Legendary Captain

Xu Xian's voice was like a raging fire, echoing and roaring in the cramped simulator cabin, so loud that it almost ruptured the eardrums of Instructor He Changyuan behind him.

This loud shout caused the student's movements to pause slightly. Xu Xian took the opportunity to reach out with his left hand, rip off the student's right hand, and hold it down firmly.

"What are you doing? What are you doing?" Xu Xian's face was darker than ever before. He kept questioning, "Is this something you can touch? Did the cockpit altitude warning go off? Did it go off? Huh!?"

Xu Xian's last shout seemed to gather all his previous anger. The sound was so loud that it startled not only the students on the other side, but also Instructor He Changyuan on the control panel behind him.

"Brother...aren't we on an emergency descent?" the trainee asked, bewildered. "Doesn't an emergency descent involve releasing oxygen for the passengers?"

"I..." Xu Xian took a deep breath, suppressing the urge to kill: "Did I say emergency descent? Rapid descent, rapid descent, don't you understand or can't you hear me?"

"Emergency descent... rapid descent... is there a difference?" the student asked, somewhat confused.

Xu Xian felt his head was spinning. Perhaps the concept of rapid descent was still too profound for the trainees, and they still couldn't distinguish between emergency descent and rapid descent.

Xu Xian looked up at the cockpit altimeter. The cockpit altitude had reached 8,000 feet, but the actual altitude of the aircraft was still over 21,000 feet. At the current rate of ascent and descent, the cockpit altitude would reach 10,000 feet in less than two minutes. And at their current rate of descent, it would be difficult to descend to 10,000 feet within two minutes.

The current minimum safe altitude for the route is 11300 feet. If we fly a little further and pass Zhaotong, we can continue to descend to a safe altitude of 2400 meters, which will be below 10,000 feet.

"Have you ever done an emergency descent? I mean, during the initial modifications!" Xu Xian suddenly asked.

The student paused for a moment: "I haven't learned about the initial modifications yet, but I've learned the programming from the book..."

"Just now, when there was no response from air traffic control, we turned right by thirty degrees, veered six nautical miles to the right. I didn't see that in the book?" Xu Xian asked again.

The student said somewhat embarrassedly, "Maybe I didn't look carefully enough!"

"What is the safe altitude for the next flight path, and when can we continue descending?" Xu Xian asked again.

Student: "Hey bro, can't we take a look at an aerial view?"

Xu Xian gave the trainees a deep look, then suddenly spoke into the headset microphone: "Star Travel Training Machine, our captain is incapacitated, requesting immediate landing!"

"What?"

"What?"

This not only shocked the students involved, but also instructor He Changyuan.

"Brother... I'm not disabled!" the student insisted.

Xu Xian slowly fixed his gaze on the student, and in an extremely firm and unquestionable voice, declared definitively: "No, you are incapacitated!"

Instructor He Changyuan immediately paused the simulator, tapped behind Xu Xian's seat, and gestured for Xu Xian to turn around.

Following He Changyuan's instructions, Xu Xian pulled his chair back, turned around, and faced Instructor He: "Instructor, is there a problem?"

"Any other questions?" He Changyuan almost pointed at the trainee's forehead. "Does he look like he's disabled? He's perfectly fine, isn't he?"

Xu Xian said in a deep voice, "Instructor, the SOP's definition of incapacity is not as narrow as physical incapacity. If another pilot is unable to respond correctly to certain procedures or operations, and this continues after two attempts, then it can be considered incapacity!"

"Is there such a thing?" Instructor He Changyuan's concept of pilot disability was still limited to early physiological disability, such as pilot coma.

Nowadays, the concept of pilot disability has expanded considerably compared to previous years; it's just that some veteran instructors are not yet accustomed to changing their ingrained notions.

Of course, writing it in the SOP is one thing, and actually doing it is another. However, Xu Xian isn't discussing how to actually do it, but rather the SOP!

He Changyuan was a little unsure and looked at the other students, but all he got in return was a somewhat dazed look in their eyes.

"Really?" He Changyuan asked doubtfully.

"SOP, 6.17.2 Pilot Incapacity Assessment, now ready for verification!" Xu Xian once again demonstrated his almost mechanical memory ability.

"6 what?" Teacher He Changyuan, being older, had no concept of an answer index and completely failed to grasp Xu Xian's point.

Xu Xian glanced at the time discreetly, then licked his lips, which had lost some color. He was truly exhausted! So, he had to resort to some clever tricks to ease his mind a little.

Since Instructor He Changyuan didn't know, he felt it was necessary to find out the cause of the pilot's incapacitation, and if possible, to explain it to the instructor in detail.

"Forget it, forget it, if you want to fly alone, then fly alone." Instructor He glanced at the time and immediately gave up on arguing with Xu Xian. Judging from Xu Xian's confident demeanor, there must be something to it.

Instructor He Changyuan couldn't help but sigh inwardly. These trainees were going too far. They were preparing to release oxygen to the passengers before the depressurization was even started, as if they were afraid the passengers wouldn't know there was a problem with the aircraft's pressurization.

Slow decompression requires swift action. When Xu Xian asked the trainee to request a rapid descent, he deliberately didn't respond in order to delay the descent. It was unexpected that Xu Xian was so familiar with the procedures for handling this type of unresponsive control; for an average trainee to do this would be considered extremely excellent.

He just couldn't have imagined that the trainees who were cooperating with him couldn't even distinguish between a rapid descent and an emergency descent, and even dared to turn on the passenger oxygen without authorization, which seemed outrageous.

It's important to know that both the passenger oxygen switch and the drive switch have red covers. What does this signify? It signifies that extreme caution is required. Passenger oxygen is mostly generated by a chemical generator; once started, it cannot be stopped and is irreversible. Yet, in the hands of trainees, it can be manipulated as casually as a light switch.

However, even if things are outrageous, none are as outrageous as Xu Xian's handling of the situation.

Xu Xian finally realized that his main problem was no longer He Changyuan, but the person right next to him! As long as this incredible teammate was still by his side, who knew when he'd drop a bomb on him? He could survive once or twice, but what about the third time? To survive, even if it was a trainee playing the role of the captain, Xu Xian could still take him down!

Even the captain couldn't stop Xu Xian's strong will to survive.

Would this really make He Changyuan feel helpless? If Xu Xian thought that eliminating one threat would solve everything, he was sorely mistaken. Look at the time; there's only one last chance. This time, he'll target Xu Xian directly!