Pub Focus 4 visages 2018 - 210 x 297 mm A4_Mise en page 1 30/01/18 19:46 Page1 <<FOCUS ON CIVIL HELICOPTER OPS>> Restrictive Regulations is making Civil Helicopter Operations Unviable Admits Secretary MOCA During the address at at full support from the state governments.” 2nd Helicopter Summit-2020 The third aspect on which the ministry is working is to organized by FICCI on 10 Aug make helicopter operations viable in a way that it becomes 20, the Civil Aviation Secretary affordable for passengers, reduce taxes on air turbine fuel Shri.P S Kharola admitted that (ATF) that is taxed at very high rates, and boost the regulations governing manufacturing and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) civilian helicopter operations in activities for helicopters in India, Kharola said. India are very restrictive and “Somehow helicopters have not seen the growth we they make operation unviable have seen in fixed-wing planes in our country,” he said. and that the government is working to ease these “On the fixed planes side, the traffic has been growing regulations so that the common man is benefitted. He also 15-16 per cent during the last 10 years. added that,“Somehow, what has happened is that the But helicopters somehow did not get to the right place regulations which were meant for fixed-wing planes have so that they could grow,” he said. just been applied with little modifications to the helicopters.” Helicopters are versatile machines and they are He further said, his ministry is focusing on creating a involved in various functions like rescue operations, network of heliports to boost helicopter operations in India. emergency operations or medical evacuation operations, In this regard he said that there are certain places in South Kharola said. India too where movement with helicopters is very desirable Even now, helicopters are being used to fight the locust and it is possible. So, the first thing we are concentrating swarms which have come into the western part of the on is creating a network of heliports. In this, we are getting country, he added. RWSI raises pending issues related to Civil Helicopter Operations with MOCA During the quarter ending 30 Sep 20, RWSI held two Authority of India (a) Rising cost of Airport charges in virtual meetings with Smt.Usha Padhee, Joint Secretary terms of hangar and land rentals, (b) Need for Night Parking MOCA, to discuss issues affecting the Civil Helicopter permission to be waived, (c) Upgradation of ATC Services Operators in the Country. In the first virtual meeting held for Offshore Operations, (d) Creation of Heliport Cell in on 24 Aug 20, Capt Uday Gelli, Advisor Heligo Charters AAI, (e) Permissions for operations to temporary / one time Pvt. Ltd, Gp Capt M K Labroo, Vice President UT Air and use helipads to be made simple and practical, (2) DGCA (a) Secretary General RWSI and Shri R N Johri, CEO Aman Operational issues should be approved at regional offices Aviation Pvt. Ltd. were present. The details of the issues by FOIs posted in respective regions, (b) Need to simplify raised were reported in the Rotor India E Monthly / modify existing rules for helicopters to enable helicopters September 2020. undertake a variety of other roles, (c) Procedure for A second virtual meeting was held with Smt.Usha implementation of CAP 3400 to be simplified, (d)The Padhee, Joint Secretary MOCA, on 30 Sep 20 to discuss privileges of Commercial Pilots Licenses (Helicopters) were issues affecting the Civil Helicopter Operators in the amended to bring them at par with ICAO standards way Country. She invited key representatives of DGCA, AAI back in 2006 and ALTP (H) was not amended and (e) E- and BCAS to participate in the meeting and respond to the GCA. Routine matters at time takes months to get a decision. issues raised by the RWSI representatives. The details of Rolling out of E-GCA for FSD Helicopters would help resolve the issues discussed will be reported in the Rotor India E the issue. Please read our Rotor India E Monthly October Monthly October 2020. However, the issues raised by the 2020 for the decisions taken at the meeting. RWSI representatives at the meeting included, (1) Airport 4 ROTOR INDIA <<NEW ROUTES APPROVED UNDER UDAN 4.0>> 78 New Routes Approved Under UDAN 4.0 78 new routes under the 4th round of Regional to Kanpur (Chakeri), 19.Kanpur (Chakeri) to Aligarh, Connectivity Scheme (RCS)-UdeDesh Ka 20.Aligarh to Kanpur (Chakeri), 21. Kanpur (Chakeri) AamNagrik (UDAN) have been approved following to Chitrakoot, 22.Chitrakoot to Prayagraj/Allahabad, the three successful rounds of bidding by the Ministry 23. Prayagraj/Allahabad to Chitrakoot, 24.Chitrakoot of Civil Aviation. This will further enhance the to Varanasi, 25.Varanasi to Chitrakoot, 26. Chitrakoot connectivity to remote and regional areas of the to Kanpur (Chakeri), 27.Kanpur (Chakeri) to Shravasti, country. The North Eastern Region, Hilly States and 28.Shravasti to Varanasi, 29.Varanasi to Shravasti, Islands have been given priority in the approval 30.Shravasti to Prayagraj/ Allahabad, 31.Prayagraj/ process for the new routes. Allahabad to Shravasti, 32.Shravasti to Kanpur Special boost is being given to connectivity in North (Chakeri), 33.Bareilly to Delhi,34.Delhi to East with routes from Guwahati to Tezu, Rupsi, Tezpur, Bareilly,35.Cochin International Airport(CIAL) to Passighat, Misa and Shillong. People will be able to Agatti, 36.Agatti to Cochin International fly from Hissar to Chandigarh, Dehradun and Airport(CIAL),37.Aizawl to Tezpur, 38.Tezpur to Dharmshala under these UDAN 4 routes. Routes Aizawl,39.Agartala to Dibrugarh ,40.Dibrugarh to from Varanasi to Chitrakoot and Shravasti have also Agartala, 41.Shillong to Passighat, 42.Passighat to been approved.Agatti, Kavaratti and Minicoy islands Guwahati,43.Guwahati to Passighat, 44.Passighat to of Lakshadweep have also been connected by the Shillong, 45.Guwahati to Tezpur, 46.Tezpur to new routes of UDAN 4.0. So far, 766 routes have Guwahati,47.Guwahati to Misa(Heliport), 48. been sanctioned under the UDAN scheme. 29 served, Misa(Heliport) to Geleki,49.Geleki to Jorhat,50. Jorhat 08 unserved (including 02 heliports and 01 water to Geleki, 51.Geleki to Misa (Heliport), 52.Misa aerodrome), and 02 underserved airports have been (Heliport) to Guwahati, 53.Agatti to Minicoy, 54. included in the list for approved routes. Minicoy to Agatti, 55.Agatti to Kavaratti,56.Kavaratti to Agatti,57.Guwahati to Shillong, 58.Shillong to The 4th round of UDAN was launched in Dimapur, 59.Dimapur to Shillong,60.Imphal to December 2019 with a special focus on North-Eastern Silchar,61.Silchar to Imphal, 62.Shillong to Regions, Hilly States, and Islands. The airports that Guwahati,63.Agartala to Shillong,64.Shillong to had already been developed by AAI are given higher Imphal,65.Imphal to Shillong,66.Shillong to priority for the award of VGF(Viability Gap Funding) Agartala,67.Imphal to Shillong,68.Shillong to under the Scheme. Under UDAN 4, the operation of Silchar,69.Silchar to Shillong,70.Shillong to helicopter and seaplanes is also been incorporated. Imphal,71.Shillong to Dibrugarh,72.Dibrugarh to Since its inception, MoCA has operationalized 274 Shillong,73.Delhi to Shimla.74.Shimla to Delhi,75.Diu UDAN routes that have connected 45 airports and 3 to Surat,76.Surat to Diu,77.Diu to Vadodara and heliports. 78.Vadodara to Diu. The new approved RCS routes are as below List of Unserved airports:1.Tezu, Arunachal 1. Guwahati to Tezu, 2. Tezu to Imphal, 3. Imphal Pradesh, 2.Rupsi, Assam, 3.Bilaspur, Chattisgarh, to Tezu, 4.Tezu to Guwahati, 5. Guwahati to Rupsi, 6. 4. Hisar, Haryana, 5. Misa (Heliport), Assam,6.Geleki Rupsi to Kolkata,7. Kolkata to Rupsi, 8. Rupsi to (Heliport), Assam,7. Minicoy, Lakshadweep, Guwahati, 9. Bilaspur to Bhopal, 10.Bhopal to 8.Kavaratti (Water aerodrome), Lakshadweep. Bilaspur,11.Hissar to Dharamshala,12.Dharamshala to :1.Agatti, Hissar,13.Hissar to Chandigarh,14.Chandigarh to List of Under served airports Lakshadweep and 2.Passighat, Arunachal Pradesh. Hissar,15.Hissar to Dehradun,16.Dehradun to Hissar, 17. Kanpur (Chakeri) to Moradabad,18.Moradabad ROTOR INDIA - QE 30 SEPTEMBER - 2020 5 <<CIVIL HELICOPTER OPERATIOS>> Status Report on ONGC Offshore Helicopter Contracts ONGC had invited bids from helicopter operators for contracting 12 helicopters to meet their requirement of offshore crew change flights. ONGC requires 6 Group I helicopters (below 5700 Kgs AUW) and 6 Group II helicopters (above 5700 Kgs AUW). Four Indian companies i. e. PHL, GVHL, HCPL and UHPL bid for these contracts. PHL bid for Group II helicopters was rejected on technical grounds. Now they are in the reckoning for only Group I helicopters. It is learnt that there is a shortage of Group I helicopters such as Airbus A365N3+ and Bell 412 helicopters and lease rentals being high, even the lowest bid is about 50% higher than the old rates. However, in Group II, AW 139s are available at lower lease rentals and the lowest quotation is 8 % lower than the previous contract. Heligo Charters Private Limited is the Bid of M/S United Helicharters Private Limited for Group lowest bidder and has been awarded the contract for 3 AW II helicopter was the higher. As the parent company, Gulf 139 helicopters. M/S Global Vectra Helicorp Limited had Helicopter Corporation is not willing to revise their terms bid for 6 Group I helicopters and 6 Group II helicopters and to match the lowest bidder just for operation of one been awarded contract for 2 AW 139 helicopters as they helicopter, they are out of reckoning.