Cultivate more "flying shark warriors" for aircraft carriers-a group of carrier-based aircraft flight instructors in a base of Naval Aviation University

　　In the autumn and winter, facing the harsh sea breeze, the outfield of a Naval Aviation University base is about to usher in the students of carrier-based aircraft pilot aircraft carrier certification.

Afterwards, the students flew to the "exam room"-Liaoning ship.

Under the complex sea conditions and the continuous movement of the aircraft carrier, the students, under the guidance of the landing commander, drove the fighters to land on the ship smoothly, hooked the arresting cable on the aircraft carrier's deck with great precision, and instantly pulled the arresting cable into A "V" for victory.

　　These young pilots successfully landed on the aircraft carrier's deck with the Flying Shark, setting a new record for the largest number of people on board in a single batch.

The carrier-based flight instructors of a certain base of Naval Aviation University have created a training path for carrier-based aircraft pilots with Chinese characteristics, realizing the accumulation of quantitative changes from "0" to "1" and from "1" to "multiple". The qualitative change from "many" to "war" has made the aircraft carrier more "combat" wings.

In order to "fly to the farther sea"

　　November 23, 2012 was a milestone for the carrier-based aircraft business.

On this day, "Carrier Fighter Hero Test Pilot" Deming Meng drove the J-15 fighter to successfully land on the Liaoning ship for the first time. The Chinese carrier-based pilots achieved a breakthrough from "0" to "1".

On this day, Sun Baosong, Wang Yong, and Yang Yong, who participated in the selection of carrier-based aircraft pilots, were undergoing physical examinations in Beijing. None of them expected that they would become carrier-based aircraft flight instructors and cultivate more "flying shark warriors" for aircraft carriers.

　　The carrier-based aircraft is the core combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier, and the pilot of the carrier-based aircraft is the sharpest point of the aircraft carrier's combat effectiveness.

Sun Baosong had just won the first "Golden Helmet" crown of the Air Force when he heard the news of the recruitment of the carrier-based aircraft force. However, he insisted on "changing a runway" and insisted on becoming a carrier-based aircraft pilot.

　　Although the risk factor of carrier-based pilots is many times higher than that of ordinary fighters, when the selection team asked for advice, Wang Yong said firmly: "Even if it is a sea of ​​flames, I have to break through!"

　　Like Sun Baosong and Wang Yong, pilots such as Yang Yong, Ai Qun, and Cao Xianjian came to the base from all over the country in order to "fly to the farther sea" and began a very difficult and challenging training.

　　On April 27, 2016, Zhang Chao, who was only 29 years old, fell in his last training to become a carrier-based pilot.

However, Zhang Chao’s sacrifice did not shake the belief of this group of young pilots in the career of carrier-based aircraft. On the contrary, they faced difficulties with greater courage and expressed their desire to train the martyrs Zhang with higher intensity and higher level. Super tribute.

Soon, a group of carrier-based aircraft pilots, including Sun Baosong, turned into flight instructors, bravely shouldering the important task of training carrier-based aircraft flying talents.

　　"These instructors have firm beliefs and a strong sense of mission, and they have devoted a lot of effort to the students." said Li Ming, political commissar of the base.

Last winter, instructor Yang Yong and his trainees drove fighter planes for high-altitude training. When they reached an altitude of 10,000 meters, the fighter plane broke down suddenly.

For the safety of civil aviation aircraft, Yang Yong did not rashly descend.

At the juncture of life and death, the command tower immediately coordinated with the civil aviation department and commanded Yang Yong to descend the altitude urgently.

At that time, Yang Yong managed to endure his physical discomfort and worked closely with his comrades to successfully return to the field.

"Starting from scratch" breaks new ground

　　"That year, we became carrier-based flight instructors, but we faced a lot of difficulties at the time." Flight instructor Ding Yang said with emotion that there were no ready-made teaching plans at that time. A few pages of textbooks are full and thick.

　　In order to form a training system for carrier-based aircraft flight personnel as soon as possible, Sun Zhengxiong, the first batch of carrier-based fighter pilots, took the flight instructors to carefully explore and work overtime.

When compiling the flight manual, in order to ensure the accuracy and safety of the actions and data related to low-altitude valley flight courses, instructors such as Wang Yong, Ai Qun and other instructors marked bridges, telephone poles and other obstacles that may endanger the safety of low-altitude flight one by one. The flight over and over again accurately verifies each data, and finally a safe and scientific low-altitude route is formed.

Ding Yang, Cao Xianjian and other instructors "guest" the training staff, starting from the most basic training plan and gradually improving.

Instructors such as Zhu Zhiqiang, Luo Hu Lidan, and Yang Yong acted as the course leaders to tackle problems one by one... They used the "thickness" of the materials to establish the "height" of the training of carrier-based flight personnel.

　　Once, "quarrel" became a common method of communication for flight instructors.

"At that time, everyone was crossing the river by feeling the stones. At the beginning, no one knew what the standard was, and no one could persuade anyone." Li Ming, the political commissar of the base, said that every "quarrel" has only one result, which is to reach a consensus; and every time The formation of consensus is the solidification of another exploration result.

Relying on this true spirit, they have successively formulated various teaching materials such as the "J-15 Flight Training Outline", "J-15 Flight Manual", and "Trainer Flight Manual". A new path for the training of pilots of carrier-based aircraft with Chinese characteristics has laid the foundation.

　　The careers of carrier-based pilots are limited.

Sun Baosong believes that only by enabling student pilots to complete boarding flights as soon as possible, can the effectiveness of personnel training and use be greatly improved.

The best way is to recruit pilot students from high school graduates and enter the aviation university for direct training.

That year, the first batch of cadets of the Navy's growth class that the flight instructor was looking forward to arrived as scheduled.

In order to explore the way to train the trainees of the growing class on the ship, the instructors explore while training to maximize the potential of the trainees.

As the first batch of growth class students successfully landed on the ship, a path to train carrier-based pilots in batches in a "growth mode" was formed.

　　After repeated explorations, this group of flight instructors broke a new path for training carrier-based pilots with Chinese characteristics.

As a result, our navy has formed a dual-track carrier-based pilot training pattern in which the "modification mode" and the "growth mode" are parallel.

Break the "nanny" training model

　　In the autumn season, the atmosphere in the auditorium of a Naval Aviation University base was warm, and the aircraft carrier flight qualification award ceremony was held here.

The moment the pilot Chen Yafan subconsciously straightened his chest after receiving the qualification certification for the aircraft carrier landing.

　　"Don't be proud, the pilot is not equal to the combatant!" Chen Yafan's instructor Wang Yong said solemnly.

"Carrier-based pilots must establish a sense of actual combat at the beginning of flight training." Instructor Luo Hu Lidan said.

　　In a tactical training session, due to the impact of headwinds, a student pilot arrived at the specified point 2 minutes later than the scheduled time. As a result, he was severely criticized by Luo Hu Lidan.

The student aggrieved that the influence of wind is not within his control.

Luo Hulidan immediately pointed out that the information battlefield is changing rapidly, and if a fighter is delayed for 1 second, it may be devastated, let alone two minutes.

　　There will be no rehearsal for actual combat.

While adhering to the iron law of "precision, obedience, and zero tolerance" for carrier-based aircraft flight, the instructors break the "nanny-style" coaching training model, and temper the students' actual combat capabilities in various dangerous situations.

During a course training, a student piloted a fighter jet shortly after takeoff, and the fog on the sea became thicker and thicker.

In response, the instructor Sun Baosong immediately decided to change the training course and ordered the student pilot to "transfer to a complex weather training course."

　　Under the active actions of the carrier-based aircraft flight instructor group, low-altitude tactical maneuvers, ground assaults, and air combat confrontation-these actual combat subjects that were originally only carried out in combat troops have successively become the training content of flight students.

　(Our reporter Liu Xiaobing)