"Flying Shark" instructor


　　record a group of carrier-based aircraft flight instructors of a Naval Aviation University base

　　On the banks of the Bohai Bay in mid-December, fighter planes roared over a certain base of Naval Aviation University, and a certain carrier-based fighter training group was organizing flight training.

Young trainees of carrier-based aircraft piloted the J-15 fighter jets and landed precisely on the runway to the landing area on the simulated aircraft carrier deck.

The huge wings of the J-15 fighter jet swept over, curling up the strong air flow, and the tires grind out black marks in the landing area. After passing the fourth blocking rope, the "Flying Shark" rose into the air again and flew into the distance.

　　The head of the training regiment, Wang Yong, looked at the scene before him, and couldn't help but think of the scene where he learned to fly a carrier-based aircraft on this runway many years ago.

After rigorous training, he passed the qualification certification of aircraft carrier landing and followed the Liaoning ship to the open ocean.

Today, he has returned to this runway as a flight instructor, and together with many comrades in the regiment, he is responsible for "sending more excellent carrier-based pilots onto the aircraft carrier."

　　The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is called "the most dangerous 4.5 acres in the world". The pilots of carrier-based aircraft need to take off and land within a limited range and participate in battle, so they are also known as "dancers on the blade."

The establishment of the carrier-based fighter training group is precisely to train more qualified carrier-based aircraft pilots and "teach dancers to dance on the tip of a knife."

　　But in the hearts of flight instructors, "qualified" is far from enough. In Wang Yong's words, "carrier-based pilots must be the best."

They teach the staff how to take off and land on the aircraft carrier, the requirements are almost strict, the deviation of the landing position should not exceed 3 meters, preferably within 1 meter, "to be perfect."

　　"Because carrier-based aircraft are very difficult to fly. We pioneers have made a way out in order to let the current students avoid detours and train batches of'qualified talents' who can board ships and fight wars." Wang Yong said.

He was one of the earliest batch of carrier-based pilots in China. In his early years, he had no teaching materials, trainer aircraft, or teaching experience in the flight learning of carrier-based aircraft. product".

　　Nowadays, the teaching of carrier-based aircraft flight has a unified training outline and teaching materials, the control process is standardized, and the assessment standards for each item are detailed and complete.

The instructors have formed a complete set of ship-based concept training programs, and the training time of pilots has been greatly shortened.

　　Although longing for the "hot-blooded life" of expedition to the sea on the ship, after the formation of the carrier fighter training group, the pilot Wang Yong decided to join the instructor team and become a flight instructor.

"China's aircraft carrier business is developing rapidly, and our generation must shoulder the mission of training more carrier-based pilots." Wang Yong explained his choice in this way.

　　Flight instructor Ding Yang also came to the training team for the same reason and became the "pioneer" of carrier-based aircraft flight teaching.

Ding Yang remembered that when the training team was formed, there was no complete set of training materials.

The standard process is discussed and formulated by the instructors, and everyone’s experience is different. Everyone has repeated meetings and discussions to select the most reasonable plan.

　　At that time, "quarrels" were common occurrences, and the instructors were all true, and the use of a word and a punctuation mark in the textbook should be accurate.

After a training program is initially determined, the instructor is the first to experience it.

Each instructor in the team must first test the flight according to this, and then summarize the discussion after it is over, improve or change the plan according to each person's sense of experience, and then fly and change.

　　The flight instructor and LSO landing commander Luo Hu Lidan is one of this group of "real people."

The landing commander is an emerging profession for aircraft carriers. He is responsible for directing the successful landing of carrier-based aircraft on the flight deck. He is responsible for the double safety of the pilot and the carrier.

　　In order to make the command more efficient, Luo Hu Lidan tried to standardize and standardize the command language.

He collected the passwords of many colleagues to integrate and improve. He once weighed whether to say 4 words or 3 words for a password. "Because the landing time is only tens of seconds, the command must be precise and fast. Any delay of one second may be dangerous."

　　In more than a year, the instructor team has successively formulated various teaching materials such as the "J-15 Flight Training Outline", "J-15 Flight Manual", and "Trainer Flight Manual" to standardize the training process and establish a flight training plan negotiation and training program. Air-ground service exchange system mechanisms, research on training models, refined airspace management, and tower command model reforms have been carried out to tackle key and difficult tasks, which have effectively improved the effectiveness of training.

　　Due to the high difficulty and high risk factor of carrier-based aircraft, the iron law of "precise obedience and zero tolerance" shipboard flight is the core of the training team's "shipboard culture".

"Flying altitude is 300 meters or 300 meters, 301 meters and 299 meters are not acceptable. Landing on the aircraft carrier, one meter difference may cause an accident." Flight instructor Cao Xianjian said, in the team, most instructors have "obsessive-compulsive disorder". "When the assessment was organized, it was even more "comparable to the baht".

　　"We must have high standards and strict requirements." Ding Yang said, "because our goal is the ocean, in addition to being able to take off and land, we must be able to win." In his view, successful take off and landing on board is a carrier-based aircraft. The pilot’s entry basis, not the ultimate goal.

　　Before becoming an instructor, Ding Yang went to sea with the Liaoning ship many times to understand the complexity of maritime missions.

He shared his experience with the trainees and taught them to get rid of routines and be flexible in combat.

In one-on-one air combat training, Ding Yang used a simple oblique somersault and turning movements to get rid of the students and reverse the situation.

After the end, Ding Yang analyzed and explained to the trainees, “What you will fly in the future is not the Bohai Bay, but the far sea. You will face unknown storms and tasks, and you must adapt to various environments.”

　　Some of the trainees also have pilots from other units, flying a variety of aircraft types, and have rich experience in air combat.

In their spare time, the training team asked them to "teach class" for the whole team based on their strengths and good subjects, and the instructors would come and listen.

　　"In fact, this is a process of teaching and learning." Ding Yang said with a smile, "As an instructor is also'stressful'. The career of carrier-based aircraft flight has been developing, and the instructor must have a sense of urgency, teach while learning, and adapt to the diverse tasks of aircraft carriers. Demand for globalization."

　　This year, the "stressful" instructor team launched another charge for the night landing course.

During the preparation period, they taught during the day and self-trained at night.

Several flight instructors successfully passed the assessment and successfully obtained the night aircraft carrier qualification, which signified that they have since then possessed the ability to teach day and night full-time domains.

　　Since the formation of the training group, more and more young people have come here to grow into carrier-based aircraft pilots.

Ding Yang and his team comrades sometimes sighed, "Looking at them charging and fighting today is like seeing themselves back then."

　　But they do not regret it.

"When you feel the most sense of accomplishment as an instructor, you see your students surpass yourself and fight on the front line instead of yourself." Ding Yang said.

On the Liaoning ship, there is a wall of honor belonging to the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft, with photos of the pilots who have successfully landed the ship 50 and 100 times.

Sometimes Ding Yang would think, "If I was still on board, I would have posted it already."

But whenever he saw more and more pictures on that wall, he felt proud again, "all the students I sent up."

　　"A carrier-based pilot who is not a hot-blooded man, who doesn't want to fly farther to defend the country's sea and air safety, and fight against the strongest enemy." Wang Yong said, "but there are some things that have to be done by someone to send more." Flying Shark Warriors’ set sail is our unshirkable responsibility and mission."

　　China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Zheng Tianran Source: China Youth Daily