SP's AirBuz - ISSUE No 01-09

Issue Features

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  Environment : A Lifelong Commitment
  By Joseph Noronha, Goa

  To a large extent, making aviation greener depends on reducing aircraft greenhouse gas emissions. However, it would be wrong to ignore the environmental impact of aviation as a whole.

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  Safety : Lost in Translation
  By Dr Mani Sishta, Hyderabad

  The 1977 Tenerife disaster, downing of the Korean airliner near Sakhalin and the mid-air collision between Saudi Arabian Airlines’ Boeing 747 and Kazak Airlines’ Ilyushin IL-76 near Delhi are clear instances of how poor English communication skills can lead to disasters

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  Audits : Plugging the Loopholes
  By Our Special Correspondent

  Airlines use operation safety audit as a significant risk management tool in addition to being an exercise in identifying weak areas

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  Airships : A Second Coming
  By Joseph Noronha, Goa

  Two major factors are driving a renewed interest in airships: the cost of oil and environmental concerns

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  Heliports : Make Room for Choppers
  By J.T. Nayaham, Bangalore

  The concept of heliports is yet to catch on in India. Experience of developed countries corroborate that such facilities are extremely beneficial.

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  Career : The sky at her feet
  By Joseph Noronha, Goa

  Jessica Cox scripts an incredible aviation feat by being the first person without arms to have earned a certificate to fly light sport aircraft

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  Chimes Aviation Academy

  Offering comprehensive training for civil pilots in India, CAA conducts flying training courses approved by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation

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  Delhi’s airport gets a makeover

  The boom in civil aviation in India that began in 2004 soon revealed that the evolution of aviation infrastructure in the country was totally out of sync with rapidly growing demand.

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  Disaster Analysis : KAL Flight 007
  By Joseph Noronha, Goa

  The ill-fated commercial jetliner was in 1983 shot down by a military fighter aircraft after it inexplicably entered Soviet airspace over the Kamchatka peninsula—home of top-secret Soviet military installations

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  HAL Chief Test Pilot : A simulator will cut RWA’s losses

  Wing Commander C.D. Upadhya, Chief Test Pilot (CTP) of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Bangalore, was also Chief Instructor of the public sector undertaking’s Rotary Wing Academy (RWA) established in the late 1990s under the aegis of Dr Krishnadas Nair.