Chapter 133 Angels and Demons!
Although so many things have happened, Xu Cang has never felt that his luck is bad. After all, it is hard not to believe that he is the chosen one when he encounters rebirth.
Of course, he has encountered many thrilling things since his rebirth, but Xu Cang attributed all these situations to accidents. Who doesn’t encounter some accidents?
"Really?" The co-pilot narrowed his eyes and smiled: "I also feel that I am very lucky. I think nothing will happen."
Of course, from the very beginning, the co-pilot did not really reduce the metaphysical problem to the scope of practical considerations, he was simply teasing Xu Cang.
Putting away the phone, the co-pilot raised his chin towards Xu Cang and said, "Brother, you really fly this simulator. If something goes wrong, I can't help you."
"It's okay, it's just a little more repair, it's not a big deal." Xu Cang asked in a relaxed manner: "This simulator inspection was originally scheduled at the last minute. If it's wasted, I don't know how long I'll have to wait later."
The co-pilot wanted to persuade Xu Cang: "It's really unnecessary. If you die, won't you waste more time later? An unbalanced simulator is very troublesome. You will know it when you fly certain subjects, such as single-engine. Even if you are doing the initial modification now and don't need to fly single-engine without guidance, you can't take it lightly."
Xu Cang could see that the co-pilot was really doing this for his own good, but he didn't really care and waved his hand: "Brother, it's okay, it's just a minor inconvenience."
After that, Xu Cang said to the simulator administrator: "Continue the subsequent inspection."
The simulator administrator asked in surprise, "This time there was a problem with the simulator software. The center of gravity shifted extremely dramatically. The crew ahead of us flew over and gave up after trying for less than ten minutes. How about you reconsider it? This kind of schedule cancellation caused by simulator failure has nothing to do with your company. Our center will compensate you for the same amount of time later."
The simulator administrator was worried that Xu Cang was flying the faulty simulator for fear of wasting his company's training costs, so he kindly reminded him.
However, Xu Cang was not worried about this, he just chuckled: "It's okay, let's do it."
"Okay." Seeing that Xu Cang had made up his mind, the simulator administrator did not insist. Anyway, he had given a good reminder, and if Xu Cang suffered a loss later, it had nothing to do with him.
After the simulator administrator left, the co-pilot did not go to eat snacks anymore. Instead, he sat in the seat next to Xu Cang and casually flipped through the inspection work list that Xu Cang brought.
"Isn't this our National University's work order?" The co-pilot threw the work order aside and stretched his body. "Brother, are you in such a hurry to leave the fleet? You're even flying a faulty simulator?"
"I'm not in a hurry." Xu Cang looked down and found Hu Jing's name on the boarding pass hanging on the co-pilot's seat. He said calmly, "I just don't think the uneven center of gravity is a big problem."
Co-pilot Hu Jing was stunned for a moment, then he clapped his hands and laughed, then gave Xu Cang a thumbs up: "Crazy, really crazy! Are all Shandong Airlines students so crazy?"
"What are you so crazy about?" At this time, a middle-aged man in a small jacket came over from a distance. He looked unshaven and had a messy hair. He walked over slowly. He pulled a chair and sat down, looking at Xu Cang and Hu Jing: "What are you talking about?"
Hu Jing obviously knew this middle-aged man, and said with a smile: "Teacher, today's simulator..."
"Nothing, instructor. I was just joking with my brother." Xu Cang interrupted Hu Jing directly. He guessed that Hu Jing was going to talk about the simulator failure. This matter could not be said. What if the inspector found out that there was a fault in the simulator and forcibly interrupted the inspection?
"Hmm?" Hu Jing looked at Xu Cang in surprise, and then he realized that Xu Cang was shaking his head very slightly. He didn't quite understand what Xu Cang wanted to do, but he still kept his mouth shut and didn't mention the simulator failure anymore.
Teacher Shi Qi yawned, poured himself a cup of tea, and drank it all in one gulp: "I always feel like you are hiding something from me. But, whatever."
He frowned and looked at Hu Jing, then realized: "It turned out to be Xiao Hu, I didn't recognize you just now."
As he spoke, Shi Qi looked at Xu Cang and said, "So you are the one doing the inspection this time?"
"Yes, teacher." Xu Cang nodded quickly.
The moment Xu Cang opened his mouth, Shi Qi's drooping eyelids suddenly lifted up, but soon returned to normal, and he said calmly: "It's just the initial modification inspection, right? Just fly it casually, as long as you don't smash the plane. Can it fly well?"
Xu Cang immediately said: "Instructor, I will fly well."
"Yeah." Shi Qi saw the inspection work sheet on the table, picked it up casually, and hooked his finger at Xu Cang: "Where's the pen?"
Xu Cang quickly handed the pen over. As a result, Shi Qi, who took the pen, signed the work sheet directly, and then threw the pen back to Xu Cang: "Okay, is this okay?"
Hu Jingdu was stunned. How could the simulator be signed off before it even flew? In his impression, Instructor Shi Qi was quite strict when he was at Guoda Aviation, and there were many people who failed the inspections he was responsible for. How come he became like this after being assigned to Shandong Airlines?
Xu Cang didn't expect that the instructor would lend him a pen just to sign the work order. He wanted to say something, but Shi Qi scratched his bird's nest-like hair, half-closed his eyes, as if he was very sleepy, and nodded : "It's time, let's go."
Xu Cang quickly put away the work order and there was no time to discuss the issue of signing in advance. Anyway, he just had to fly well and be worthy of that signature.
Shi Qi staggered towards the maintenance room, Xu Cang and Hu Jing followed behind. Judging from his back, Shi Qi really looked like he was still drunk.
Xu Cang remembered that Guoda Airlines should have strict discipline on the conduct of its pilots. How could they allow drunk pilots to participate in flight-related work, even in a simulator?
However, Xu Cang did not smell any alcohol around Shi Qi, but Shi Qi's mental state was too depressed, almost abnormally so.
Xu Cang filled in the information in the simulator training log book and entered the cabin to prepare according to the normal process. Shi Qi lay down on the seat behind the control console, tilted his head, and half-closed his eyes to observe Xu Cang's preparation process.
Suddenly, Shi Qi asked, "Where are your initial training records? The Airbus training syllabus of your Shandong Airlines should be copied directly from ours, so the initial training should have 20 lessons. How come you only have one inspection work sheet?"
While preparing the cockpit, Xu Cang replied, "Instructor, I will skip the initial training and just go straight to the inspection."
"Ah?" Hu Jing, who was in charge of coordination on the left, was obviously very confused by Xu Cang's words: "Can the initial training still be exempted?"
Compared to Hu Jing's shock, Shi Qi's reaction was quite calm: "Of course it can be exempted, as long as we get the special permission from the General Administration's Flying Standards Department. Why, you want it too?"
"Flying Standard Division?" Hu Jing looked back at the listless Shi Qi with some suspicion, thinking that maybe Teacher Shi was confused today? The training outline was formulated by the Flying Standard Division of the General Administration. If he issued a special permit that violated the training outline, wouldn't it be a slap in his face?
Shi Qi didn't dwell too much on what Xu Cang said about the Feibiaosi special permit. Instead, he supported his head with one hand, half asleep and half awake, perhaps because he felt that sitting like this was not conducive to rest. So, he kicked the back of Hu Jing's chair with his foot: "Will your kid break down?"
"Instructor, I can only do some simple things." Shi Qi waved at him and said, "I don't want to make it difficult for you. Just follow the inspection work sheet and make a few faults and fly it."
"Ah? Instructor, I have to cooperate with him. Then let him fly alone? How can he fly alone?" Hu Jing was obviously worried about Xu Cang. This kind of initial modification students have no basic skills, and he can help a little by cooperating with them. Although the help may be limited, it is better than nothing.
Shi Qi rolled his eyes and said, "You're still worried about him? He can fly the plane down with his eyes closed, so why should you worry about him? Stop talking nonsense and get down!"
Xu Cang was originally inputting flight data, but when he heard Shi Qi say that he could fly the plane with his eyes closed, he stopped what he was doing. He instinctively felt that Shi Qi was hinting at something, but he himself had no obvious evidence, so he ultimately attributed it to his own imagination, and without giving it any more thought, he continued to prepare.
Hu Jing was forced to get off his seat by Shi Qi, and reluctantly helped Shi Qi operate the control console. Shi Qi, on the other hand, leaned back on his seat and half-lay down, looking extremely relaxed.
Seeing that Shi Qi was about to fall asleep, Hu Jing really didn't know what to say, so he could only remind Xu Cang: "Tell me when you are ready, and I will go out according to the order of the faults on the work order."
To be honest, Hu Jing's words really made him look like he was cheating. The content of the initial modification worksheet was not much, and if each major category was presented in order, Xu Cang could almost think of how to present the subjects later.
However, Shi Qi didn't care at all and just lay down on the chair and yawned.
Faced with such an indifferent instructor, Hu Jing completely let himself go and conducted each subject at the simplest level. For example, the wind shear was only mild, and to be honest, Xu Cang did not feel the crosswind during the crosswind takeoff and landing, and the single-engine subject was just a simple engine failure, without any other conditions such as misfire or surge.
At first Xu Cang thought that it was just an initial modification inspection that was too easy, but later on, even though Xu Cang reacted a little slower, he noticed that Hu Jing was deliberately letting him off.
Xu Cang was not a rigid person. He accepted Hu Jing's kindness very naturally and went through one subject after another silently and boringly.
At first, Hu Jing was still concentrating on how to reduce the difficulty for Xu Cang, so much so that he only later noticed that there seemed to be no obvious problems with the plane.
"Didn't they say there was a problem with the plane's center of gravity balance?" Hu Jing watched Xu Cang control the plane steadily from behind and thought that the unstable center of gravity might not be serious. He guessed that he was overthinking it.
Hu Jing's eyesight is too poor, but Shi Qi is not like that. Although he was lying down, he just happened to see Xu Cang's right hand controlling the side stick out of the corner of his eye.
"Why are his techniques so fragmented?" After watching Xu Cang's manipulation for a while, Shi Qi became suspicious. Xu Cang had been manipulating the plane quite frequently from the beginning, which was not a performance worthy of praise.
The pilot's control of the aircraft is too fragmented, which often reflects the pilot's lack of confidence in control, just like some pilots like to shake the aircraft unconsciously before landing. At that time, even if the aircraft is clearly on the centerline of the runway, the pilot likes to shake the aircraft left and right, which is clearly a meaningless action.
This behavior often means that the pilot is uncomfortable, or does not have a deep understanding of the aircraft's status and is unsure. When about to land, he can't help but feel anxious, so he shakes the plane left and right to relieve his anxiety.
Of course, this does not mean that a pilot with this control phenomenon is not a good pilot. Even some veteran instructors who have been flying for decades may have small left and right stick movements when entering the runway.
Just like some pilots like to pull the stick when leveling, this is a bad habit. Sometimes, this habit cannot be reversed by force.
Even the lowest-ranking pilots have their own control habits. If they are forced to change, something bad may happen. However, low-ranking pilots are always more malleable. The methods of those old instructors are engraved in their bones, and it is estimated that they will not be able to change them when they retire.
If the control frequency is too fragmented, the pilot may not be able to see the deviation of the aircraft accurately, so he is always unable to accurately correct the deviation, so he needs to constantly adjust his control amount to completely eliminate the deviation.
"Shouldn't he be unable to see the deviation?" Shi Qi thought to himself, "Could it be that he has really gotten into bad habits?"
Just now, Shi Qi was not making up stories when he said that Xu Cang could land a plane with his eyes closed. Xu Cang's feeling was correct, and he was hinting at something.
Previously, Xu Cang sent a blind landing message on the emergency frequency before landing in the 9811 incident, and Shi Qi was in the sky at the time and received Xu Cang's message. So, when Xu Cang spoke, Shi Qi immediately recognized it.
There was no way, the feat of blindly flying a 747 to land was too impressive. It was precisely because Shi Qi knew that Xu Cang was the operator of 9811 that he signed for Xu Cang in advance.
Although he didn't know why Xu Cang came to fly the initial inspection of the Airbus 320, Shi Qi still gave enough respect to the pilot who handled 9811.
Two hours passed in a flash. It had been a long time since Xu Cang had experienced such an easy and carefree flight. With Shi Qi's signal to freeze the simulator and announce the end of the inspection, Xu Cang directly loosened the side stick and tapped his sore waist. He couldn't help but sigh inwardly. Why did his waist start to not work well at such a young age? How could he maintain his happy life in the future?
Shi Qi sat up straight and said to Xu Cang, "Xu Cang, go wait outside."
Xu Cang also planned to stay longer in the simulated cabin. Because of the need to cool the equipment, the air conditioning was turned on very high, and Xu Cang began to feel unbearable very early on.
After packing up, Xu Cang left first, and Hu Jing also started to pack up and prepare to leave. But Shi Qi got off the chair and patted Hu Jing: "Don't leave yet, listen to my command and help me unfreeze yourself."
After saying that, Shi Qi actually stepped into the left seat of the simulator, adjusted the seat slightly, then held the side stick with his left hand, raised his right hand and snapped his fingers: "Defrost."
Hu Jing didn't think much about it, he just thought Shi Qi was just itching to try his hand at flying, so he followed Shi Qi's instructions and unlocked the frozen simulator.
At this time, the aircraft was on the fifth blind landing, and the problem was flap deflection. Due to the existence of this problem, the aircraft maintained a high speed approach. To be fair, except for the high approach speed and the continuous aircraft deflection caused by the flap deflection, the rest was really not difficult to control, at least for a pilot of Shi Qi's level.
However, as soon as Hu Jingfu thawed, the plane started to deviate to the left. Shi Qi had expected the plane to deviate, and was about to correct the deviation, but without any warning, the plane turned to the right again.
Shi Qi thought the plane was deviating to the right because he had just made too rough a correction. So he slightly reduced the force of the correction. However, as soon as Shi Qi reduced the force of the correction, the plane deviated more violently. That was not all. The originally normal descent rate suddenly increased without any pitch control by Shi Qi, and in an instant it exceeded 1,200 feet per minute.
Due to the very high approach speed, the normal required descent rate was already close to one thousand feet per minute. With a little extra descent, it was reasonable to increase the descent rate to one thousand two hundred feet.
Shi Qi noticed the pitch problem immediately. To be honest, he didn't know why the plane suddenly increased its descent rate. However, he reacted quickly and slightly lowered the stick with a slight force. Who knew that this action, which could have been used to pay attention to the input amount, would directly lead to an unexpected situation, and the plane actually leveled out.
The plane's reaction shocked Shi Qi. Even if he was slow to react, he knew there was something wrong with the simulator.
He simply let go of the side stick, and the uncontrolled plane rushed directly to the ground. In the end, the simulator screen turned blood red. Shi Qi slowly got down from his seat and glared at Hu Jing fiercely: "There is a problem with the simulator, why didn't you tell me just now."
Hu Jing felt a little wronged: "Teacher, it was the brother who just said it was okay and asked me not to say anything."
"He said he's okay?" Shi Qi frowned.
Hu Jing nodded: "Yes. Besides, I saw him flying just now and it seemed like nothing happened."
"It's nothing, that's him flying! If you were flying, the plane would have been smashed long ago." Shi Qi sighed in his heart: "It turns out that he is the one who dealt with 9811. He is really extraordinary."
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At this time, thousands of miles away, in the office of Luo Yong, vice president of operations of the Blue Sky Aviation Base Building in Jianchuan City, Lu Jinghua was leaning on his desk with both hands, staring at Luo Yong.
Luo Yong felt a little uneasy when Lu Jinghua stared at him, and said helplessly: "Can you please stop staring at me like that? Watch out for your eyes popping out."
"Boss Luo, our employees are in prison, how can you sit here with such peace of mind?"
The veins on Luo Yong's forehead throbbed. He knew that Lu Jinghua was talking about Xu Cang. Lu Jinghua had approached him a few days ago and said that Guoda Airlines intended to prevent Xu Cang from returning to BlueSky Airlines after his secondment.
Lu Jinghua's intention was very simple, to let Luo Yong, the vice president of operations, appear to coordinate with Guoda Airlines. To be honest, Xu Cang had not offended Guoda Airlines, and Guoda Airlines had always been more reasonable, so there was always room for negotiation.
But after being annoyed by Lu Jinghua, Luo Yong set off for the headquarters of Guoda Airlines. After that, Luo Yong never mentioned Xu Cang again.
Now that Lu Jinghua was blocking him in the office, Luo Yong became furious: "What's the point of getting angry with me? No means no!"
"Why is it not possible?" Lu Jinghua asked, "The one who said that Xu Cang should not come back was a guy named Yi Feng. Can't you just confront him face to face?"
"That's all. Why don't you just go find the director of the Civil Aviation Administration? You're so arrogant." Luo Yong snorted, "Do you think I don't want to find him? That Yi Feng is the director of the Aviation Strategy Department of the National University. The gap between us is like heaven and earth. I can't even see his shadow. Who can I talk to?"
"War...Strategic Department? What is that?" Lu Jinghua asked with some confusion.
There is no such department as Strategic Department in Blue Sky Airlines, so it is normal that Lu Jinghua does not know about it.
As a result, this scene fell into Luo Yong's eyes. Luo Yong was too lazy to waste time talking to Lu Jinghua, a country bumpkin, and pointed directly at the office door: "Get out of here right now. I have already lost face once at Guoda Airlines. Please don't raise my blood pressure again."
Just when Lu Jinghua wanted to say a few more words, there was a knock on the door from behind. The two looked at the door and saw a young woman in a flight attendant uniform standing at the door timidly. If Xu Cang was here, he would quickly recognize that this person was Xia Shuyue.
Lu Jinghua recognized Xia Shuyue. He remembered that this flight attendant had a good relationship with Xu Cang, so he asked curiously, "What are you doing here?"
Why would a flight attendant go to the office of the Vice President of Operations?
This was Xia Shuyue's first time in the office of the Vice President of Operations. Although Luo Yong was a pilot, the position of Vice President of Operations also governs the cabin department, so Luo Yong is also the highest leader of the cabin crew system where Xia Shuyue works, which makes the already introverted Xia Shuyue even more restrained.
Xia Shuyue walked in nervously, holding a roll of newspaper. She first greeted Luo Yong and the others politely, "Hello, Mr. Luo, Mr. Lu."
Luo Yong was already a little annoyed by Lu Jinghua, and he didn't have the patience to care about a small waiter, so he snorted, "What's the matter?"
"Boss Luo, I just want to ask what happened to Brother Xu Cang. I heard that he was seconded to Shandong Airlines?" Xia Shuyue asked timidly, "When can he come back?"
Lu Jinghua said unhappily: "He is looking at the beautiful women from Shanhang now, I am afraid he won't come back."
Lu Jinghua was just teasing Xia Shuyue, but Xia Shuyue's face turned pale and she even looked like she was about to cry. When Lu Jinghua saw Xia Shuyue's expression, he immediately panicked.
However, Xia Shuyue quickly controlled her emotions, took a deep breath, and then handed the newspaper to Lu Jinghua. She knew that Lu Jinghua had a better , so she subconsciously gave it to Lu Jinghua.
"Mr. Lu, this is the latest issue of the civil aviation official newspaper. Take a look at the article on the front page. Why do I feel like it's talking about Brother Xu Cang?" Xia Shuyue said worriedly.
"What?" Lu Jinghua never read any newspapers related to the civil aviation industry. However, since Xia Shuyue brought it to him, he still read it reluctantly.
Lu Jinghua quickly opened the newspaper. He didn't even read the exact content of the article carefully. His face changed drastically when he saw the eye-catching headline.
The front page headline of the newspaper reads: Angels and Demons: On Personal Heroism in Civil Aviation Safety!
