Legendary Captain

"Hey... are you here to watch a movie or to read a book? Isn't it bad for your eyes to look at things in such darkness?"

In the dimly lit cinema, Xu Xian curled up on the sofa, his gaze not on the screen, but on his phone screen. He was reading the seventh edition of the electronic SOP.

While on the bus, he asked a friend for an electronic copy of the new SOP, and took the opportunity to study it.

Xu Xian shifted his body to find a more comfortable position and mumbled, "I'll just watch for a little while, it'll be fine. Besides, I'm an adult now, my eyeballs are fully formed, I shouldn't actually become nearsighted."

Su Yalin craned her neck and secretly glanced at Xu Xian's phone: "You're really studying! Do you like flying that much?"

"Like it?" Xu Xian remained silent for a moment before finally uttering a quiet sentence: "Just trying to make a living. What if you lose your job if you don't work hard?"

"I asked you to come to my dad's company, but you wouldn't come..." Su Yalin wrinkled her nose and moved her upper body closer to Xu Xian.

Xu Xian held the phone in his left hand, extending his right index finger to press against Su Yalin's shoulder blade, preventing her from getting any closer. His eyes, even larger than Su Yalin's, conveyed a "keep away" message: "Men and women are different, mind your distance!"

Su Yalin: "I don't know if there's a difference between men and women between you and Sister Wen."

"Mind your own business!" Xu Xian said with a hint of anger, as Su Yalin had touched a raw nerve.

The "Sister Wen" that Su Yalin mentioned is Xu Xian's former fiancée, but due to certain reasons, they are now strangers.

Seeing that Xu Xian was really angry, Su Yalin wisely shut her mouth. After a while, she glanced at Xu Xian and saw that his expression had softened a bit before saying, "You really aren't going to my dad's company?"

Xu Xian put away his phone and looked Su Yalin in the eye sincerely: "Your dad's company is a law firm. What could I do there? Besides, didn't your dad tell you and your brother to keep your distance from me? Why humiliate yourself?"

Xu Xian understood clearly that when you're at the peak of your career, you'll have admirers everywhere; but when you're down on your luck, it's a miracle you haven't been kicked while you're down. Besides, his father, Xu Jingyang, wasn't exactly known for his ethical business practices; it was a miracle that the two of them weren't homeless.

Don't be fooled by how well Su Yalin is chatting and laughing with him now. In a few years, when their childhood bond fades, it's hard to say whether Su Yalin will still look at him with a second glance.

Poor Xu Xian, he hadn't even considered enjoying life in his youth, but now that he's grown up and just as he was getting ready for the extravagant lifestyle of a rich second-generation heir, the Xu family empire collapsed. Ironically, Xu Xian got nothing when the Xu family was at its peak, but now that it's fallen, he has to bear everything. He's truly an unlucky old man.

Xu Xian's words were a bit harsh in their reality, and Su Yalin lost interest in teasing him any further. She had booked a small VIP screening room, but Xu Xian had turned it into a study room—what a waste!

Xu Xian nestled in the sofa chair, engrossed in his studies once again, when suddenly his phone vibrated, and he looked up to see a new email notification.

Xu Xian straightened up instantly. Could it be that the exam results were out? But then he thought about it again. Only a few hours had passed. He didn't believe that Fei Biao and the others would be working overtime to grade papers and compile statistics.

"Hopefully it's another internal employee," Xu Xian muttered to himself. Airlines often offer discounts on various merchandise to encourage employee purchases, and many emails are promotional in nature.

Pulling down the notification bar revealed the email title, and Xu Xian immediately became suspicious: "Simulator training plan? What does this mean?"

Opening the email details revealed a simulator training plan table. Xu Xian zoomed in on the table and searched for a while before finally finding his simulator training plan.

Three days later, there will be a two-hour "Disembarkation Team Capability Assessment Check" at the Xiangyu Training Center!

Xu Xian was stunned. This was the first time he had ever heard of a fleet undergoing a capability assessment and inspection, especially a simulator test. Using simulators meant investing real money; did Star Travel really not value its money?

According to Xu Xian, before disembarking from the fleet, there is theoretical training, initial conversion simulator training, followed by an initial conversion simulator check, then twenty takeoffs and landings of local training plus check, and finally, they can disembark from the fleet.

Some companies can even postpone the training session. After completing the initial simulator modification check, the aircraft can leave the fleet. As long as the training session is completed before being promoted to first-level co-pilot, there will be no problem.

For various reasons, Xu Xian's knowledge was far superior to that of the new trainees. However, he had never heard of any company arranging an inspection before disembarking from the fleet, especially a simulator inspection. It was unheard of. Money shouldn't be used like this!

Generally, the disembarking crew only receives training, not inspection. Moreover, the training consists of only four hours of theoretical instruction to familiarize them with flight procedures, mainly check-in, pre-flight documentation, entry procedures, and some specific issues encountered in real flights.

Even if there's going to be an inspection, it should be a paper-based questionnaire; using a simulator for inspection is just too much.

Of course, Xu Xian wasn't a direct descendant of Xingyou Airlines. His flight school training, simulator training, and even local training were all completed at his own expense by another airline. This is why Xu Xian knew about other airlines.

As for why he didn't join that airline, one reason was that Xingfei Airlines was located in Tianning City, thousands of kilometers away. Xu Xian simply didn't have the money to settle down in Tianning anymore.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons; the other reasons are more complicated and cannot be explained in a short time.

Having completed all his training, he could have disembarked directly from Star Travel Airlines. Unexpectedly, this very first step ran into trouble.

He really couldn't understand it. Was Star Travel Airlines the most special one in the entire civil aviation industry?

To be honest, although Xu Xian didn't understand what this simulator inspection for the unloading team was all about, he was still confident in his skills. Even so, Xu Xian still wanted to get to the bottom of it.

It's already late and past working hours, so Xu Xian plans to talk about it tomorrow morning. He can't afford to mess with those little devils in the ground administration.

Xu Xian was engrossed in his studies and couldn't even concentrate on the manual anymore. He patiently watched a movie for a while. However, the melodramatic love stories and dramatic plots gave Xu Xian goosebumps; the clichéd storyline was not to his liking.

For some reason, Xu Xian suddenly remembered that the mess he had with Wen Jingshu was probably incredibly dramatic, even more exciting than a movie.

The next morning, Xu Xian and others didn't call Fei Biao until after 9 a.m., when they were supposed to be at work. Although Xu Xian was now in the cadet team, the cadet team couldn't handle simulator matters; those were all Fei Biao's responsibility.

However, the Flight Marks department was a large department. The Flight Marks office was three times larger than the cadet team office, and Xu Xian didn't know who to contact for a moment.

Xu Xian first found the training supervisor of Flight Mark, and then, following the supervisor's instructions, found the staff member in charge of the simulator. Upon inquiry, he learned that the inspection of this haphazard simulator was actually arranged by Flight Mark directly from the flight squadron.

It's incredibly bizarre!