Are there any kit/lsa/ul manufacturers here in community?

[Auburntsts]

What's the state of General Aviation (GA) in India? How does it compare with other countries? IMO, without a viable non-turbine GA environment (ie no significant barriers to private plot certification or the Indian equivalent, GA aircraft certification and registration, piston engine fuel availability, airport and airspace access, etc) there's not much of a chance that there would be any kind of business case analysis that would support setting up operations there, E-AB or otherwise.

[vamsi krishna b]

What's the state of General Aviation (GA) in India? How does it compare with other countries? IMO, without a viable non-turbine GA environment (ie no significant barriers to private plot certification or the Indian equivalent, GA aircraft certification and registration, piston engine fuel availability, airport and airspace access, etc) there's not much of a chance that there would be any kind of business case analysis that would support setting up operations there, E-AB or otherwise.

Todd in India civil aviation is maintained by Directorate General of Civil Aviation(DGCA)... as per ur question , when compared to other countries the norms are little bit tough unlike United states(don't know about other nearby Asian countries, but Thailand , Malaysia are better compared to India as i heard )... In USA , when compared to population there are more than 4 times than US... and area wise it is lower than US ... i think there are not more than 1000 civil aircrafts(including private jets, turboprop, piston , light sport etc..)....so when coming to light sport / ultralight and home built aviation norms have changed, i will send u a Private Message regarding this and the analaysis

[Auburntsts]

Todd in India civil aviation is maintained by Directorate General of Civil Aviation(DGCA)... as per ur question , when compared to other countries the norms are little bit tough unlike United states(don't know about other nearby Asian countries, but Thailand , Malaysia are better compared to India as i heard )... In USA , when compared to population there are more than 4 times than US... and area wise it is lower than US ... i think there are not more than 1000 civil aircrafts(including private jets, turboprop, piston , light sport etc..)....so when coming to light sport / ultralight and home built aviation norms have changed, i will send u a Private Message regarding this and the analaysis

Thanks for the info you sent me in the PMs. After taking a look and doing a bit more online research, I think the development of a private/sport segment of the Indian GA market will be a tremendous uphill battle. From what I can tell, almost 100% of the GA activity is focused on development of business aviation. Any private/sport aviation development seems to be an afterthought at best. As a result, getting major kit manufacturers to commit to basically non-existent market (you don't have the GA infrastructure or pilots) just isn't going to happen. The good news is the regulatory atmosphere doesn't appear overly burdensome. So IMO (and I'm no expert), a viable GA market could be developed, but would need significant governmental and local industry buy-in. Probably the best idea is to monitor what's going on with GA in China as a possible model for India.

[vamsi krishna b]

Thanks for the info you sent me in the PMs. After taking a look and doing a bit more online research, I think the development of a private/sport segment of the Indian GA market will be a tremendous uphill battle. From what I can tell, almost 100% of the GA activity is focused on development of business aviation. Any private/sport aviation development seems to be an afterthought at best. As a result, getting major kit manufacturers to commit to basically non-existent market (you don't have the GA infrastructure or pilots) just isn't going to happen. The good news is the regulatory atmosphere doesn't appear overly burdensome. So IMO (and I'm no expert), a viable GA market could be developed, but would need significant governmental and local industry buy-in. Probably the best idea is to monitor what's going on with GA in China as a possible model for India.

Thank you Todd... if you have any plan or any contacts planning for kit manufacturing or ready to fly option , please have an eye here

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