SP's AirBuz - ISSUE No 04-12

Issue Features

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  Managing Airspace Congestion
  By R. Chandrakanth

  The world urgently needs to upgrade its air traffic control systems, especially as rising incomes in the developing world allow millions of people to fly for the first time

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  Making up for Lost Time
  By Deepanjali Bhas

  The Civil Aviation Ministry’s Vision 2020 document envisages creating infrastructure to handle 280 million passengers by 2020. Eight years away from that goal, given the flurry of activity, there is hope that airport modernisation projects might move on fast track.

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  IP: The Way Out

  ATC turns to dynamic routing for enterprise-wide voice communications

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  India is poised to become a world leader

  In an interview with SP’s AirBuz, Rob Bracewell, General Manager of International Sales, Mission Critical Networks Business, Harris Corporation, bets big on the Indian opportunities.

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  Raytheon’s amazing breadth of ATM systems

  In an interview with SP’s AirBuz, Andy Zogg, Vice President, Business Development, Raytheon, spoke about the company’s role as a major ATM system integrator and how its full range of products and services satisfies virtually any ATM requirement, from a small airport system to a gate-to-gate national ATM system.

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  Telephonics with Mahindra to provide ATM solutions

  n an interview with SP’s AirBuz, Joseph J. Battaglia, President and Chief Executive Officer of Telephonics, dwells at length on Telephonics broad product mix and the strong technical capability backing up these products and the JV with Mahindra for India

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  The Lease Option
  By Krishna Shankar

  Nearly 30 per cent of the world’s commercial aircraft are owned by leasing companies. Despite the high level of demand in the market, lease rates are low especially in respect of larger aircraft.

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  Get Set Go
  By Joseph Noronha

  Still shackled by inadequate infrastructure, high costs and lack of a coherent regional aviation policy, Indian regional aviation is like a tiger waiting to be unleashed

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  Growing Concerns
  By B.K. Pandey

  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 including ADS-B, RVSM, satellite navigation and related airborne equipment

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  Unexploited Potential
  By A.K. Sachdev

  Civil aviation use of helicopters has remained underdeveloped due to regulatory, infrastructure and safety issues. The total number of helicopters in the civil domain is 292 (219 on non-scheduled operations, 30 privately owned, 11 with Border Security Force and 32 with state governments/PSUs).

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  Newest EC135 T2e/P2e
  By Staff Correspondent

  With its advanced design and state-of-the-art technology, the EC135 is the aviation market trendsetter

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  For a Greener Aviation
  By A.K. Sachdev

  The next-generation aero engines (PurePower and LEAP-X) are illustrative of the environmental pressures that are here to stay and indicate that existing aero engines can be expected to be replaced by entirely new designs for most segments of power plants for aircraft

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  Lower Costs and the Best Environmental Performance

  Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower engine family offers game changing performance, doubledigit improvements in fuel burn, environmental emissions, engine noise and operating costs for new generation intercontinental business jets and commercial aircraft

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  Low Burn, Low Emissions
  By Sucheta Das Mohapatra

  With more than 22,000 engines delivered till date, a CFM56-powered aircraft takes off every 2.5 seconds. In 2011, CFM introduced the CFM56- 5B PIP for the Airbus A320 family and the CFM56-7BE for the Boeing Next-Generation 737.

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  Growing Orders
  By Sucheta Das Mohapatra

  From engines for very light jets to jumbo jets, engines for land-based industrial gas turbines to space shuttle and rocket engines, engines for fifth-generation fighters to the new PurePower engine family for the next generation of commercial aircraft; Pratt & Whitney is the only provider of engines, parts and services

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  Flight to sustainability
  By Joseph Noronha

  Since supplies of fossil oil cannot last forever, LNG is becoming increasingly important as a cheap and lasting energy source.

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  Stratagems to Beat Recession
  By R. Chandrakanth

  In all, the Farnborough International Air Show was muted, but had enough food for thought for companies to rework their strategies, technologically and marketwise

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  The DGCA Muddle
  By B.K. Pandey

  There was no forward movement in the process of investigation into the scams, as the MoCA had been sitting on the Chief Vigilance Officer’s report. It is now understood that the report has finally been referred to the Central Vigilance Commission.