Li Hai is a high-yield inert explosives pilot. He usually doesn't show off his skills, and sometimes his performance is unsatisfactory. But once he is lit and explodes, the power produced will surprise everyone, including himself. Incessantly.
In other words, he is a pressure pilot. The greater the pressure, the better his performance. The premise is that his psychological quality can keep up with it at a high level.
After going through the early stages of his solo career, and experiencing the low point of unsatisfactory performance in the Flying Sharks training team, and through Li Zhan's guidance, his understanding has been very clear, and he knows how to clearly understand what should be kept in mind and what should be done. Let it go as a fart.
At this moment, without being able to contact the ground to learn the specific location of the fishing boat in distress, he very calmly maintained the course and altitude and flew toward the sea area where the incident occurred.
He was in a hurry when taking off and couldn't make full preparations as usual. Li Hai could only use a highlighter pen to briefly outline the navigation information on the aeronautical map and put it in the side pocket of his flight pants. He freed one hand to take out the navigation chart, checked the navigation information with the light in the cockpit, and compared it with the flight data displayed on the instrument. After confirming that there was no problem with the heading, he breathed a sigh of relief.
After flying at cruising speed for about ten minutes, Li Hai began to descend. The weather before him would be worse than when he took off, but he could not see the thick cumulonimbus clouds with the naked eye. The fighter jet plunged in without hesitation, and was immediately thrown into the mixer again. The wings on both sides shook violently up and down, and the fuselage made a "creep" sound that only occurs when maneuvering under heavy overload.
In the chaotic and strong airflow, Li Hai almost had to constantly control the rudder, and even had to push the throttle back and forth from time to time to keep the fighter barely stable.
He did not realize at all how bad the weather was that he was experiencing. The zero visibility made it impossible for him to judge the condition of the clouds, and the J-8F's airborne radar was unable to provide weather information.
On the radar screen of the tower, the red dot representing the J-8F was rapidly descending, and the pitch angle reached -30 degrees. This made Xue Zhengrong and others feel anxious. Such a posture may be that the pilot is controlling the fighter plane to dive down, or it may be that the fighter plane lost control and fell into a dive.
Xue Zhengrong said to himself: "He must be right to pass through the cumulonimbus clouds and reach low altitude as soon as possible."
Suddenly remembering something, Xue Zhengrong turned to ask the weatherman, "How is the storm? What is the low-altitude condition of the sea area where the incident occurred?"
The weatherman quickly replied, "The central wind force reached level 12 and continues to strengthen! The sea area where the incident occurred is already in the eye of the typhoon! The scope of the typhoon eye... is ten kilometers! It continues to expand!"
After heaving a sigh of relief, Xue Zhengrong said, "Dongsan is about to enter the eye of the typhoon."
The airflow within the eye of the typhoon is stable, and Le Hai is at least temporarily safe. At this moment, Xue Zhengrong no longer thought about searching for the fishing boat in distress. The current situation is not whether Li Hai can continue to perform the mission, but whether Li Hai can return safely!
The terrible thing is that Xue Zhengrong has no way to contact Li Hai, otherwise he will not hesitate to ask Li Hai to return to the sea and land before the storm sweeps over the Forgotten Reef!
For eleven long seconds, the descent rate reached 700 meters per second.
Li Hai didn't even think about it. When the fighter plane relaxed, he quickly leveled the plane. His first move was to look at the horizon to make sure the fighter plane was in level flight. He firmly remembered Xue Zhengrong's warning and trusted the instrument completely, although at this time due to inertia, he felt that the fighter plane was still falling.
If you rely on feeling, you will have to pull the lever, and the result will be that the elevation angle is too high and the vehicle will stall.
He quickly felt that the airflow was very stable. After quickly checking the navigation chart to determine his current position, his first judgment was very accurate - it was probably a typhoon that had entered the eye. Referring to the previously obtained position of the fishing boat in distress, Li Hai determined that the target was in the eye of the typhoon.
After pulling down the night vision goggles, Li Hai carefully and slowly turned while reducing altitude and speed. As a result, the fighter plane tilted slightly, and he searched the sea surface through the cockpit glass on the left side.
The sea in the eye of the typhoon was not calm, but it was difficult for Li Hai to see these details. What appeared in front of him was a dark patch of darkness. The instantaneous light brought by an occasional flash of lightning could provide extremely limited visibility, and night vision devices were not omnipotent.
After weighing it up, Li Hai decided to continue to lower the flight altitude and shorten the distance to the sea. This sacrificed the visual search range and increased the risk of hitting the sea.
Li Hai flew in a circle, from inside to outside, conducting an extended search in all directions.
Intelligence showed that the fishing boat in distress had a displacement of thousands of tons and was a large fishing boat 70 to 80 meters long. Li Hai's flight altitude was only three hundred meters. From this distance, the fishing boat in distress should be a very obvious target.
However, when Li Hai encountered strong airflow during his last circle, he still found no trace of the fishing boat in distress. Encountering strong airflow means that you are already on the edge of the eye of the typhoon. The eye of the typhoon is constantly moving, and the fishing boat in distress will not stay still even if it loses power. This raises another possibility - the previously obtained position of the fishing boat in distress is out of date.
Li Hai complained secretly. He lost contact with the ground and was unable to obtain the latest location of the fishing boat in distress. What should he do? If the fishing boat in distress has not sunk and the positioning device on the boat is not damaged, it will continue to send signals, and the Forgotten Reef can receive it. Both ships and land terminals use the Beidou satellite system, which is very reliable.
Xue Zhengrong was also very anxious at this time. He could see the position of the fishing boat in distress very clearly. The flashing dot was still there, indicating that the fishing boat in distress was still floating on the sea. If it was always on, it meant that the boat had disembarked. Shen.
Xue Zhengrong really wants to have the Thousand Miles Sound Transmission Technique so that he can tell Li Hai: "Dong San! The fishing boat in distress is twenty kilometers in front of you! Just due east!"
But when he calmed down, he instead prayed that Le Hai would not continue flying east, because that was the area with the strongest winds. No fighter jet can fly safely in level 12 winds!
"Return! Return! Dong San, return quickly! If you don't return, it will be too late!" Xue Zhengrong gritted his teeth and screamed over and over in his heart, hoping that Li Hai could make a calm choice.
Of course, Li Hai couldn't hear Xue Zhengrong's scream in his heart. He was still thinking about how to conduct the next search. Turning on the airborne radar is one way, but in such bad weather, the performance of the airborne radar is severely restricted, and it is unknown whether it can work.
Another question before us is - in what direction should the search be conducted.
