The Board of Supervisors' April 23 vote will be a milestone in a four-year effort to update JWA's general aviation operations and infrastructure, including buildings and airfield roads, to comply with current Federal Aviation Administration standards.
Finally, it reviews general aviation facilities such as those for aircraft maintenance, supporting infrastructure and ancillary facilities.
An example is a chart showing a significant decline in generation aviation accidents with the headline "general aviation accident crash rate remains steady".
But the government has yet to announce anything.Without the opening up of airspace, general aviation in China faces a chicken-and-egg problem: the lack of infrastructure on the ground limits the prospects for growth, but without more flights there is little reason to invest in such infrastructure, or in training schemes for pilots and technicians.
In a report to Congress last month, the aviation administration warned that "given the ubiquity of general aviation aircraft and airports, such aircraft are never far from major urban centers, critical infrastructure and other targets".
General aviation also enables helicopter rescue and ambulance services, air taxis and easier maintenance of power lines, pipelines and other infrastructure in far-flung places.But things are still at a very early stage in China, which accounts for less than 1% of the world's general-aviation fleet.
Not surprisingly, infrastructure and trained pilots are thin on the ground.That is changing as China's leaders begin to see general aviation as a way to unlock the potential of the country's vast interior.
Enhancing aviation infrastructure and system capacity is the right solution.
Is general aviation really a valid target?
Many general aviation aircraft and commercial aviation aircraft are manufactured from high-polymer composite materials.
