Return to 2000: Captain of the Great Powers

Chapter 370 Something Happened!
"The high-altitude weather map for me to see." Xu Cang has already adjusted the back of the chair to the lowest position, and it is quite comfortable to go up.

In terms of physical experience, the driver's seat is indeed more comfortable than the passenger's seat, with a wider adjustment range and better cushions on the back of the seat.Moreover, on the way to the back, the plane bumps occasionally, just like a baby's cradle, and it is easy to fall asleep.

In fact, pilots are not allowed to sleep on duty.But, to be honest, this kind of thing is just talking, and it is unreasonable in the first place.

During the cruise, there was nothing to do, the two of them stared at each other, and their energy was almost exhausted. When they approached, the workload increased and they began to get tired.

When you get tired, what happens? Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

Therefore, the reasonable allocation of rest time between pilots is what really needs to be taken into consideration, rather than just a matter of not allowing sleep on duty.

Of course, in actual flight, the people in the cockpit will take turns to rest, especially during the morning shift or evening shift, otherwise they really can't stand it.

Xu Cang was looking at the clear sky, and there was a captain next to him, so there was nothing to worry about.However, Xu Cang was more cautious. Before resting, he looked at the high-altitude weather map to see if there was any dangerous weather.

The high-altitude weather map is included in the release data, and in this era, paper is still used.The captain rummaged through the file bag for a while, took out one and handed it to Xu Cang: "Here it is."

Xu Cang yawned and took it over: "How much have you flown this month?"

"It's more than 60, and I'm [-] after flying today." The captain smiled.

"So many? Is this No. 20?" Xu Cang said, "Did you just finish 36?"

The captain nodded: "Just finished the rest, this is the first flight."

"Then if you fly like this, you'll be ninety this month."

"I guess it's going to be full." The captain rubbed his hands: "When I was in Muhua before, I flew more than 50 flights a month, and at most it was only [-] at a time. You can only make money if you come here."

Xu Cang looked at the high-altitude weather map: "You are really hardworking. I think it is best to fly forty in a month. But there is no way, I have to save experience time."

Xu Cang lacked nothing but time to experience.This is not the same as landing, the landing is very fast.

For example, if you miss the landing, you will fly for a week with the help of instructor Mo Shangyun, and you will fly short sections every day, with four to five 10 minutes of air time in each section.Four landings a day are less, and six landings a day are more, and the number is rising steadily.

But the elapsed time was divided from one minute to one minute, and there was no trickery, which caused Xu Cang a headache.

After all, Xu Cang is still lazy.

"Mr. Xu, how far is the transfer captain?"

"Eight hundred, right? I don't know, I'll go to Feibiao to ask about it." Xu Cang wiped his face: "Something always interrupts me, but it's okay to land, but I can't go up after time passes."

In fact, this is already considered good.Since I have a flight commissioner's license from the International Civil Aviation Organization, even if I encounter some special circumstances, the relevant agencies will not rush to inquire.Otherwise, in the past, whenever something happened, whether it was caused by Xu Cang or not, the flight would be grounded for half a month to understand the situation, and if there was something unclear in it, the grounding time would be even longer.

How could Xu Cang's experience time be accumulated for such a three-day grounding?

This was a period of time before Xu Cang, when he asked the planning room to arrange a big class for him every day, if he flew normally again, it is estimated that there is still a thousand hours left.

"Eight hundred is not much, and the flight will definitely be completed in one year." The captain smiled and said, "At that time, after completing the procedures, it will be completed within one and a half years."

This is not a compliment. With Xu Cang's ability, the only thing that hinders him from becoming a captain is time, and other aspects of ability assessment have no effect.It is a long process to become the captain of the flight. Even if you pass all of them at one time, it will take half a year. There is no way around this.

Some are slow, and some are stuck at the level of the transit captain for two or three years.

In addition, many other companies participated in the transfer captain link, which made it even more difficult.

However, there is no difference on Xu Cang's side.

Just before, Xu Cang repaired nearly one-third of the bureau's appointed representatives in the southwest region by himself.In the eyes of these people, Xu Cang is a big evil star, how dare he not let Xu Cang pass?If Xu Cang was hanged up, and Xu Cang said "I'll check you instead", it would really be a bolt from the blue.

For other pilots, accumulating experience time is the easiest, but getting to Xu Cang's side is the hardest.

Xu Cang felt in his heart that it was impossible to change to captain in a year and a half.

"I hope." Xu Cang returned the high-altitude weather map to the captain: "There is a section of high-altitude rapids above Xianchi, just pay attention to it, there may be bumps, just look at it, and I will squint for a while."

The high-altitude jet stream is still different from the clear-air turbulence zone.The main reason is that when entering the high-altitude jet stream zone, the surrounding airflow velocity will have extremely obvious changes, and it is quite unstable.

Changes in the status of the plane are most likely to occur at the two points of entry and exit, so Xu Cang specially reminded it.

However, these things are not uncommon for the captain who has been flying for so many years, so Xu Cang just said something and didn't keep looking at it.

During these two days in Hanjing, Xu Cang was physically and mentally exhausted.After returning home, I have to deal with the acquisition of Asiana Airlines and Xia Shuyue's learning to fly. In addition, Lian Shanli's affairs need to be dealt with as soon as possible. She can't last two days without eating or drinking.

Xu Cang felt dizzy at the thought of so many things to come.He was not a hardworking person in the first place, but now he really couldn't take a day off.

The captain took over the high-altitude weather map: "You take a rest, I'll watch it."

Xu Cang lay back and stretched, his eyes were closed.However, Xu Cang was not that tired yet, he closed his eyes and his consciousness was still active.After trying it for a while, the sleepiness subsided by squinting his eyes, which made Xu Cang a little annoyed.

Now Xu Cang really sighed that he was very cheap, he didn't lie down just now, his mind was dizzy, and he became more energetic when he lay down.

After waiting for a while, there was still no obvious sleepiness, Xu Cang slapped his face and rubbed his face: "Is the simulator at the company still working?"

"It's easy to use." The captain is actually fine, Xu Cang asked, and the answer came up: "I have flown Muhua's own simulator before, but I don't think it can compare to this."

"Of course, this is a modification of a real plane."

Xu Cang built a small simulator training center next to the company base, sharing the license of Muhua Aviation Simulator Training Center.Duan Lang has always been able to reassure Xu Cang in terms of construction progress. Not long ago, the simulator training center has been put into operation.

Among them, the simulator modified from the main body of the 1566 aircraft is one of them, and the other one is dedicated to flying the static model, that is, the cabin of the simulator does not move, and is mainly used for initial modification.

In fact, the simulator modified by 1566 can also fly the static model, but there are only two simulators in the center. It is too wasteful for such a good simulator to fly the static model.Xu Cang bought another simulator dedicated to flying static models from elsewhere at a very low price.

At present, there are not many pilot students in Spring Airlines, and there is not much demand for their own training.

However, things in the future must be prepared in advance.After running the simulator center for a period of time in the future, if the results are good, Xu Cang plans to buy a few more simulators, and at the same time apply to the Bureau for a separate simulator training center license.

Now it is convenient to share the license with Muhua Aviation, but as a nominal branch, the number of simulators is limited to three. If it really wants to develop, the restriction of this number is too obvious.

Fortunately, the application for the license of the simulator training center is far less difficult than the application for the license of the aviation school. This time, he mentioned the license application of Chen Huaxin's helicopter company to Director Wu Yue. Too greedy.

The small simulator center was run internally for a period of time, and then opened to other companies in small batches.The circle of pilots is very small, and after flying with other companies a few times, they basically have a reputation.

Now the pilot is not as delicate as the future, and the hardware requirements of the simulator are not high.Xu Cang is still confident that he can spread his high-quality training environment reputation to the domestic civil aviation circle.

"Except for the huge initial investment in the simulator center, there is basically no investment in the future. The big one should be the electricity bill." The captain said: "Then this kind of large electricity consumer can apply for preferential policies for electricity consumption from the local government."

"Is there a preferential policy for electricity use?" Speaking of this, Xu Cang suddenly became energetic.

"Yes." The captain nodded emphatically: "I am a native of Jianchuan. Although there are no plains here, there are abundant hydropower resources and sufficient hydroelectric power generation. In addition, the wind resources here are also very good. Just us Go to Jianchuan and land. Looking to the east, there are several big hills, all of which are windmills for wind power generation. There are many things that are lacking here, but there is no shortage of electricity. If you don’t use it, it will be wasted later. Besides, what do you do? Well, it’s also paying taxes to the government, not earning their electricity discounts in vain.”

Xu Cang nodded thoughtfully, he really hadn't thought of this.

After the simulator training center is completed, apart from the basic maintenance costs and its own resident technical staff, management staff and some miscellaneous staff wages, the largest remaining expenditure is indeed the electricity bill.

Moreover, the power consumption of the simulator is not small, especially when moving the model, it is necessary to drive the hydraulic device to make the simulator cabin produce corresponding state changes to achieve a real flight simulation.

Nowadays, Spring and Summer Airlines is basically the largest enterprise in Erhai City.As a large taxpayer, it seems that it is not too much to get some discounts on electricity consumption.

"Your suggestion is good, I'll ask later." Xu Cang clasped his hands behind his head, and began to think about things in his mind.

The captain was quite happy to see that Xu Cang recognized his opinion.Seeing that Xu Cang was thinking about something, he also turned his gaze back and used it all to monitor the plane.

However, as soon as his eyes came back, he noticed that the upper left corner of the navigation page was originally a left wind of more than [-] knots. In just a few seconds, it circled and directly turned into a head wind.

In the air, it is normal for the wind direction and speed to vary greatly.The captain noticed the change in wind direction, but didn't react for a while.

"No, it's over Xianchi now!" The captain was taken aback: "Entered the high-altitude rapids?"

Just now Xu Cang mentioned the matter of the high-altitude jet stream to him, but according to the high-altitude weather map, it will only enter the high-altitude jet stream more than 60 nautical miles ahead, how can it be so early?

Of course, it doesn't matter whether you enter the high-altitude jet stream or not. Paying attention to the change of airspeed when the wind direction changes is something that should be seriously considered.

When the wind direction turned to headwind, the captain first thought of the increase in airspeed, which was basically an instinctive reaction of an experienced pilot.Therefore, after noticing the change in wind direction, the captain's right hand was already on the throttle lever.

In normal commercial flights, unless there are special circumstances, the autopilot must be kept on.Therefore, if there is a situation beyond the autopilot correction, the pilot must override the throttle and make corrections to the aircraft in advance.

Compared with Airbus's auto-throttle, Boeing's auto-throttle is like mentally handicapped. Its response is very slow, and the response to emergencies is even worse. Only the pilot can intervene in it.

When yes, the aircraft is connected to the vertical navigation and horizontal navigation, and the aircraft operates in the FMA mode of the vertical navigation track.The Mach number at which the aircraft flies is .77 at the economical speed calculated by the FMC.

The captain was still somewhat conscious. When he put his right hand on the throttle stick, he let out a groan, and raised his right hand again, planning to press the speed button and insert the switch to reduce the speed of the plane. His preferred speed is about Around .75.

The so-called speed insertion switch allows the pilot to manually intervene in the speed of the aircraft while keeping the vertical navigation switched on.In addition to the speed insertion switch, there is also an altitude insertion or altitude intervention switch, which can remove all altitude restrictions below the set altitude at one time, and is still used more in daily flights.

However, the captain's right hand finger has not touched the speed to insert the switch, and the original precise Mach number of .772 is like riding a rocket, all the way up.

The captain expected that the speed of the plane would go up, and the crosswind would turn into the headwind. This was predictable.However, what he didn't expect was that the speed increased so fast. In this moment, the speed has already rushed to .80, almost touching the red and black speed zone.

The captain's body hairs stood on end, and almost without thinking, he slapped the accelerator with his right hand, then disconnected the autopilot, and slammed the plane around.

Close the throttle, and then hold the steering column. This is an extremely effective way to slow down.The plane's speed stopped at Mach .80 and never went up.

Originally, Xu Cang only took a nap while thinking about the simulator training center.He didn't even look at the airspeed indicator, but Xu Cang was startled by the captain's slap on the throttle. He opened his eyes suddenly, and saw the Mach number of .80 close to the red and black speed band.

However, Xu Cang obviously still didn't understand the situation. He was still thinking about the center of the simulator a moment ago, and he was a little dazed when he was shocked.

However, his reaction was still very fast, and he immediately realized that the captain was recovering from the stall.

After realizing this, Xu Cang first recalled the action of the captain tapping the throttle, and immediately realized that something serious happened.

But just when Xu Cang was about to raise his left hand and push the accelerator, the alarm sounded that the autopilot was disconnected, and then in Xu Cang's wide-eyed eyes, the captain suddenly took the stick, and the plane stopped at .80 for a while, and no longer up.

This seemed to perfectly solve the speeding problem, but Xu Cang suddenly saw from the TCAS display that there was another plane a thousand feet below them.

Xu Cang's heart beat violently, and he slapped the accelerator with his left hand, increasing the speed to more than 80.

The captain's stress reaction to overspeed was a bit strong. After disengaging the autopilot and holding the stick to correct the speed, he suddenly realized that his action seemed a little rough, and the altitude of the aircraft exceeded nearly [-] feet.

This time the deviation was already a bit big, and then, like a conditioned reflex, he pushed the stick roughly, trying to get the plane back to its original altitude.

This movement was more violent than the one with the pole just now, Xu Cang could even feel his body had left the seat slightly, if the belt was not fixed, he would fly up.

"You can't fly like this!"

Just as Xu Cang put his right hand on the steering wheel, he heard a violent crash coming from the direction of the cabin, followed by howls one after another.

Xu Cang's face turned pale: "Something happened."

Before Xu Cang recovered from some terrifying guesses about the cabin, he suddenly heard a cold electronic voice without emotion: "Climb!"

"Not good!" Xu Cang thumped, it was the TCAS alarm.

(End of this chapter)