My cabinet / Hong Kong
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Excellence is the norm at Hong Kong’s Government Flying Service – just ask its controller.
Based: Hong Kong
Established: 1993
“We are one of the most difficult government departments to get into,” says Michael Chan, better known as The Captain among his 250-plus colleagues at Hong Kong’s Government Flying Service. Unlike desk-bound, suited state officials, the 55-year-old controller always sports an olive jumpsuit. The vehicles parked in his lot are a fleet of 11 aircraft, including a Bombardier Challenger 605 and Eurocopter AS332 L2 Super Puma.
Operating as an arm of the city’s Security Bureau, in 2017 Chan’s team got called upon more…
