. Europe Alan Peaford, Phil Nasskau Since assuming charge in December 2010, Bharat Bhushan had embarked on an exercise CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR L in public interest to clean up not only the Directorate to rein in corruption; but also to tighten Jayant Baranwal the Indian aviation industry in general and the airline industry in particular. Having under- PLANNING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT taken an undoubtedly herculean and noble task, it is quite probable that in the process, Bharat Executive Vice President: Rohit Goel Bhushan would have stepped on many sensitive toes not only in his own Directorate but also ADMIN & COORDINATION on some of those in the aviation industry as well as even in the Ministry of Civil Aviation. Bharti Sharma The Minister himself is reported to have been “furious at the decision of the Prime Minister’s SENIOR ART DIRECTOR Office to extend his tenure as DGCA”. Given the brutal and unwarranted political interference Anoop Kamath in the functioning of the prime aviation regulatory authority of the country, it is unlikely that GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Vimlesh Kumar Yadav, future incumbents of the post of DGCA will have any courage or inspiration left to perform Sonu Singh Bisht with any missionary zeal or even just to rock the boat a little, what with the proverbial “sword Research Asst/Graphics: Survi Massey of Damocles” hanging over their heads. Mere replacement of the DGCA by a Civil Aviation SALES & MARKETING Authority, may not improve matters so long as there is lack of congruence in the perspectives Director Sales & Marketing: Neetu Dhulia and goals of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the regulatory authority. General Manager Sales: Rajeev Chugh On the international civil aviation scene, the mega event in the recent past was the Farn- SP’s websites borough Air Show that turned out to be a damp squib or just a “drizzle” especially in com- Sr Web Developer: Shailendra Prakash Ashish Web Developer: Ugrashen Vishwakarma parison with the preceding air show at Paris. R. Chandrakanth of SP’s AirBuz has a detailed first-hand account of the event at Farnborough in this issue. One of the major concerns of © SP Guide Publications, 2012 the stakeholders in the global aviation industry today is the adverse impact of aviation on the ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION environment. Although in relative terms, even while the quantum of greenhouse gas emissions Inland: `600 • Foreign: US$180 E-mail: [email protected] by the aviation industry is low, pressure on the industry to cut emissions further is growing by the day. 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