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Q400_SpiceJet_SPAirbuz-October issue.indd 1 9/21/12 1:45 PM TABLE OF CONTENTS EMBRAER E-JETS: HELICOPTERS CONFERENCE THE FIRST FOR LAW REPORT: FDI IN PICK ENFORCEMENT AVIATION Cover: P 17 P 28 P 33 OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2012 `100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) WWW.SPSAIRBUZ.NET Apart from passenger comfort in terms ANAIRBUZ EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE ON CIVIL AVIATION FROM INDIA of bigger and comfortable seats, the DREAMLINER most distinguished feature of the COMES TO INDIA Boeing Dreamliner 787 is the cabin pressure control, which allows cabin ATR: MODERN REGIONAL TURBOPROPS ❚ pressure to be set at lower levels POOR AIR TRANSPORTATION ❚ INFRASTRUCTURE IN ARUNACHAL AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION REGIONAL AVIATION: ❚ RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 A STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE Photograph: SP Guide Pubns SP's Airbuz Cover 05-2012.indd 1 26/10/12 3:13 PM AIR TRANSPORT / DREAMLINER P14 HIGH POTENTIAL Upbeat as always about the Indian market, Dinesh Keskar, President of Boeing India, said that India’s commercial aviation fleet is likely to grow by 4.5 times in size in the next 20 years. INFRASTRUCTURE / ATM P12 THE GPS WAY GPS tracking systems can give continuous position reports through a satellite and/or cellular network. In India, the first satellite of the GPS-aided GAGAN system is already in orbit. AIR TRANSPORT / E-JETS P17 THE FIRST PICK Embraer’s range of E-Jets series regional airliners address the needs of customers spread across six continents. P8 TECKNOW P10 VOLATILE GLAMOUR P25 A PIPEDREAM OR REALITY? P27 ATR: MODERN REGIONAL TURBOPROP P30 EUROCOPTER: AERIAL FILMING IN INDIA P31 SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS DEPARTMENTS P2 A WORD FROM EDITOR P4 NEWS BRIEFS HELICOPTERS / LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE REPORT / ASSOCHAM P36 FINALLY P28 MAINTAINING LAW AND ORDER P33 FDI WELCOMED Today, the US has over 3,000 helicopters During the Fifth International Conference on operated by more than 400 law Civil Aviation, problems plaguing the Indian civil enforcement agencies covering 46 states. aviation industry were discussed threadbare and actions required were enunciated. SP’S AIRBUZ • Issue 5 • 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, VER THE LAST SEVEN months, the airline industry, the travelling public Group Captain (Retd) A.K. Sachdev, Arun Lohiya, Group Captain (Retd) Joseph and the hapless employees have been watching with deep anxiety and some Noronha, Captain Ajit Agtey, S.R. Swarup, distress what appears to be a slow and painful demise of Kingfisher Airlines, Vasuki Prasad, T.P. Srivastava, Group Captain the most glamorous and high-profile airline in the private sector in India that (Retd) R.S. Makker, Air Commodore made a valiant attempt to set pioneering standards in the industry. The air- (Retd) K.B. Menon line is seemingly afflicted with some mysterious terminal illness that even Europe Alan Peaford, Phil Nasskau the well-informed and astute industry analysts are unable to accurately diag- CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR nose or explain convincingly. The most commonly offered explanation “mismanagement” is Jayant Baranwal O much too simplistic to be plausible. The episode would undoubtedly be earth shattering for PLANNING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT the Indian airline industry and the trauma can only be compared with that experienced by the Executive Vice President: Rohit Goel shipping industry on account of the sinking of the Titanic a hundred years ago. ADMIN & COORDINATION The stakeholders of the civil aviation industry gathered in Delhi on September 21 for Bharti Sharma an International Conference on Civil Aviation organised by ASSOCHAM during which the SENIOR ART DIRECTOR problems impinging on the growth and well-being of the industry were discussed threadbare Anoop Kamath and catalogued. A report on the conference has been included as a part of this issue. Ironi- GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Vimlesh Kumar Yadav, cally, with the exception of the Minister of Civil Aviation Ajit Singh, who was the chief guest Sonu Singh Bisht at the conference, representatives of the government i.e. the bureaucracy from the Ministry Research Asst/Graphics: Survi Massey of Civil Aviation, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the Airports Authority of India SALES & MARKETING who are responsible for providing the solutions, were conspicuous by their absence. Even Director Sales & Marketing: Neetu Dhulia the airlines were inadequately represented. Approval by the government of the proposal for General Manager Sales: Rajeev Chugh foreign direct investment by airlines abroad into Indian carriers did serve to raise the spirits SP’s websites of the industry as if it was a dream come true; but it will take some time for the real impact Sr Web Developer: Shailendra Prakash Ashish Web Developer: Ugrashen Vishwakarma to be visible. Besides, there are some imponderables that could come in the way. There are a number of issues of interest analysed in this edition. A.K. Sachdev has © SP Guide Publications, 2012 focused on how despite the overall growth in the aviation industry in India, regional ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION aviation continues to lag behind and its potential remains largely unexploited. Glob- Inland: `600 • Foreign: US$180 E-mail: [email protected] ally Embraer is making waves with their regional jets, the Embraer 170/190 family that appears to be becoming the first choice for regional carriers. P.P. Rajkumar, an experi- LETTER TO EDITOR [email protected] enced helicopter pilot of the Indian Air Force, describes the pathetic state of aviation FOR ADVERTISING DETAILS CONTACT infrastructure in the North-east region based on his study of the area during an inves- [email protected] tigation conducted by him into a major accident at Tawang involving a civil helicopter. [email protected] Writing from Bangalore, Vasuki Prasad examines the distortion in the aviation industry [email protected] in respect of employment prospects for pilots that has arisen due to supply forging way SP GUIDE PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD ahead of demand caused essentially by a misperception of the sustainability of the boom A-133 Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Colony), New Delhi 110 003, India. in civil aviation that began eight years ago. 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