(Grassroots in the New Year) Guiyang, Guizhou: "Air Traffic Police" New Year's Eve

　　Chinanews.com, Guiyang, January 21st, title: Guiyang, Guizhou: "Air Traffic Police" New Year's Eve

　　Reporter Zhang Yifan

　　January 21, Chinese New Year's Eve, is the most important reunion festival for Chinese people.

At about 10:30, the hurried passengers in the terminal of Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport were embarking on a journey to reunite with their families.

In the airport control tower that is not paid attention to by passengers, how do the "post-95" controllers work?

After going through various strict procedures and approvals, the reporter and the tower controllers spent New Year's Eve together.

On January 21, at the control tower of Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport, tower controllers are directing flights.

Photo by Li Jie

　　In the eyes of most ordinary passengers, the tower is just the tallest building in an airport, and the 360-degree glass house on the top floor is the symbol.

The industry understands that the control tower is the air traffic control site for directing aircraft takeoff and landing, and taxiing on the ground, and it is the key and vital gate of an airport's safety.

　　Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport has two towers. The old tower has been in use from 2008 to December 2021. With the increase of the airport runway and the increase in capacity, the new tower will be put into use in December 2021.

　　The new tower is located on the west side of Terminal T2 of Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport, with an elevation of about 99M.

After the opening of the new tower, two "firsts" have been realized in China's domestic airports: in terms of airport configuration, it is the first in China to meet the dual-runway operating conditions, and the controller can command the aircraft to go around and land on the runway from the end of the take-off runway In terms of command technology, it is also the first unit in China to implement the technology of "class isolation operation based on binocular vision" and "multi-directional departure and multi-directional guidance area". These "Guizhou civil aviation characteristics" effectively It improves the operating efficiency of Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport and provides a stronger guarantee for the safe travel of passengers.

　　"The use of the new tower can ensure about 670 take-off and landing flights under the condition of dual-runway operation." Xu Jizhong, Secretary of the Party Branch of the Tower Control Room of the Guizhou Air Traffic Management Bureau, said, "In principle, when the controller is 40 years old, he will arrange to other positions, because this position will have an important requirement for concentration and physical strength."

　　There are currently 58 tower controllers in the tower control room of Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport, with an average age of 28. There are 8 teams working in rotation on the tower every day, with a shift every three hours and 24 hours without rest.

　　The control tower is one of the most important tools for airport safety production, and the requirements for practitioners are extraordinary: if the person working in the control tower is not a major in traffic management from China's three major aviation universities (China Civil Aviation University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Chengdu Guanghan Flying College), graduates will go to any one of the three colleges and universities for a one-year study, and this process is also called "big reform" by the controllers.

　　Zheng Sushu, who was on duty on January 21, was a controller who passed the "big reform". From a non-control major graduate to hard work and excellent grades, he entered the control room of Guizhou air traffic control tower. It will take one year to make up all of it.” She joined the job in 2014. She is delicate and capable. She graduated from management and now she has grown into the backbone of the control tower. , and also won the first prize in the teacher competition of Guizhou Air Traffic Management Branch.

　　Wang Yuxuan, born in 1999, is a small girl with a boy's name. She was born in Northeast China and works in Southwest China.

When asked if she felt uncomfortable, she said shyly, "It's the same everywhere I go in this line of work."

　　When Huang Junjie, who was wearing a mask at the control seat, commanded the control seat, he would be considered a young man in his 30s just from his voice and movements.

After the shift was over, he took off his mask, revealing a youthful face. 25-year-old Huang Junjie graduated from the Civil Aviation University of China. After more than a year of internship, he has been working independently as a controller. It's been more than a year." Confidence can't be hidden in his eyes.

　　"It can be said that during the three hours on duty, the air traffic controllers must pay close attention to the status of every aircraft within the airport range, skillfully manage the runway resources, and uninterruptedly bring the sky full of planes to the ground safely, Then send the planes all over the ground to the sky safely, because they are the 'commanders' of the air and ground traffic here." Said Wang Hao, the supervisor on duty on the 21st.

　　Although it is Lunar New Year's Eve, there are still 149 flights taking off and landing on the 21st. For the new tower, the number of flights taking off and landing is much more during the epidemic prevention and control period.

The reporter saw that the tower control room is divided into 6 control seats, namely: head teacher seat, tower control seat, coordination monitoring seat, ground control seat, release permit release seat, and flow management seat. Staring at the runway, monitoring and operating the relay system, sometimes a light spot flashes in front of the screen, and sometimes a data rises up. If you are not well-trained, you will feel dazzled.

Wang Hao told reporters: "This amount is less than 20% of the work intensity of a runway back then. We look forward to the time when the full load will come sooner."

　　The reporter noticed that there is a mobile phone storage box at the entrance to the tower. It is not allowed to carry mobile phones with you when you enter the tower. When the tower is busy, the on-duty staff can only chat about life.

When this group of young people took off their earphones, they would talk about the daily life in their hometown, as if they were a different person, and the tower was filled with youthful vigor.

The controllers of the tower will proudly say that I have seen the first ray of sunshine at the airport, accompanied by the afterglow of the sunset, been shrouded in stars at night, and witnessed the uniqueness of thunder, rain, ice and snow. This unique job is our responsibility and mission. However, a slightly careless instruction will cause a flight error, and countless lives will be involved.

"The controller is a position with accumulated knowledge, and it needs knowledge of meteorology, physics, aviation and other knowledge to complete the mission." Xu Jizhong, the controller, said.

　　On New Year’s Eve, Guiyang has been cloudy and rainy. At 18:00 twilight, the tower controllers ate in batches according to the usual practice. Zheng Susu took off her earphones, tidied up her clothes, and walked out of the control room. At this time, there were nearly a hundred holiday greetings in her mobile phone Information, after making a video call to her family, she walked into the cafeteria, and the breath of the Spring Festival came to her face... (End)