Legendary Captain

Lian Shanxue's accuracy was good, but his speed was a bit slow. In addition, Xu Xian's extended explanations took up most of the two-hour training time to prepare the entire cockpit.

If Xu Xian maintains his pace, the entire cockpit preparation should be completed in about ten minutes, provided that information is provided in a timely manner.

If the airport keeps delaying things like clearance and manifests, the time required could be anyone's guess.

The positions of the switches on the various panels in the cockpit are relatively easy to handle; the real challenge is the CDU!

In fact, Xu Xian had already demonstrated how to input location information when the navigation calibration was being performed earlier.

When calibrating aircraft navigation, the crew needs to input position information; otherwise, the aircraft cannot be calibrated. So how is position information input? This is what Xu Xian is going to teach Lian Shanxue.

"The aircraft's location information is displayed in latitude and longitude. Did you see a row of hollow boxes on the start page? That's where you input the location information." Xu Xian pressed the second page of the start page, which contained a page of location information. There was information on the left IRS, the right IRS, the left GPS, and the right GPS.

At this moment, Xu Xian pointed to the series of location information and said, "There are many ways to input location information, but the most common way is to select the location information from the left GPS, copy this location information, and paste it onto the first page of the start page. In this way, the aircraft can be calibrated."

After saying that, Xu Xian, as if to shut Lian Shanxue up, continued, "As for why we use GPS location information, I haven't learned that yet, so don't ask me! If you ask, I just don't know."

Lian Shanxue smiled, her eyes crinkling: "I know, I know! I won't ask!"

Xu Xian saw that Lian Shanxue was quite perceptive and nodded in satisfaction before turning to the route page.

"The departure airport and destination airport on the route page are easy to understand. However, the airports are filled in with four-letter codes, not three-letter codes!" Xu Xian reminded him.

Lian Shanxue snorted, "I'm not stupid. Aren't there four boxes above? That must be a four-digit code!"

"Huh? Oh! Right!" Xu Xian was a little embarrassed. On the route page, the airport names that needed to be entered all had four boxes, so the three-letter code was definitely wrong. He had been overthinking things.

"Here's a CO ROUTE, which means company route," Xu Xian said. "Normally, company routes are entered by combining the four letters of the departure and destination airports. If you find that this input is incorrect during the flight, add numbers after it, starting from the first one. There should be one that works within three."

"Wow, you know all this?" the instructor chuckled. "It's not in these books; only those who have flown the planes know this. You haven't been off the plane yet, have you?"

Xu Xian: "Instructor, I've only heard about this from others; I haven't actually tried it myself. This kind of situation must be rare, right?"

The instructor nodded: "That's right, such cases of adding numbers are indeed very rare. I remember when I was flying, our company only had two or three routes that required adding numbers, so the proportion is really small."

"Then, instructor... does this simulator contain our company's flight routes?" Lian Shanxue asked.

"I flew it once before, but it wasn't in that simulator," Xu Xian said.

A while ago, Xu Xian's disembarkation inspection was done at Xiangyu's place. At that time, when he entered the company's route code from Yunnan to Chengdu, it showed that the database was missing.

The instructor waved his hand: "Your company didn't give us the data for the company's flight path. You just need to connect the last point of the departure procedure with the first point of the arrival procedure."

"Oh, okay, then we won't worry about this company's routes," Xu Xian said. "The FLT NO here is the flight number. By the way, this flight number isn't the two-letter flight number that passengers see; it's a three-letter flight number. Don't get it wrong."

Airlines typically have a two-letter code and a three-letter code. The two-letter code is used for flight numbers and other purposes, while the three-letter code is used by airline staff and air traffic controllers.

When you look at an aircraft on air traffic control radar, it displays the three-letter flight number.

"Wait a minute, let me write this down!" Lian Shanxue was genuinely unaware of this and diligently took notes. "Alright, continue, continue!"

......

Office of the General Manager of the Flight Department, Xingyou Aviation.

"Did that secretary really tell you that?" Lin Bo, the general manager of the flight department, stood next to his desk, his fingers unconsciously drawing circles on the surface, his brows furrowed with doubt.

Lu Xinyu stood in front of Lin Bo, equally worried, and said, "Yes! The more I thought about it, the stranger it seemed. A secretary, for her to directly discuss promotions with a department head—that's way too much!"

"No, you can't think like that!" Lin Bo waved his hand and said, "The entire president's office was brought over from headquarters by the president. You can't look at the issue in isolation. This secretary's intentions must be Yang Ning's. Otherwise, she wouldn't dare to discuss anything inappropriate in front of you, even if she had ten lives. She's just a messenger!"

"So Yang Ning's meaning... isn't that the president's meaning?" Lu Xinyu naturally came to this conclusion.

Yang Ning is the administrative director of the president's office and the president's only confidant. Who in the entire company doesn't know that Yang Ning is the president's mouthpiece?

Lu Xinyu: "Where do you see a leader so openly expressing their likes and dislikes for subordinates? If this is really the president's intention, I'm actually a little worried about her saying this."

No matter which company you're in, leaders always hold back when they speak, usually using indirect methods, especially when it comes to sensitive topics like promotions.

When it came to Lu Xinyu's turn, the senior leader bluntly said, "I have high hopes for you." This unconventional and illogical behavior made Lu Xinyu uneasy.

Lin Bo was indeed a little confused; what kind of leader would act like this?

"Is it possible that the new president isn't too concerned about the power shift in the general manager of the flight department, so he doesn't feel the need to hide it?" Lin Bo said somewhat uncertainly.

This was the only reason he could think of, and considering the new president's identity, it made sense. It was just a minor departmental personnel change; there was no need to waste brain cells studying the art of leadership.

Lu Xinyu was somewhat skeptical: "The Flight Department is a core department, after all. Personnel changes in the head of a core department carry some weight, right? The president doesn't even care about this?"

Lin Bo was immediately annoyed. What could be the reason? Could it be that the secretary, seeing Lu Xinyu's handsome appearance, had fallen for him and secretly revealed the president's intentions to him?

Lin Bo glanced at Lu Xinyu discreetly and quickly dismissed the idea!