China News Service, Huludao, July 28 (Liu Shaowei and Zhang Fuhua) Recently, a certain J-15 carrier fighter of the naval carrier aviation unit successfully completed the night air partner refueling. The troops’ all-weather combat capability and actual combat training level have been actually tested and effectively improved .
Night partner refueling training of the Navy's J-15 carrier fighter. Li Chunshe
Aerial refueling is called "airborne needle threading" and "centimeter-level flight". The difficulty is self-evident. Air refueling in the dark and low light conditions is even more thrilling. It is prone to scratches and even air collisions. It is recognized as the top in the world. Flight courses.
Night partner refueling training of the Navy's J-15 carrier fighter. Li Chunshe
"Time to take off." At about 19:00, the troops transferred to night training after completing the daytime refueling training. Following the command of the tower commander, the pilots Lu Chaohui and Xu Aiping respectively piloted the J-15 fighter jets to take the lead and flew to a certain training airspace, preparing to challenge this by means of "partner refueling", that is, air refueling between fighters of the same type. A practical lesson.
At an altitude of several thousand meters, Xu Aiping drove the tanker to turn on the hose switch of the refueling pod, and slowly extended the hose and cone sleeve. Lu Zhaohui turned on the refueling lighting device at night, using the faint light to judge the distance between the oil receiver and the cone sleeve, and find the best docking time. At this time, the distance between the two J-15 fighters is only more than 10 meters. The entire refueling process must ensure that all links are accurate, precise, and precise. This is important to the pilot's operational skills, physiological and psychological, coordination and cooperation capabilities. Make extremely high demands.
"Maintain posture." "Prepare for docking." "Docking."...Lu Chaohui held his breath and continued to adjust his flight attitude, aiming at the timing, inserting the probe into the hose to successfully complete the docking, and then accurately connected into one body and stepped into the "green zone". Start air refueling. After a few minutes, the refueling was over and the receiver was separated. The refueling machine slowly recovered the refueling hose and rushed to the next airspace to start a new round of training. Lu Chaohui said that after completing the refueling and receiving the refueling, they specially summarized the outline and teachings, so that more pilots can conduct night refueling training.
Zhang Ye, the head of the unit organized on the spot, said that in recent years, after overcoming a series of flight technical problems such as day and night landings and daytime aerial refueling, they once again launched an assault on the difficult subject of night aerial refueling. Through careful preparation, specializing in intensive training, independent exploration, overcoming difficulties, and successfully implementing multi-batch and multi-sort flight training, the troops' all-weather combat capabilities have been effectively tempered. (Finish)