In addition to business flights, American General Aviation mainly provides emergency services, such as fire fighting, air rescue, surveying and mapping, law enforcement, mail and publication transportation, oil and gas pipeline inspection and exploration, environmental protection and other commercially valuable flights. In addition, there are leisure flight activities including sports, tourism, sightseeing and training. Due to the comprehensive and vigorous development of general aviation in the United States for many years, many people who like to fly have been attracted to obtain flight licenses, which has provided a guarantee for the source of pilots for commercial aviation. Due to the continuous growth of general aviation, the United States has a complete general aviation industry, whose members include: aircraft manufacturers, parts manufacturers, avionics manufacturers, flight schools, flight clubs, flight simulator manufacturers, fixed maintenance bases (FBO), airport development management companies, aircraft vendors, aircraft leasing companies, aircraft intermediary companies, aircraft valuation companies, aircraft decoration companies, aircraft loan and insurance companies, property sharing management companies and investment management companies. Of course, it also includes the most important operators who actually operate various general-purpose aircraft for paid flights. These industry members have formed a healthy and dynamic industry, which brings the economic output value equivalent to $6.4 billion to the United States every year.
Every member of the general aviation industry in the United States has its own association, which carries out technical, management and self-discipline exchanges within the industry, and carries out its economic activities in accordance with the regulations of the Federal Aviation Administration under the Department of Transportation of the United States government. Basically, the U.S. government only plays the role of formulating and supervising general aviation, giving it the proper growth space. Other federal government research institutions, such as NASA, provide scientific research and technology development to improve the performance and safety of aircraft, and try to achieve the goal of popularizing general aviation through scientific and technological means, further equalize the development of cities and villages, improve the congestion of ground traffic, and speed up the flow of personnel, technology and funds, so as to make general aviation as affordable and convenient as ordinary ground transportation.
More than 20 provinces and cities in China have built aviation industrial parks in Yanliang, Xi, which has the reputation of "Seattle, China". The state-level Shaanxi Aviation Economic and Technological Development Zone has absorbed 500 enterprises and formed an industrial chain around aviation manufacturing. Zhuhai Aviation Industrial Park in the Pearl River Delta Economic Circle attracts the AVIC navigation board to settle here, forming a general aviation industrial base integrating R&D, final assembly flight test, sales, maintenance and operation.
Yang Fengtian pointed out that under the rapid surge of "navigation impulse", practical obstacles such as weak supporting facilities of software and hardware, late start of product research and development, and lack of general aviation service system in China also made it impossible to alleviate the tests and challenges faced by industrial development by simply focusing on manufacturing development.
Public purposes such as rescue, surveying and mapping, agriculture and forestry spraying require navigable aircraft, and international enterprises and high-end business people are also eager for efficient and convenient business jets. At the same time, with the rapid development of China's economy, the dream of private flying is also on the rise.
"It is not difficult to buy a plane, but it is difficult to fly; You can afford a plane, but you can't. When checking an air travel route, the pilot refused to fly again because there was a designated controlled airspace ahead. " Chen Yilong, chairman of Xi Anlongteng General Aviation Development Co., Ltd. said.
Chen Yilong has two planes. In the year of 20 1 1, the flying enthusiast's legal flying hours were only a dozen hours, but he paid a total investment of millions. Forced to do so, he simply set up his own navigation company to explore ways to raise planes by plane.
Opportunities:
Ma Xin, deputy director of the Air Traffic Control Bureau of the Office of the State Air Traffic Control Commission, pointed out at the 9th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, which opened on 2010.13, that a low-altitude airspace management operation and service guarantee system with government supervision, industry guidance, market-oriented operation and national integration will be gradually formed.
Yang Fengtian, academician of China Academy of Engineering and president of Liaoning General Aviation Research Institute, said that general aviation is one of the two wings of civil aviation and has been listed as a national strategic emerging industry in China. With the country breaking the ice in the reform of low-altitude airspace management, the development of general aviation industry has ushered in a rare historical opportunity period.
Evaluation:
Authorities in the industry have proposed that the reform of low-altitude airspace management should not only standardize the charging problem, but also solve the problem of reform motivation.
Limited by the approval procedures and airspace control, many people in the circle of domestic private jet owners have tried to "fly secretly". However, the lack of navigable airports, ground service guarantees and aircraft custody has also greatly reduced the fun of flying and the convenience of private jets.
"At present, a series of approval methods for general aviation flight management are being comprehensively and thoroughly improved, which will greatly simplify the flight approval procedures that are generally strongly reflected by navigation units." Ma Xin said.
According to reports, relevant departments are stepping up the revision of general aviation flight control regulations.
Ma Xin said that substantial progress has also been made in supporting low-altitude airspace management infrastructure. The Air Traffic Control Committee has completed the construction of communication command and low-altitude surveillance facilities in Changchun, Hainan Control Zone and Hainan Island "two districts and one island" pilot zone, and is accelerating the transformation and upgrading of general aviation flight service stations.
Provide a demonstration for building a low-altitude flight service guarantee network covering general aviation, and encourage local governments and social capital to participate in navigation development.
"The general aviation enterprises that have survived in the China market have finally survived the difficult' hibernation period' and ushered in the spring," said Zhao, general manager of Flight Test Institute Aviation Club Co., Ltd. China needs more qualified enterprises to become "Red Flying" representatives of general aviation regulations, and lead the participants with "navigation impulse" to develop in an orderly manner.