Aviation entrepreneurship is faltering: it takes enough patience to detect millions

I dark Horse: Next year China will open low altitude controls to allow private jets to use the airspace below 1000 meters, Reuters reported. This means that China's general aviation industry will have huge development opportunities, but compared with the United States, China's general aviation is still in an early stage. To start a business in this field, you must have a professional background, a network of airline contacts, and patience to wait for certification. Production parts approval to wait five years, how hard is aviation business? Wen/"Entrepreneur" reporter Wang Yu chao through the plant full of weeds, "entrepreneurial" reporter into Liu June's office, here only a few sets of tables and chairs, the window of the big van passing through the Roar deafening. The founder of the airline, in this environment, began to tell the story of him and the rotary-wing machine. The more than 40-year-old Northwest Man in the early days of the flight test yard to do ground, 2007, the founder of the Air Force, began to try to build a rotary-wing machine, which is similar to a helicopter-like aircraft, the top has a rotary wing, relying on the rear of the cabin propeller to provide power. From the study abroad to self-study aircraft, and then to design self-control, 5 years down, Liu June has been cast into millions of, the current test machine will be released, but procedures, qualifications are not complete, the most important design certificate, model card, production certificate, airworthiness certificate have not been obtained. He had prepared all the filings, but not yet, because handing them up meant a lot of overhead. His rotor machine cost about 500,000 yuan, currently has two models, each model to build at least three prototypes, for the broken-loop experiment and test flight, add up to about 3 million yuan. But in addition to the funds, the greater difficulty is to apply for various permits. In accordance with current regulations, manufacturers use aircraft from design to production, test flight, and even practitioners need certification, including design certificates, production licenses, model cards, and so on, if the operation also has airworthiness certificate, international grade card, stickers license and so on. This long process made Liu June feel hopeless. In order to shorten the certification process, Liu June conceived a way to find a joint production of foreign agencies, the state forensics, and then the aircraft sold to the country. That would lead to a technology drain and lower profits, but it would be a final way for him. "Black Fly" why repeated? Every year there are many entrepreneurs, such as Liu June, with enthusiasm to kill into the aviation industry, hoping to take a piece of the future blue sea, but most of them did not want to, often a card for several years can not get down, many people have been dragged down. They do not realise that this is a highly professional industry and that there are still strict controls. Liu June's university classmate, originally in the flight Test Courtyard colleague Chang Jianqin also started in 2007, set up the United Airlines, by operating aviation teaching equipment to make some money. He has also developed an aircraft based on the development of a rotorcraft--a flying vehicle that can not only fly in the sky, but also carry four wheels below and run on the road like a car. In the last week of July 2012, Chang Jianqin with a large scale model of his flying car, attended the Oshkosh City (Oshkosh), about 200 kilometres north of Chicago (Wittman) The "EAA" conference held at the airport. This is the spontaneous mass flight Congress of American aviation enthusiasts, although had heard earlier, but Chang Jianqin was still surrounded by tens of thousands of aircraft. At the Convention, a 6-and 7-year-old American child studied Chang Jianqin's model of flying cars, then thumbs up and said, "You got it." This detail makes Chang Jianqin impressive, the American flying consciousness has done "from the doll grabbed." And the other thing that makes him unforgettable, an American friend in Sunday about him to go fishing, said to take the fishing rod, drove straight to the airport, after the plane and the tower contact, said that he would go to the place, the tower then the route, height, scheduled arrival time told him, and then took off, as convenient as driving. In 1997, China opened restrictions on citizens ' application for a private flight licence. Spending millions of to buy a plane is no longer a problem for a group of people who are rich first. However, for a long time, many of the domestic buyers of private aircraft in the "Black Fly", that is, without the consent of the competent authorities to fly. This is particularly the case in Jiangsu. A typical case is April 27, 2010, Wenzhou yueqing everyone Xu Weijie driving Hummingbird helicopter, in his hometown Leqing Lecheng Dam head Village illegal flight, resulting in Shanghai Pudong, Hongqiao International Airport flights large area delays or the preparation of the surrounding airport. Afterwards, Xu Weijie and so on by the Civil Aviation Safety Supervision Department fine 29,000 Yuan. "Black fly" is harmful to flight safety, but still repeated. "Black flies" usually blame the airline management for being too harsh. In accordance with existing regulations, personal flying must meet three conditions: first, the aircraft to be issued by the Civil Aviation Authority of the "Aircraft airworthiness permit"; the second is that the pilot must have a valid flying license; The third is to apply to the civil and military Aviation Administration for the flight area and flight plan, and to approve the flight. One of these discrepancies is illegal flight. According to a doctor in the United States, the U.S. management of low altitude private flight is strict and economic, "before flying also need to submit for approval, but is online." It is reported that Huaxi also set up an airline, but take off a day earlier to the Air Force and other departments to report plans, and the United States only half a small times ahead of time. "They have become normal," the doctor said, "If you don't get to the destination within the stipulated time after taking off, they think you're wrecked and you don't call the police. "Market-oriented pain August 19, 2010, the State Council, the Central Military Commission issued a" on the deepening of China's low altitude airspace management reform ideas, intended to activate the low altitude airspace resources to promote the development of general aviation. " According to the regulations, the low altitude airspace management reform pilot includes "two regions, seven communities", namely the whole North East, South Central, as well as Tangshan, Xi ' An, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Kunming, Chongqing and other fields. In the pilot area, light fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters are allowed to fly at altitudes below 1000 metres. Behind the low level of openness is the huge gap between China's aviation industry and advanced countries. According to a person in the civil aviation system, the entire nation30% of the manufacturing sector is related to aerospace, and 8% of GDP comes from aviation, compared with 0.5% in China. The take-off of the big plane needs to improve the overall level of the aviation industry system and the full operation of Marketization, and the private capital can add vigor and power to it. In recent years, more and more private enterprises to join in the field of aerospace, but the difficult marketization of the road will be a lot of the founder of Flying Dream back to the original. In Xi ' an aviation base, Han Hui founder of the quartet materials in the first successful development of magnesium lithium alloy, this very light composite metal originally only the United States, Russia can produce, can replace aluminum alloy. But Han Hui has been in around for nearly a year, because of "new" reason, he wants to carry the product to the research institute to do testing, in order to produce a can obtain the Aerospace Department approval performance index. Some of these experiments will cost 120,000 yuan, some is 50,000 yuan start, hourly fee of 3000 yuan. Han Bai Feng to do the experiment on millions of dollars, but the next year there are 3 million yuan experiment waiting for him. These experiments are not as rich as they can be, and they have to wait for the clearance time of other research projects. Market-oriented pains are not private enterprises, an investor to the "entrepreneur" told the following case. One of the world's top 500 companies want to work with a domestic listed company to produce air connectors, which China does not have. The U.S. company's products have been used in a variety of military aircraft and civil aircraft, once the two sides cooperate, the domestic aviation industry, a short board is expected to fill. However, the Chinese enterprises to the relevant departments were informed that after the completion of all the approval process to spend 5 years, before this can not be produced. The company can't afford to wait, so it has to be deterred. "Why is it that foreign countries have been recognized and used and have to do complex certification at home?" The investor asked. He revealed that the difficulty of aviation entrepreneurship is not all because of the rigid system, some cases are deliberately for it. Private enterprises into the aircraft industry chain, mostly to the large state-owned enterprises to do matching. State-owned enterprises as a demand side will be supporting the company's products to do certification, if such products with their own products to form competition, "it will set the threshold, can drag and drop." This approach is constraining the development of the aviation industry. Reporter learned that the aviation system within an enterprise for domestic and foreign production of a similar type of parts, but in the production standards and technology gap is very large, the export product is the latest technology, in line with international standards, but to the domestic is still used in the 70 's standards. "Once you use the latest standards, all the other departments have to go back and review, and many people's interests will be affected." Most opportunities in the service sector after the founding of the PRC, China has gradually established a complete aviation industry system, state-owned capital occupies the monopoly position of the industry. November 6, 2008, China Aviation Industry first, second group officially merged into China Aviation Industry Group Corporation (AVIC). Avic is the name of the Big Mac, the 2011 asset size reached 520 billion yuan, from electronic products to the engine, and even a variety of military and civilian aircraft can be manufactured, itsOnly listed companies have 22. What are the chances of an aviation start-up besides supporting the Giants at present? United's empty Chang Jianqin gives an answer. He worked in 20, but also made matching, but in recent years closely follow the needs of the industry, aimed at the aviation teaching this blank market, the focus of business to the production of aeronautical teaching equipment, 2011 sales of 30 million yuan, gross margin of up to 30%. With the start of general aviation, the aviation services market is expanding, maintenance, training, leasing business is lower than the threshold of aviation manufacturing, so more suitable for entrepreneurs to intervene. At present, Guanghan, Tianjin and other areas of civil aviation schools have been inadequate training capacity, which provides a chance for private capital to enter, once the general aviation development, this demand will be greater. But there are also investors who warn that it is important to have an insider in the entrepreneurial team to ensure an advantage in aviation services. In the XI ' an aviation base, the vast majority of founders have an aviation background, with resources for them to start a business in this industry to provide the foundation, and the founder of the aviation background, often find insiders to partner. Aviation entrepreneurship value technology, but also a "shortcut" is to cooperate with the university. Key institutions have a lot of scientific and technological achievements every year, from "Taobao" is a good choice. Sifang Materials technical cooperation, Xi ' an Jiaotong University Suzhou Institute of Chaidongrang Professor suggested that entrepreneurs can choose foreign monopolies, the lack of domestic technology to start, so that can save the market before the test link. Another advantage of working with schools is that it is easier to apply for national project funding. The standard of capital evaluation is also worthy of reference. For aviation projects, investor beam sea ice will look at two aspects, first, whether there is a unique, leading technology, as well as technical cooperation resources, and has a continuous research and development capabilities, and the second is what qualification certification, with the upstream and downstream relationship. In his view, the aviation project is not "fast", the early investment long created a high threshold. Another investment agency also said that the current aviation projects in the PE level of investment is very small, a big reason is that the airlines are easy to get loans, entrepreneurs should grasp the early stage of the market, "fully understand the technology, market barriers, quickly seize their customers." Links: General aviation is a kind of arm of the aircraft industry chain, specifically refers to the use of civil aviation outside the public air transport activities, including business, tourism, agriculture and other aspects of the flight activities. The village-run airline, which has sparked widespread concern, is part of general aviation. At present, China's general aviation is still in the initial stage.