Episode Details

Guest: Ian Quinn

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 13th of July 2025

Published: 14th of July 2025

Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes, 55 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood chats with Ian Quinn, aka ‘chinapilot’ on the Wings Over New Zealand Forum – https://rnzaf.proboards.com

Ian started his aviation career volunteering as a schoolboy at the Wellington Aero Club in the 1960s. He then went on to a long career in commercial aviation, including flying skiplane Cessnas with Mount Cook Airlines, flying in Australia, New Britain, Bougainville, Fiji, NAC, Air New Zealand and Cathay Pacific.

He lives in Hong Kong, where this interview was conducted from via Zoom, and since retiring from Cathay he has worked for the Hong Kong air accidents authority. Ian talks all about the interesting roles he has had in aviation, the places he has lived and the people he has met along the way.

The music is Wild Flower by Joachim Karud.

Photos from Ian Quinn’s collection. All are copyright Ian Quinn.