Zhao Feiyan and Zhan Yuntian found Li Haifeng's calm demeanor quite unbelievable. Isn't this recruit's heart made of steel?
Those who have never flown a plane will never understand the tremendous psychological pressure and strong physical reactions involved. There is a saying in the Army that veterans are afraid of bullets and recruits are afraid of artillery shells. If you hear the "whoosh" of the bullet, it means it is not far from your head. The huge explosion of the shell may sound scary, but it is actually far away.
There is also a saying in naval aviation. The older the pilot, the more aware he is of the seriousness of sudden dangers in the air. New pilots have the energy of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, but the psychological fear is not that deep.
It is said that the first time the legendary pilot Comrade Li Zhan encountered a dangerous situation in the air was when he hit a bird. During the landing stage, he peed his pants directly after parachuting. He was so frightened. However, this matter has never been confirmed by me.
What surprised Zhao Feiyan and Zhan Yuntian the most was that Li Hai's superiors actually let him go around in such a short period of time. What does this mean? It certainly doesn’t mean that the superior leadership is inconsiderate, but it means that this recruit’s psychological quality is extraordinary!
But they didn't know that when flying the No. 037 J-7EGGH, Li Hai's psychological quality was criticized by Shi Leilei.
Facts have proved that it is not about whether the psychological quality is strong or not, but also depends on the object. How many tough guys are extremely nervous when facing the woman they like?
Zhao Feiyan secretly thought to herself that the Flying Sharks training camp was indeed unusual, and no one among them was ordinary. Of course that's the case. Anyone who can join the Flying Sharks training team has two skills. Without that diamond, it would be impossible to get the porcelain job of carrier flight.
Those who have diamonds have to undergo training, assessment, retraining, and assessment again... In the end, only some people get the qualification to land on the ship.
"Xiao Li, your experience is simply invincible." Zhao Feiyan gave a thumbs up and said with a smile, "As long as you continue to develop step by step, you will have a bright future and you will become a brigade commander sooner or later."
Li Hai smiled bitterly and shook his head, "To be honest, it's because of this dangerous incident that I haven't been able to complete my solo debut, otherwise I should be in the big class."
"So that's the reason." Zhan Yuntian suddenly realized and said, "But if you think about it from another perspective, there are so many pilots on Hainan Airlines, and only a few of them encounter special air dangers on their first solo flights. This experience is rare. "
He gave a thumbs up and said, "The most important thing is that you completed the turn to no man's land at the critical moment and made a great contribution. What you learned in this process cannot be taught by a teacher."
"I understand, so I don't think too much about it and seriously complete my solo debut." Li Hai said.
Zhao Feiyan patted Li Hai's shoulder heavily and said, "You are a boy who was born with blessings but does not know how to be blessed."
"How do you say this?" Li Hai was confused.
Zhao Feiyan explained with a smile, "I understand now. Team Shi is here for you. If it weren't for you, Lao Zhan and I would probably be handed over to other ordinary teachers. Let you have another solo debut, that's for you An opportunity to perform better! Also, you encountered a special air danger. To put it bluntly, you came down safe and sound without causing casualties or other losses on the ground. What was originally a big bad thing is now a good thing. Look at it. Well, it won’t be long before the first-class merit comes to you.”
"That's right, after completing the investigation, it's time for you to take credit." Zhan Yuntian agreed.
Li Hai was a little embarrassed, "Well, I didn't think much about it."
"Hahaha, there is nothing to be embarrassed about. Soldiers regard honor as their life. This is honor. Young man, if you keep up your efforts, you will have a bright future!" Zhao Feiyan said with a smile.
Zhan Yuntian corrected him, "It's not appropriate to keep working hard. It's better to make new achievements again."
"Yes, yes, let's make new achievements!" Zhao Feiyan said.
Look at each other and smile.
Li Hai clearly felt that Zhao Feiyan and Zhan Yuntian's attitude towards him had changed significantly. Although they had said before that all students were equal, the subconscious concept of superiority and inferiority was still there, and Li Hai was a real recruit. , the politeness to him is the politeness of superiors to subordinates.
It's different now. After knowing Li Hai's awesome move, Zhao Feiyan and Zhan Yuntian admired Li Hai from the bottom of their hearts, and immediately regarded Li Hai as equal students.
Very realistic, but that's the reality. If you can't control the joystick properly, you can't expect to be respected by others.
Until lunch, Li Hai was introducing the performance and characteristics of the J-15 heavy-duty carrier-based fighter to the two, interspersed with the use characteristics of the fixed-wing fighter. On the other hand, he was also asking the two for their experience in maritime flight. .
Whether it is a helicopter or a fighter jet, most of the conditions encountered when flying at sea are the same, such as sea weather, the sway of the mothership, etc., the same.
"When the helicopter lands, it will be affected by the air field of the mothership's stern flow." Zhan Yuntian introduced with a gesture, "The stern flow generated when the mothership sails at high speed is quite powerful and will disturb the air above the stern of the ship. During landing, In addition to paying attention to the crosswind, you also need to pay attention to the disturbed air. This process is very fragile, and if anything goes wrong, it will have serious consequences."
Li Hai nodded in agreement, "Yes, carrier-based fighter jets enter and land from behind the mothership, and the mothership must sail at full speed during takeoff and landing. At a speed of up to thirty knots, the air behind the mothership is It will be disrupted. The instructor often emphasizes this when we have theoretical classes.”
Taking off and landing at sea not only need to overcome the difficulties of nature, but also overcome the unavoidable objective difficulties caused by itself. A large number of warships built during the Soviet period had very messy layouts of shipboard weapons, radar equipment, etc. They looked like they were randomly placed there. In fact, this was the result of the hard work of Soviet engineers. The reason was very simple - to provide Leave a passage for each piece of shipboard weapons and equipment. For example, weapons need fire channels, and radars need detection channels. It is necessary not only to avoid mutual influence but also to make every weapon and equipment play its maximum role.
Even so, it cannot be perfect, and even when one or several of the ship-borne weapons on some warships are used, the other part must be unusable.
The root cause is that the Soviet Union's electronic technology was backward and unable to integrate a large number of electronic devices. At the same time, Western warships were neat and beautiful, benefiting from advanced integration technology that integrated electronic equipment.
Of course, the takeoff and landing of carrier-based fighter jets is by no means as simple as what Li Hai said. From a theoretical perspective, it can only be discussed to this extent. Therefore, the importance of real aircraft flight training has become increasingly highlighted. Saying it 10,000 times is not worth doing it once. This is the truth.
"Another big difference between sea-air flight and land-air flight is the reference object. After we boarded the ship and returned to the land base station for training, the feeling was very obvious. There are reference objects and landmarks on the ground, but there are no such objects when flying at sea. Navigation is a very important landmark. There is no navigation station. I think this difference should be the most obvious." Zhan Yuntian expressed his opinion in a deep voice.
The navigation station is one of the most important height adjustment facilities in flight activities and one of the guidance facilities that is indispensable during the landing stage of the aircraft. In the past, when the recording and navigation equipment of fighter planes was not so advanced, pilots not only relied on navigation stations to fly, but also recorded a large number of landmarks in the relevant areas, which were reference objects. Even now, pilots still cannot do without reference objects when flying visually.
There are naturally no such things on the vast sea.
This is why pilots who are good at land and air flying will still regard sea flying as a difficult subject, especially long-distance low-altitude sea-skimming flights.
After Zhan Yuntian and Zhao Feiyan talked interactively, Li Hai felt even more profoundly. What you get on paper is ultimately shallow, but it becomes profound after you experience it. Even though it is someone else's experience, the feeling is deeper than what you get from the book.
Being able to be selected into the Flying Shark training team with no basis in fixed-wing fighter flying, Zhan Yuntian and Zhao Feiyan certainly relied not only on their excellent theoretical knowledge, but also on their flying experience.
When the Flying Shark Force selects students, it assesses all-round qualities and abilities. Unless a single item is particularly outstanding, there are such people in several batches of students in the past few years. But in the final analysis, what they mainly face are pilots with excellent all-round qualities and abilities. .
Although Zhan Yuntian and Zhao Feiyan have almost zero foundation in fixed-wing fighter jets, they are very outstanding in other aspects. This is the main reason why they were exceptionally approved to join the Flying Shark training.
Li Hai is having a tea party here, and Dang Weimin has already boarded the simulated cockpit in the training center. The J-15S (two-seat J-15) is still in the final stage of flight testing, and the simulated cockpit has not been in service for a long time. The construction of the entire Flying Shark Force is far from perfect. It can only be said that it is on track.
The tall simulated cockpit was something Dang Weimin had never seen before. When he was reading the theory and waiting in the simulated cockpit, it was difficult for him to concentrate on the theory book. The instructor made it clear that after the simulated cockpit training was over, the J-15 was not available as a two-seater, which meant that the instructor could not fly it. They would fly solo as soon as they got on the plane. The simulated cockpit training phase will last until the end of the entire theoretical learning phase.
The instructor's original words were this: "You have completed the training of the Seamount Eagle, which is the training of higher education aircraft. Except for Dang Weimin who has fewer flying hours, everyone else has at least 200 hours of flying hours of higher education aircraft. . After two months of simulated cockpit training, modify the J-15 for solo flight. If you can’t do it, that’s when you leave Feisha.”
Except for Dang Weimin, the other nine trainees are all veteran pilots selected according to the traditional army-base model. Dang Weimin and Li Hai are two trainees from the growth class who joined the Flying Shark training in advance. The other nine trainees are all outstanding pilots from the navy and air force, and they have very strong skills.
To put it bluntly, among this group of Flying Shark Training Team students, only Li Hai and Dang Weimin are serious recruits.
