Fen Fei, writing the "Chinese answer" of Haitian forging wings ——From the
group of carrier-based aircraft flight instructors in a certain base of Naval Aviation University to see the road of independent training of talents
In the Bohai Sea in late autumn, the Liaoning ship sailed forward through the waves.
When the carrier-based aircraft enters the approach course, the "dancer on the tip of the knife" has to complete hundreds of actions in just tens of seconds.
The four blocking ropes span the wide deck, like "tops" waiting to be boarded.
Dare to be the first in the world and dare to gnaw hard bones. After thousands of explorations and practices, the Chinese Navy's carrier-based aircraft flight instructors worked together to write a "Chinese answer" for the training of carrier-based aircraft flight talents——
Life and death depend on each other and pursue excellence
"Tie the same climbing rope, even if you pull, push, or even lift, you must climb the peak together."
"With a'bang' in my ear, a huge air current poured in instantly, pushing me hard on the seat, and the plane trembling violently..."
At that moment, it was the first time flight instructor Liang Libin encountered a special situation, and it was inevitable to be nervous.
"But I must calm down quickly. There are still students in the cabin. At this time, he will panic even more if I panic..."
On that day, Liang Libin was leading the student Qu Kun to conduct low-altitude flight training in the valley.
After a turn, a flock of birds suddenly appeared above the fighter plane.
They urgently adjusted the attitude of the plane to avoid it, and a lonely bird hit the fighter head-on.
With a "bang", the cockpit cover was knocked out of a huge gap, and nearly 80% of the area was damaged.
Liang Libin continuously reported loudly to the tower commander.
However, the sound of the airflow overwhelmed the sound of the conversation, and he could only receive the commander's instructions through the gestures of the wingman pilot.
"Qu Kun and I tried to bend forward to minimize the airflow resistance..." A series of operations were carried out in one go with the stick, the throttle, and the slowing down.
At this time, the height is only 160 meters, the residential area is under the wing, and the surrounding is high and low peaks.
The tower command was decisive, the wingman closely followed, and the students cooperated tacitly. While maintaining the state of the aircraft, Liang Libin continued to observe outwards, completing nearly a hundred zero-error maneuvers, and finally successfully landed.
"At the time, I was very worried that Qu Kun could not help but eject. If he did, I would be ejected..." Looking back at that time, Liang Libin was most pleased that the trust of life entrusted to the student and the instructor.
"The standards for driving a carrier-based aircraft are extremely stringent. It can be said to be the'Mount Everest' of the flying industry. We and our students are tied to the same climbing rope, and even if we pull, push, or even lift, we must climb over that seat together. Gao Feng." Sun Baosong, a commander of a Naval Aviation University base, said with deep feeling, "For the sake of the aircraft carrier business, we cannot easily give up anyone."
Cultivating carrier-based aircraft pilots is a "glorious thorny road": new systems, new fields, new battlefields... In front of flight instructors, there are too many "blanks" to fill in and too many "roads". "Go.
Only by stepping on the difficulties, putting life and death away, working hard and being willing to be a ladder, can we lift up the ladder of the "dancer on the blade" who dreams of the sea and the sky.
At midnight, Ai Qun, a flying instructor who claimed to have mastered the "quick fall asleep method", had insomnia.
As soon as he closed his eyes, a student hesitated to put and fuel the throttle when he fell into the "black zone", like a thorn "piercing" Ai Qun's mind.
Due to a waist injury, this student's modification progress lags behind the same batch of students, and his understanding of shipboard flight is also lacking.
Ai Qun specially drew a road map for his modification, so that his growth gradually entered the "fast lane".
But this time, he encountered a new problem.
Ai Qun sat up abruptly and decided to go to him and ask him why.
"The fighter has a large angle of attack, so I always want to hold the pole position and dare not push it out." After finding the source of the problem, Ai Qun ran back to the dormitory and took out the airplane model, simulated and explained, until the student nodded seriously. Ai Qun was relieved with a sigh of relief.
Affected by the old instructors, the young flight instructor Zhang Yuliang often stayed up late to watch the students' flight videos, analyze the flight curve, and drag them to one-on-one tutoring after the flight, repeating each flight.
Zhang Yuliang can be seen commenting on the students in the comment room, dormitory, restaurant, exit car...
"I'd rather get tired yourself than miss a key point." This is a professional habit that Zhang Yuliang has gradually developed after becoming a flight instructor.
Before the new batch of pilots landed on the "big test", Zhang Yuliang set up the class on the beach and gave everyone a unique "ship landing class."
He started from the knowledge of aircraft carriers, to the analysis of the marine environment, and then to his own ship landing story... more like a friend chatting.
The lecture was about to end, and Zhang Yuliang suddenly asked: "Why did you successfully fly on the aircraft carrier?" Some people said that it was to live up to the motherland's trust, while others said that it was for the dream of flying on the sea.
"The food is better on the aircraft carrier. The small goal should be to fly to the aircraft carrier to eat a meal."
After listening to Zhang Yuliang's "standard answer", the students were taken aback for a moment, and then the young laughter resounded across the beach.
Scientific, efficient, precise and refined
"Digitalization is not only a change of'a pen, a stack of paper', but also a futuristic interpretation of the iron law of shipborne flight"
Under the "Flying Shark" logo on the top of the flight student dormitory, there are 7 big golden characters-"Accuracy, Obedience, Zero Tolerance", known as the iron law of shipborne flight.
The flight instructor has a metaphor: "Every action during the landing of a carrier-based aircraft is like a domino, interlocking and closely related."
The spacing of each domino is measured by flight instructors after countless tests.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, the setting sun will “stuck” on the island opposite the base on time. Under the beautiful scenery of the sunset, the roar of the aircraft gradually stopped, and the commentary room was a hot scene.
With the blessing of technology, they have integrated digital training and training concepts into flight.
"It's like a pair of'invisible wings', helping the'Flying Shark' to soar more scientifically, accurately and efficiently." Sun Baosong said.
With the high-speed flying carrier-based aircraft and the navigating aircraft carrier, coupled with the complex and changeable sea conditions and air currents, it is not easy to achieve the perfect combination between the ship and the aircraft.
Behind every successful "rendezvous" between their driving "Flying Shark" and the blocking line, there is strong support from a huge data stream.
Centering, conformal, lanyards...the sea and the aircraft carrier’s sights shuttled in front of the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft at high speed. With a strong visual impact, the carrier-based aircraft steadily stopped on the deck of the aircraft carrier.
This thrilling scene took place on a tens of inches of electronic screen.
Next to the simulation training device, Zhang Yuehong, the director of the simulation training center at the time, couldn't help but seep sweat in his palms.
Over the years, in order to allow real-time and accurate transmission of flight simulation data, his eyes have been switching back and forth between image and data, looking for "upgrade points" for the real-time comment system developed.
Walking into the office of Zhang Ming, the director of the assessment office, the reporter saw "different" at a glance: there were two screens on his computer desk, both horizontally and vertically.
The vertical screen is full of information and data being simulated and deduced; on the horizontal screen, more than 10 data-related topics are arranged.
Looking closer, the "completion time limit" of each topic is accurate to a certain day.
However, only a year ago, this system was still on paper.
Faced with the brand-new issue of improving flight data processing capabilities, most officers and soldiers have no idea: "We have no equipment and no talents, what kind of results can we make?"
"If you don't want to break through, you will always be trapped in the well." Tu Shuai, a young engineer, decided to knock on the door of technological innovation.
They took full advantage of the unique advantages of “grounding gas”, made plans, compiled algorithms, and wrote codes. After repeated verifications, they finally successfully developed a real-time flight commentary system.
Using this system, the flight video processing speed has been increased by 10 times.
At the left end of the first arresting line on the deck of the aircraft carrier is the LSO (Carrier Aircraft Commander on Board) workstation.
Looking up at the aircraft landing route, here is the best location.
After each flight, the students will get a score.
This score is not scored by LSO based on impressions, but based on the scores given by each student flying.
Just like a diving athlete, every action has its own standards and scores, from preparing to jump to entering the water.
Flight instructor Luo Hu Lidan still remembered that when they first served as LSO, they could only use visual observation and memory to trace, and use pen and paper to record the training of students.
The densely packed data not only leads to a long cycle of generating results, but also prone to deviation, which is not conducive to timely correction of pilots during training.
To this end, they mapped thousands of data into flight graphs, and analyzed the fit points of the aircraft attitude and images through the crests and troughs on the graphs. Finally, they gathered the huge data stream in each of the current LSO workstations. On the tablet computer in the hands of the instructor, a digital command and scoring system was born.
"Digitalization is not only a change in'a pen, a stack of paper', but also a futuristic interpretation of the iron law of shipborne flight." Flight instructor Wang Yong told reporters that they have also established a full-time and full-dimensional training quality monitoring system , Set up a database to conduct objective evaluations throughout the entire time period, accurately evaluate each movement and each approach of the student pilots, better quantify the flight ability, and quickly check for missing vacancies.
Under the guardianship of the "invisible wings", groups of young "Flying Shark" flying talents set sail from here and fly into the distance.
Passing on from generation to generation
"It fits people's call for the spirit of the times, and it will resonate with people."
In the southeast corner of the Kongqin Canteen, there is a small vegetable garden.
When there is no flying mission, the flight instructor Cao Xianjian likes to plan soil and grow vegetables, and he carefully calculates when to water, fertilize, and trim.
There was a roar in his ears, and he felt that the flight instructor was like a peasant working in the blue sky, "facing the instrument with his head above the sky", and he was broken for "a grass and a tree".
In the eyes of young pilots, Cao Xianjian is like a statue of a walking hero when he puts on his flying suit.
On April 6, 2016, Cao Xianjian encountered a major danger during his flight training.
Special handling regulations: Pilots can parachute immediately.
At the critical juncture, Cao Xianjian tried his best to keep the fighter plane until the last two seconds before the crash, he pulled the ejection handle on the seat.
Because of the insufficient height, the parachute was not fully opened, and he fell heavily to the sea, causing multiple burst fractures in the thoracic, lumbar, and tail vertebrae...
Twenty-one days later, Zhang Chao drove the fighter plane to simulate a land-based landing flight, and the plane had a sudden telex failure.
Also in order to save the fighter, Zhang Chao heroically sacrificed... the haze enveloped the career of carrier-based aircraft flying.
Hearing the news of the sacrifice of his comrades, Cao Xianjian, who was lying on the hospital bed, burst into tears.
Go around, go around!
Soon after the first operation, the wound had not healed completely. Cao Xianjian, who used 6 steel nails to fix the fractured lumbar spine, began arduous recovery training on the hospital bed.
But the doctor's initial diagnosis was cruel: the fall was so severe, according to their experience, it was impossible to go around.
He Qing, an expert at the People's Liberation Army General Hospital, still remembers Cao Xianjian's eyes at that time, "When communicating, he said that no matter what method is adopted, it is best to ensure that he can continue to fly after the operation."
Carrier fighter pilots need to carry a load of at least 4G to land on the ship, and lumbar support is particularly important.
The expert team specially formulated surgery and rehabilitation programs for this purpose, but to succeed, Cao Xianjian needs to endure unimaginable pain.
Before the second operation, he made another request that surprised the doctor: "Do not use anesthetics for the operation!"
"After using anesthetics in the last operation, it seemed to have a little impact on my ability to respond."
"You don't need anesthetics. You can unscrew 1 steel nail from your lumbar spine, but unscrewing 6 nails is too risky, and no one can stand it!"
In the end, Cao Xianjian agreed to use anesthetics under the premise that the hospital repeatedly considered the dosage of anesthetics and minimized the effects of anesthetics.
That day, lying on the anesthesia table, Cao Xianjian dreamed that he was flying again. Between the blue sky and the blue sea, the mighty aircraft carrier formation had a panoramic view...
At the time of the go-around, when he drove the J-15 fighter to accurately hook the blocking wire, the carrier-based aircraft landing commander and "carrier fighter hero test pilot" Deming Meng did not hesitate to score high.
"The hero's return to Haitian is not just a news event." Sun Baosong said, "It fits people's call for the spirit of the times, and only then can people resonate."
In Zhang Chao's computer, there is a teaching method for the actual use of weapons on the J-15 fighter, with only more than 3,000 words.
This was sorted out by taking advantage of his rest time before he sacrificed his experience in actual use of weapons.
After Zhang Chao sacrificed his life, everyone used his more than 200 video materials and more than 20,000 words of experience to supplement and improve the teaching method.
"In the future, every young pilot who learns to use the weapons of the J-15 fighter will remember Zhang Chao's name." Sun Baosong said.
When the torch is there, there is light.
Those who received the "torch" from Zhang Chao were also a group of younger student pilots on carrier aircraft.
The room where Zhang Chao once lived is now living in a pilot pilot born in 1996, who is 10 years younger than Zhang Chao.
In the next room, Cao Xianjian was preparing a lesson plan for them.
Some powers are destined to be outside of teaching and classrooms.
From land-based to ship-based, from single aircraft to formation, from offshore to open sea, from modification and training to parallel growth with the "dual track", the carrier-based aircraft flight talent team is passing the "torch" in an accelerated manner.
Although the front is full of thorns, their hearts are filled with determination and confidence.
Qian Xiaohu Wei Bing Sun Fei