IndiGo to hire 1,500 People in 2011

Low-cost carrier IndiGo on
Wednesday said it plans to hire up to
1,500 people this year to support its
major expansion drive. " IndiGo will hire 1,200-1,500 people in the
calendar year 2011, of which 400-500
would be cabin crew staff, 200-300
pilots, besides some engineers and
ground staff," IndiGo President Aditya Ghosh told PTI. At present, IndiGo has about 3,400
employees and by the end of this year
the number is expected to go up to
4,500-5,000.
In January this year, the no-frill carrier
made news by announcing acquisition of 180 A-320s, worth an estimated $
15.6 billion, from European plane
manufacturer Airbus — the single largest aircraft deal in global aviation
history.
This is the second time IndiGo has
placed such a massive aircraft order.
The company had first entered into an
agreement with Airbus in 2005, to buy 100 A-320s worth $ 6 billion.

Travel Tips:Tips for Safer Flying

Flying can be an adventure, but like
everything else in life, there are small
risks. Even though flying is the safest
way to travel in this modern age, here
are some tips to minimize any
unfortunate, but unlikely event of an emergency situation.
* Try to only fly nonstop routings
Takeoff, climb, descent, and landing
phases of flights have the most
occurrences of accidents. To reduce
these risks reduce the amount of
exposure to these phases of flight by
trying only to fly nonstop.
* Choose a larger aircraft
Aircraft under 30 passengers are not
required to be designed and certified
under strictest regulations. Also
statistically, in a larger aircraft, you
have a better chance of survival in an
unlikely event of a serious accident.
* Pay Attention to the locations of the
emergency exits
Preflight instructions have become
very repetitious. But the information
given regarding the exits are very
important to your safety. Pay attention,
the locations of the closest emergency
exits may be different depending on the aircraft and seat you are in.

Cracking Aircraft Windows with Directed Sound Waves

Today our modern military scientists
have found many uses for directed
energy beams. Some of these uses
include communication, non-lethal
weapons and high-energy lasers.
Directed sound waves and harmonics maybe the answer to stopping
manned aircraft in the battlespace on
its way to find our blue force as its
next target. Using such directed waves
we can penetrate and crack aircraft
canopies, rendering the aircraft useless to continue the mission. Or so
disrupt the enemies mission that it is
forced to turn back completely and
abort or even force the enemy pilot to
eject immediately.

ACARS - How does it work

Aircraft Communication Addressing
and Reporting SystemAircraft
Communications Addressing and
Reporting System (or ACARS) is
adigital datalink system for
transmission of small messages between aircraft and ground stations
via radio or satellite. The protocol,
which was designed by ARINC and
deployed in 1978,uses telex formats.
It will be superseded by the
AeronauticalTelecommunications Network (ATN) protocol and others
more sophisticated. History of ACARSPrior to the
introduction of datalink, all
communication between the aircraft
(i.e., theflight crew) and personnel on
the ground was performed using
voice communication.This communication used either VHF or HF
voice radios, which was further
augmented with SATCOM in the early
1990s.In many cases, the voice-
relayed information involves
dedicated radio operators and digital messages sent through an
Aeronautical Telecommunications
Network (ATN) to an airline teletype
system or its successor systems. Introduction of ACARS SystemsThe
airlines, in an effort to reduce crew
workload and improve data
integrity,introduced the ACARS system
in the late 1980s. (A few initial ACARS
systems were introduced before the late 1980s, but ACARS did not start to
get any widespread use by the major
airlines until the later part of the
1980s.)