Claire: Hello, everyone. This is 5 Minuteswith AOPA-China. I’m very happy that we have Mr. Chris Turner with us thistime. So Mr.Chris Turn, could you introduce yourself a little bit?
Chris: Hi everyone, I’m Chris Turner, a captain from the UK.Currently, I’m living in Greece and will be moving to China early in 2019.
Claire: Welcome to China. When did youbecome a pilot?
Chris: I learned to fly when I was 18 in the BritishArmy, flying helicopters.
Claire: Howmany hours have you flown so far?
Chris: I’vegot just over 6,000 hours currently, 3500 hours in the British Army, over 2500hours for civilian.
Claire: Youhave flown both military and civilian. How many types of aircraft have youflown?
Chris:Without checking my logbook, I’ve got 30 plus aircraft varying fromhelicopters, military fast jets to heavy body transports. When I was inmilitary, I was a senior examiner for all aircraft types, and in civilianworld, I was a IOC captain driving various different aircraft.
Claire:Your experiences are mind-blowing. To my understanding, AOPA-UK has been anvery active player in the IAOPA society. Are you a member of AOPA-UK?
Chris:Yeah, I was an AOPA-UK member when I lived in the UK.
Claire: Areyou an Aircraft owner?
Chris:Yeah, I had my own aircraft Christen Eagle II which is a short-coupled biplane,high performance, very similar to Pitts Special S2, I used to use that forcompeting in aerobatics throughout the UK.
Claire: Soyou are also an aerobatic pilot. And I want to know in the UK, If you want tofly, where can you fly?
Chris:Essentially in the UK, you can fly anywhere as long as you don’t infringeairspace that is category D, CTRs(control zones) and Class A airspace. Butotherwise, you can fly anywhere you want. If you get clearance, you can enterClass D or if you hold the instrument rating, you can enter Class A withclearance.
Claire:That is very attempting. As regards the clearance, how long does it take foryou to get your flight plan approved.
Chris: Inthe UK, as in a lot of European counties, if you fly VFR, you don’t need flightplan, no notification or clearance is required. If you fly IFR, you do need aflight plan and that will take you only 5 minutes.
Claire:Comparatively speaking, the UK really has this open airspace for everyone tofly in. How many general aviation airports or landing areas are there in theUK?
Chris: Inthe UK, just 1800 air fields, anything from big tarmac airfield such as Heathrow,Stansted to people’s private fields, out of those 130 roughly are the mainsites where general aviation is conducted.
Claire: Howmany GA pilots are there in the UK?
Chris:There is currently 28,000 private pilots registered, 10,000 glide pilots, ontop of that, there are 19,000 professional pilot license holders. So I gave youan idea just how many pilots are in the small country like the UK.
Claire:You’ve flown so many hours. And through all those years, can you share yourfavorite flight with us? The most unforgettable one.
Chris: It’squite difficult to say actually. I’ve got a lot of different flight. Probablythe one standing in my memory at themoment is the one to Mozambique. We weredown there,in Kingair 350, verynice trip, we’ve down there for a month.When we were back, it wasn’t really avery good time, we got pressure seal blow on the rear passenger door, whichinvolved an emergency turn-back and landing but probably it was nothing, probablyjust for that reason. It was a good fun with an emergency that stands out mymind.
Claire:What kind of services are you looking for from AOPA-China?
Chris: Frommy standpoint I’d like to say AOPA-China mature and progress to be like itssisters and cousins in other countries, adding values to all the members anddriving the general aviation in a country where the reality is green field.Green field, I mean it’s very new and no body yet does that. That’s what I’dlike to say: the ability for that to grow within the governmental controlissues.
Claire:thank you so much Chris. That brings us to the end of 5 Minuted withAOPA-China. If you have anything to share, you can always find us on Facebook,Twitter, Ximalaya and Wechat. We are here waiting for you. That’s all for todayand see you next week.
Words:
1. Helicopter直升机
2. Logbook 航空日志
3. Short-coupled aircraft
4. IAOPA：International Councils of Aircraft Owners andPilots Association
国际航空器拥有者及驾驶员协会
5. CTR: control zone：管制区
6. Instrument rating：仪表等级
5分钟访谈录（“档案”一说是小编突发奇想，纯属虚构哈哈）
制作时间：公元2018年12月
地点：北京、上海
题目：Chris Based in Greece
人物：Chris Turner, ClaireShangguan
文件编号：5M-2018-12XX-CONFIDENTIAL
注：2018年12月7日下午5点之前，此档案存于中国AOPA绝密档案库。
以下对话发生在12月的一个午后，天空蓝蓝的，万里无云。
——我们很高兴你加入了中国AOPA，能简单介绍一下自己吗？
我是Chris Turner,来自英国。18岁那年，我成为了一名军人，并在军队里开始学习飞直升机。现在我在希腊生活，是一名机长。2019年年初，我会前往中国，那里将成为我的下一个基地。
（Chris图片）
——到目前为止，你一共飞了多少种机型？
三十多种，从直升机，军机到民航的宽体客机。具体的机型我还需查阅航空日志。我在军队时，是一名高级考试员，负责所有的机型；飞民航时，担任机长。目前我的飞行小时数超过了6000小时，军队飞行小时数3500小时，民航飞行小时数2500多小时。
——你是英国AOPA的会员吗？
我在英国时加入了英国AOPA.并且我有自己的飞机：Christen Eagle II,它是一架小型的双翼机，机翼跟尾翼之间的距离不大，有点像Pitts Special S2。以前在英国时，我常常开着它去参加特技飞行比赛。很是怀念。
（插入CHristen Eagle图片、Pitts图）
——听起来在英国，飞行似乎十分自由。
是的，只要不违规进入A类、D类空域以及一些管制区，你可以飞到任何你想去的地方。“不违规”是指进入A类或D类空域之前必须获得准入许可，当然，A类空域还要求飞行员具备仪表等级的飞行执照。
——如果要获得准入许可，飞行计划大约多久可以获批？
在英国，如果是目视飞行的话，无需提交飞行计划，也无需获得飞行许可，自己对自己的飞行负责就是了。仪表飞行则需要提交飞行计划，5分钟之内获批。
——英国有多少通航机场？
从设施精良的大型机场到小的私人机场，共1800多个，其中有130多个是专门用来通航飞行的。另外，英国现在有28000多位私照飞行员，10000多名滑翔机飞行员，除此之外，还有19000名职业飞行员。你可以通过这些数据，感受一下像英国的航空发展情况。
——你能讲讲最难忘的一次飞行经历吗？
我有很多不同的飞行经历，很难说哪一个是最难忘的。现在，我脑海里浮现的是飞往莫桑比克的那一次。我们在那儿待了一个月，特别开心。只是回程的时候出了点儿小插曲，飞机尾部舱门的阀门松开了，我们不得不紧急降落，当然大家最后都安然无恙。可能正是因为紧急降落这点儿小插曲才让我一直记忆犹新吧~
——现在作为中国AOPA的会员，有什么话相对我们说吗？
与中国AOPA接触的这几个月里，我感受到你们十分努力和用心，期望像其他各国的AOPA一样为会员争取更多的权益，推动通航在中国的发展。中国通航刚刚起步，虽然政府管制比较严格，但我更相信AOPA能力。
此份档案经Christ同意，于2018年12月7日公布。
