Yatra Magazine July 2007 | Buddha Air

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No. 13 July 2007

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uddha Air commenced its operation on 11 October 1997 with one Beech 1900 aircraft covering Biratnagar, Pokhara and Mountain flights. With the support of its valued passenger, travel agencies and well wishers, Buddha air which has been providing

KOTFA 2007 Seoul Korea from 7 June to 10 June

services in 9 different destinations with six Beech aircraft is now able to add one more to its fleet. With the operation of the seventh aircraft Buddha Air believes to deliver much safer, reliable and comfortable service, further Buddha Air assures to extent its flights

Staff rewarded Excellency depends on his/her competencies & efforts so Buddha Air has awarded 13 staffs by awarding them with Cash reward, as per their annual performance to develop their

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This is the first time I have read Bud-

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dha Yatra; I found the Amazing facts & Destination very good, as I'm a journalist.

what the company is doing for its safety of "SAFETY AND SECURITY - FIRST AND ALWAYS THE TOP PRIORITY" GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL, MINISTRY OF CULTURE, TOURISM AND CIVIL AVIATION

Rosy Shrestha,Kathmandu Congratulations Buddha Air for being awarded the highest safety record 2006 award ,Buddha air's air crew are really helpful. Dr. Deepak Aryal, Kathmandu Yatra is a really nice news letter, it would be better if you could send a copy to

Nepal Government felicitate Buddha Air Hearty Congratulations to Buddha Air for being awarded "THE HIGHEST SAFETY RECORD 2006" amongst all the Nepali airlines company by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation for its dedication to quality service and passenger-safety as well for the ownership transfer of all six aircrafts in its name.

the aircrafts & for the passengers. Ganesh Shrestha, Kathmandu

AWARDS TO

Buddha Air Pvt. Ltd.

For the Highest Safety Record 2006

I have been fling with Buddha air since

on the occasion of International Civil Aviation Day 7th December 2006

90's it's really wonderful how you have taken care of your passengers. Mjnu kumar limbu, Lalitpur

Bandipur was earlier settled on by the Magars but today, it is the cultural mix of different ethnics and beliefs

It is good Buddha air operates its flight

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Buddha air is the perfect Airlines in the domestic

Buddha air. Gopi Sapkota, Kathmandu

market in Nepal.

Buddha air's service is really nice ,I'm

to Dhangadi, reading yatra was a pleasure because I came to know a lot of things about

all the Royal Club members. Ashok Shrestha,, Kathmandu

Yatra is really good newsletter & its more informative too, its good to know about

Abhishek Sharma, Kuleshwor Service of Buddha Air is absolutely

really thankful to its management ,I wish buddha air for their good costumers service.

Everything is perfect in Buddha air I ap-

very nice and is very comfortable. It would

Parmanand Joshi, Dhangadi

preciate the perfect timing of its flight & the con-

be more joyful journey if the passengers

cept of Royal card is excellent.

would by provided with more mgazine.

Looking at all the domestic Airlines

Aneeva Shakya, Kathmandu

Deekshya Thapa, Koteshwor

Buddha Air Promoted Nine Staff

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organization can run in long term without efficient manpower.

Organization needs a team of capable employees not only for the daily operation but also for the organizational development.

If the employees are not so efficient, Organization should make them capable through different types of programs for the development of their performances.

Buddha Air has decided to promote the employees working at lower band if they are capable for the required posts. Buddha Air has recently promoted nine employees from attendant band working as loader and office boy to support band as an office assistant.

The requirements for the post were 2 years experience for intermediate level and 5 years for SLC. "We are very happy and very proud to

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get this opportunity" they expressed their feelings in one voice, "We were serving buddha air as we can and now the company gave us this opportunity for the appreciation of our labor, efforts and dedications."

Upendra Kumar Majhi,, who has been promoted and transferred from city sales office Hattisar to Revenue division H/O, says " I got the table work in this organization where I had been serving since 3 January 2000, as an office boy. I can't express my feelings in words. I am very thankful to Buddha Air for giving me this great opportunity."

Prakash Karki, who was working at Nepalgunj Station, got the promoted and transferred to Dhangadhi station. He too says that Buddha air gave him the chance to rise and he is thankful for this great opportunity."

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S E R V I C E

Promoting the farmer promoting the nation W

e at Buddha Air feel that Corporate

provision of good seeds.

duced product banking for the farmers

Social Responsibility is the funda-

Once we gained the confidence of

who were organized in this cooperative

mental of being involved in profit making

the farmers, we were able to convince

(which has been registered as per the co-

activities. Every entity has an obligation

them to form a cooperative so that they

operative act). The cooperative charges

towards its society to make it better and

can continue this work as well as intro-

an interest of 12% per annum and pro-

Buddha Air is not exception.

duce product banking. The fundamental

vides loan to the farmers at the begin-

When we became financially ma-

problem of our farmers is; they are not

ning of plantation for requirements such

tured, we started to identify our segment

getting the right price for their product

as seeds and fertilizers . The farmers

of social responsibility and thought that

because the middlemen are very active in

bank their harvest with the cooperative

we need to focus on bringing some eco-

this field and they have the gullible farm-

and will sell them when they get the best

nomic change in the rural mass, which

ers in their account by providing loans at

price, which is about 4-5 months after

constitutes of 85% of the population

an astronomous interest rate that could

harvest.

based on agricultural economy. We did

go up to 60% per anum.

We have already concluded a suc-

not want to dole out some cash for petty

Our responsibility is to break this

cessful season of product banking for

donations, which tends to make people

vicious chain and get the farmers the

paddy last year, where a farmer gained

more dependent .

best price of their product, so we intro-

almost 2 times taking into consideration

We started an agricultural extension program in Tankisunwari VDC of Morang to gain confidence of the local small scale farmers. We are able to increase the production output by simply exposing the farmers to appropriate fertilizer management, required technology transfer and

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the higher yield, saving an interest of the

Our responsibility is to break this vicious chain and get the farmers the best price of their product

loan and better price of their product.

Now, we are planning to support this cooperative but lobbying for funds for the product banking, which will cover the two Village Development Committee where this program is implemented.

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S A F E T Y

M E A S U R E S

Flight Safety at Buddha Air All aircrafts operated by BUDDHA AIR are equipped with ADAS (Aircraft Data Acquisition Unit), SSDFDR (Solid State Digital Flight Data Recorder), and SSDCVR (Solid State Digital Cockpit Voice Recorder).

ADAS: This unit performs following primary functions: (a) Exceedance Event Recording: The ADAS can monitor critical engine parameters and record instances where they have exceeded preset values (exceedances). (b) Engine Trend Monitoring: The ADAS can gather and store engine data samples for trend analysis. (c) Cockpit Indication: The ADAS can be configured to warn the pilot of a prior exceedance on start up or shutdown, and provide system self-test indication.

due to mechanical failures and pilots not following to the prescribed flying procedures according to the aircraft Flight We download the ADAS data regularly and analyze them

Manuals. The weekly reports generated by ADAS and FDR

every week using Turbine Tracker Software developed by AL-

automatically finds if any pilot is not operating as per the

TAIR, the manufacturer of ADAS systems. We make exceedance

manuals if any, which is immediately corrected by the Flight

report based upon the FLIGHT MANUAL and send it to FLIGHT

Safety Division of Buddha Air. All our pilots are operating as

SAFETY Division of Buddha Air for required action. FLIGHT

per the manuals due to these checks. The engineers are also

SAFETY Division then takes necessary action or suggests that

made aware at an early stage if there are anyof malfunctions

involved flight crew so that such exceedance will not be re-

in the aircraft components; specially the engines, which they

peated in the future.

can rectify immediately insuring safe flights.

FDR:

Air Crew

This unit is a part of what we called the BLACKBOX. This unit continuously records more than 18 different engines and

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Instructor Pilot

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(RAM). This data is useful for incident investigation as well as

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Snr. Captain

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for parameter analysis purpose. We download the FDR data

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Captain

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Communications and Aviation Recorders, the manufacturer

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Snr. Co-pilot

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of FDR and CVR. We make exceedance report based upon the

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Co-Pilot

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Trainee Co-Pilot

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airframe parameters at least for 25 hours on memory chips

regularly and analyze them every week using ROSE (Read Out Support Equipment) Analysis Unit. This is developed by L-3

FLIGHT MANUAL and send it to FLIGHT SAFETY Division of Buddha Air for required action. FLIGHT SAFETY Division takes necessary action and suggests the involved flight crew.

The causes of aircraft accidents and incidents are mainly

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E N G I N E E R I N G

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he main objective of Engineering Department is to maintain all Buddha

Air’s aircrafts in airworthy condition as stipulated by CAAN and the aircrafts manuals provided by the manufacturer.

In order to run the department smoothly, it is sub divided into divisions like: Maintenance Division, Maintenance Planning, workshops, Quality assurance, Technical Records, Library, procurement and stores.

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E N G I N E E R I N G

Buddha Air has a large stock of components worth more than US $ 2.5 million including 2 engines, 3 propellers, 3 landing gears, gyros, ACM, Heat Exchanger, etc. and all special tools, testing equipments and ground support equipments required for our aircrafts.

All this helps us to maintain our on time departure by 99%.

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