Li Rongxian had already left the open-air cafe. Even though he didn't care much about Xu Cang's feelings, looking at Xu Cang's gloomy face, he still felt that there was no need to take risks here. Anyway, he had already informed Li Rongcheng of the matter. The purpose of this trip had been achieved. What was the point of staying?
Xu Cang and Li Rongcheng sat opposite each other. After Li Rongxian left for a while, Li Rongcheng took out a paper agreement and said, "This is a formal employment agreement. Take a look at it. If there is no problem, we will sign the contract formally."
Xu Cang didn't belong to Boeing, so it was not his duty to participate in the flight test, so he had to sign a corresponding agreement. Even if Li Rongcheng didn't say it, Xu Cang was ready to sign a formal agreement to avoid any disputes later.
The agreement was a small stack of more than 30 pages. However, Xu Cang did not just glance over it hastily, but read it carefully word by word. If he came across something that seemed ambiguous, he would confirm it with Li Rongcheng.
After reading it for more than an hour, Xu Cang confirmed that there was no problem before signing it. There were two copies of the agreement, one for Xu Cang and one for Li Rongcheng.
"It's settled now. I'll let you know when the specific date is announced." Li Rongcheng put away the agreement. "There are still more than two months left. Do you want to go to Hong Kong or come back to Boeing headquarters with me?"
"What?"
"Of course it's training. There are some differences between the 777 and the 737. You should get used to it by flying the simulator. There are very few 777 simulators now. The only one in your country is in Hong Kong. Or you can come back to Boeing headquarters with me. If you want to try the real plane, you have to go to Seattle. It depends on your willingness." Li Rongcheng said, "However, the headquarters has been busy relocating recently. If you go there, it may be a bit troublesome."
Boeing's headquarters was originally in Seattle, not far from the test flight base, which was very convenient. But I don't know what Boeing is thinking. Recently, it has started to move its headquarters to Chicago. In this way, the test flight base and the headquarters are not in the same place, which is very troublesome to go back and forth. Moreover, for a company as large as Boeing, it will take a while to relocate. Often, some departments are in the old site and some are in the new site, which is quite annoying.
In Boeing's philosophy, as long as the simulator is advanced enough, it can completely replace the real aircraft, so Li Rongcheng still suggested that Xu Cang go to Hong Kong.
However, Xu Cang's answer surprised Li Rongcheng: "What kind of training? I won't go."
"You're going to do the test flight instead of training?" Li Rongcheng thought Xu Cang was upset because of what happened to Li Rongxian just now, so he could only helplessly say: "I know you are angry, but the test flight is not a joke, it's like walking on a tightrope, how can you not participate in the training? Do you want to fly the 777 directly? You don't even know how to fly!"
Who would have thought that Xu Cang would stand up and said in a deep voice: "I feel like you made a mistake. 777, why do you think I can't drive 777?"
"Xu Cang, you..." Li Rongcheng also stood up.
Before Li Rongcheng could finish, a heavy sound of footsteps came and Ye Xian came slowly, still flicking the coin habitually in his hand. He caught it steadily and stared at Xu Cang. He said coldly: "The 777 has not been put into large-scale commercial use yet. How could you possibly know how to fly a 777?"
"Even if I don't know how to fly a 777, don't you know how to fly it?" Xu Cang said with a smile.
Ye Xian's eyes became more fierce: "Then what do we need you for?"
"Whether I participate in 777's training is not within the scope of the agreement. If you feel uneasy, you can go find someone else if you think it is feasible." Xu Cang's eyebrows drooped slightly. He picked up the agreement on the table, rolled it up, and pointed it at Li Rongcheng: "What do you think?"
Li Rongcheng gritted his teeth, thinking that Xu Cang's style of doing things was really unpredictable. Theoretically speaking, Xu Cang was not a madman who was not afraid of life and death. How could he participate in the test flight without knowing anything about the 777?
But as Mr. Ye said, the 777 has never been used commercially on a large scale. What has been leaked now are only some manuals on the model's theory. Apart from the test personnel at Boeing headquarters, only the FAA and a small number of EASA officials have personally experienced it. No one else has actually flown the actual aircraft, and even those who have touched a simulator are quite rare.
The theory of the model is actually fine, but is it true that the feel of the hand really does not need to be cultivated?
But Xu Cang was really hard to judge by common sense. Didn't the second co-pilot of a 737 complete a completely blind flight on a 747? Moreover, they really couldn't find a replacement for Xu Cang for the time being.
For a moment, Li Rongcheng was in a dilemma. Subconsciously, Li Rongcheng looked at Ye Xian. Professional matters should be decided by professionals.
However, Ye Xian stretched out his right fist, holding a coin in his palm. In fact, he didn't know whether Xu Cang was right or not. Intuitively, he didn't think Xu Cang would joke about such a big thing, but logically, everything Xu Cang said seemed so unreasonable.
Since he couldn't make a choice himself, he might as well use the old method. He had wanted to do it with Xu Cang for a long time anyway.
"Guess the coin, a flower or a word!" As he said that, with a crisp sound, the coin was bounced high up by Ye Xian's thumb.
However, Xu Cang didn't even wait for the coin to fall. His right index finger stretched out like lightning, bypassing Ye Xian and lightly touching the falling coin with the nail of his index finger. Then he lowered it slightly to relieve the force of the coin.
Looking at the coin resting steadily on the fingernail of Xu Cang's right hand, Li Rongcheng and Ye Xian's eyelids twitched wildly, especially Ye Xian. He was very close to him, and he could see the imperceptible force-releasing movement of Xu Cang when he caught the coin with his fingernail.
"This person's control over strength has simply reached perfection." Ye Xian always felt that the best feeling for a pilot is that when he is operating the aircraft, the entire aircraft is at his fingertips. The aircraft can change according to the pilot's wishes as long as he wants it to fly.
This is when the pilot's control of the force will be tested. But Xu Cang's move was like a magic trick. If Ye Xian hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that a person could control the force so accurately.
At this moment, there was a word on the side of the coin facing up. Ye Xian suppressed his inner restlessness and forced a smile: "Guess the word?"
However, Xu Cang raised his eyebrows, waved his right hand, and casually threw the coin back to Ye Xian: "Two sides of the same thing, are you always so boring?"
After saying that, Xu Cang turned his back to Li Rongcheng, raised his right hand and waved: "Since you have no objection, then it's settled. Just tell me when the time is confirmed."
After Xu Cang gradually walked away, Li Rongcheng slowly stood up, took the coin from Ye Xian's stiff hand, turned it over and over again, and found that both sides were exactly the same, with words on them.
A long time ago, Ye Xian liked to fiddle with coins in front of people. When he encountered something difficult to decide, he liked to use coin tossing to make a choice. But after so much time, he still never realized that Ye Xian's coin turned out to be the same on both sides.
"How can such a person exist in this world?" Ye Xian's right hand gradually dropped down, his expression seemed to freeze, and he just stared at Li Rongcheng blankly: "Can you tell me why such a person exists in this world?"
…
As night fell and the lights came on, a residential area in Qizhou was brightly lit, with many children and their parents out for a walk, making it very lively. However, the villa area around the artificial lake in this residential area was relatively quiet. In the study room on the second floor of a townhouse in the far corner, Deng Wenjia was sitting in front of a computer in pajamas, concentrating on watching the video on the screen.
And this video was exactly the one Yi Feng sent him not long ago. It was the video of Xu Cang landing at Yulong Airport that Yi Feng mentioned before.
At first, the video was played at normal speed, but after a few seconds, when the plane started to spiral, Deng Wenjia began to slow down the speed so that more details could be seen.
As the video played, Deng Wenjia's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and his neck involuntarily leaned forward, getting closer and closer to the computer screen.
Deng Wenjia didn't know when, but he suddenly felt a warm body approaching him from behind, and his eyes were blinded by a gust of fragrant wind.
"What are you doing?" Deng Wenjia smiled and pulled away the soft hands that were covering his eyes. His figure flashed and the warm and soft girl came into his arms. His wife Li Feifei was already sitting on his lap.
"Just look at the computer properly. Why are you so close to it? Aren't you afraid of myopia?" Li Feifei complained casually, but she was also curious about the computer screen: "What are you looking at?"
"You want to watch it?" This video wasn't confidential, so Deng Wenjia directly moved the progress bar to the beginning and then adjusted it back to normal playback speed: "Watch it for yourself and tell me what you think after watching it."
Li Feifei curved her eyebrows and said, "You are not testing me, right? Okay, show it to me."
Having said that, Li Feifei didn't let Deng Wenjia press the play button, but pressed it herself.
As the video played, Li Feifei watched the content intently. The video was only a little over a minute long, and Li Feifei finished watching it quickly. Until the end of the video, Li Feifei was still a little confused: "You were studying this just now ?"
Deng Wenjia smiled and said, "What's the feeling?"
"What's that feeling? Isn't it just a plane spinning and landing? Is this a 737?" Li Feifei asked in confusion, "What's so good about this?"
Deng Wenjia grabbed his wife's hand and laughed: "But this landing is really difficult."
Li Feifei was not an expert, so she naturally could not see how exaggerated this landing was. Perhaps, she just thought that this landing method was a bit fancy.
But in fact, Xu Cang's landing this time was indeed worthy of Yi Feng's evaluation as the pinnacle of technical performance.
"It's difficult. How difficult is it? Can you do it?" Li Feifei is still quite confident about her husband, the representative appointed by the bureau.
However, Deng Wenjia shook his head helplessly: “I can’t do it!”
"Huh?" Li Feifei was quite surprised, but she still snuggled in Deng Wenjia's arms: "It's okay, you are still young, maybe you can do it in a few years."
“Fei Fei, you don’t understand!” Deng Wenjia let out a long sigh: “In this life, no, even if I add the next life, I can’t do it. You can’t fly, so you don’t understand.”
Li Feifei raised her head and looked at her husband with a wry smile on his face. She blinked and asked, "Who flew?"
Deng Wenjia tapped the tip of Li Feifei's pen with his finger and said, "There's a second mate in our company named Xu Cang. Maybe you two can meet and fly together in the future."
Li Feifei is the chief flight attendant of Shandong Airlines. As Shandong Airlines does not have many staff, the probability of meeting each other flying together in the future is relatively high.
"Second mate, that technical level should be very low." Although Li Feifei didn't fully understand the technical level of the pilots, she still had some rough idea of ​​it after hearing and seeing it: "Which squadron?"
"First Squadron, right now." Deng Wenjia smiled, "But we may have to transfer to the newly built Airbus fleet later."
"Xu Cang's words." Li Feifei showed a thoughtful look, so she tapped on the keyboard and opened her email on the web page, which contained her upcoming flight plan. She opened the attached document and searched for it, and soon found that Xu Cang's name was listed in her flight mission for the day after tomorrow: "Is it this Xu Cang? I'm going to fly with him the day after tomorrow."
At this time, since Xu Cang had not completed the conversion training, he was naturally still flying the Boeing, otherwise he couldn't wait in vain.
"That's true." Deng Wenjia was a little surprised that Xu Cang would fly with his wife later.
Li Feifei's eyes revealed a hint of cunning: "I want to see what kind of person this Xu Cang is."
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The day after tomorrow, at the Shandong Airlines base building, Xu Cang, wearing a Shandong Airlines flight uniform, rushed inside with his head down. He was holding a cell phone and talking to Lu Jinghua: "What do you mean, Guoda Airlines didn't respond, what the hell?"
The day before yesterday, Xu Cang asked Lu Jinghua to inquire about the matter of Guoda Airlines and returning to Blue Sky Airlines after his secondment, as a way to explore the situation in advance. As a result, Lu Jinghua said that Guoda Airlines directly refused to respond on the grounds that there was still some time before the secondment period expired, which made Xu Cang speechless.
At this moment, Xu Cang felt more and more that his road back to Blue Sky Airlines was full of thorns. As long as Guoda Airlines refused to give in and signed the agreement, he really had no other options.
"What you mean is that if I'm seconded, I'll really become a member of Shanhang?" Xu Cang said helplessly.
Lu Jinghua on the other side asked tentatively: "Xu Cang, you really didn't intend to keep Shan Hang, are you sure you want to come back?"
"You don't think I want to stay in Shanhang by taking this opportunity!" Xu Cang cursed, "I want to go back, do you understand?"
Perhaps infected by Xu Cang's eagerness to return home, Lu Jinghua's blood boiled, and he said righteously: "With your words, I feel relieved. Xu Cang, since you have chosen Blue Sky Airlines, this matter will definitely be handled for you..."
Xu Cang felt relieved when he heard Lu Jinghua's confidence. He was about to reply, but suddenly, he felt a fragrance filling his nose and the sound of beautiful women surrounding him.
So, he stopped and looked up, and found that all he saw were beautiful women in sky blue slim-fitting cheongsams. Only then did Xu Cang realize that he seemed to have gone to the wrong place, and instead of going to the flight preparation room, he rushed into the cabin preparation room.
Cheongsam is a dress that best highlights the figure. If a person has a slightly imperfect figure, it will not only fail to achieve the effect of enhancing the figure, but will instead expose the flaws of the figure.
But all he saw were curvy women with long legs and fair skin. In the air mixed with rich fragrance, Xu Cang slowly picked up his phone and said blankly, "Brother Lu, I changed my mind. I'm not going back!"