SP's AirBuz - ISSUE No 05-09

Issue Features

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  MRO - Forging Ahead
  By Joseph Noronha, Goa

  India’s commercial aviation fleet of over 400 aircraft can generate substantial business for any MRO operator. Add another 600 general aviation aircraft, and a potentially huge MRO market is revealed.

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  Work Environment - Storm In The Cockpit
  By Raju Srinivasan, Coimbatore

  Accumulated losses suffered by airlines in September was an estimated Rs 450 crore even as over two lakh passengers with confirmed bookings were inconvenienced due to arbitrary cancellation of flights

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  TAAL

  Taneja Aerospace and Aviation Limited is the only company in the private sector in India that has the licence to manufacture aircraft

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  Training - HATSOFF offers a Modern Simulator environment
  By SP's Team

  C.D. Upadhyay, CEO of Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF), in a conversation with SP’s AirBuz Correspondent Mahesh Acharya.

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  UAV's - In Civil Service
  By Mahesh Acharya, Bangalore

  Although military UAVs perform reconnaissance, surveillance and attack missions for military purposes, these are also being utilised in a small but growing number of civil applications, such as fire-fighting and research

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  Helicopter – Refocus & Realign
  By B.N. Gokhale, Pune

  While the versatility and flexibility of a helicopter are attributes that need to be exploited, its unplanned use can well become a bane for safe operations

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  A320 Unravelled

  The new generation Airbus aircraft use “fly-by-wire” technology whereby a computer between the side stick and the control surfaces limits the pilot’s input...