At 2 pm the next day, news came from Qitai that the morning fog had dissipated and the airport met the standards for takeoff and landing. Qitai Airport is too close to the canyon and the two sides of the canyon are too high, so the accumulated fog cannot dissipate in time and can only dissipate after the sun rises, which is consistent with what was expected yesterday.
As Di Qingquan said, there is no commercial operation on the Shule-Qitai route, and as long as you apply for it, it will basically be approved.
After receiving the weather message from Qitai Airport, Di Qingquan immediately started reporting and waited for a reply. During this time, Xu Cang and Chen Guoli had already boarded the plane. This time, Xu Cang was in charge of the flight to Qitai. After landing in Qitai, if there were no special circumstances, the single-engine verification would be started directly.
In the cockpit, Xu Cang and Chen Guoli both changed into pilot uniforms, which was a bit ceremonial. Moreover, what interested Xu Cang was that Chen Guoli's Tiandong Airlines uniform was not a traditional suit, but a double-breasted one that was more slim-fitting. If a slender pilot wore it, it would undoubtedly be a plus.
Although Xu Cang has the impression that the three major airlines are rather old-fashioned, at least in terms of uniform style, Tiandong Airlines is relatively fashionable.
"Fuel zero 49.7, center of gravity 21.3, temperature two degrees, corrected sea pressure 1031."
Xu Cang was preparing the plane, and Chen Guoli was reporting some flight data.
"49.7?" Xu Cang stopped what he was doing, turned sideways, and glanced at the manifest in Chen Guoli's hand: "700?"
"HH model." Chen Guoli showed the manifest to Xu Cang: "The plane is very light, so you need to be careful when operating it."
It is not a good thing to have an aircraft that is too light. For example, when the aircraft is flying without a load during maneuvers, the feeling is particularly strong. If the aircraft is too light, it will feel like a ship without ballast. Moreover, because the aircraft is not so light most of the time, the control feel is also very different from other times. If you are not careful, it is easy to cause problems.
Xu Cang glanced at the ZFW's value, and it was the same as what Chen Guoli reported before, so he didn't look down any further: "Fortunately, there is a lot of oil, so we can suppress it a little bit."
Considering Chen Guoli’s experience last time, the flight was only for more than half an hour, and he brought almost an hour and a half of extra fuel, which was enough for Xu Cang to make four or five circles over Qitai Airport.
For Xu Cang, carrying so much fuel is actually not very useful. Xu Cang is not a twisted person. If he can land, he will definitely land. If he can't land, Xu Cang will not waste time circling in the sky, but will come back directly.
However, a large amount of fuel can also help to keep the planes under control, which is a good thing. Moreover, Qitai Airport does not have a fuel pipeline, and all fuel is stored. Therefore, the less fuel you can refuel at Qitai Airport, the better, after all, the fuel transportation cost at Qitai Airport is a bit high.
"There is no plan for the route."
On this Guoda Airlines plane, there was definitely no Shule-Qitai route in the company's route database. As a result, Di Qingquan also said that there was no flight plan released, and he would dictate it to him later, and no paper materials were allowed to be left.
Chen Guoli recalled: "Last time I took the J212 route directly, which passed directly through the Qitai VOR."
"What about Qitai's entrance?"
"We have not entered the airport yet. We are close to Qitai Airport. After we transfer to the airport tower, we will be guided by the tower radar."
Xu Cang was stunned: "Qitai Airport has radar control? I thought it was procedural control over there."
Generally, only large airports have radar control, and controllers can see the position and altitude of aircraft in real time through radar, so as to make relatively flexible adjustments. However, radar control systems are too expensive, and smaller branch airports simply cannot afford them, so most of them are procedurally controlled, that is, aircraft must fly along preset routes and cannot deviate at will.
Qitai Airport cannot be compared with large airports in terms of scale, but it actually has a radar command system, which is really rare.
"You know what. The construction cost of Qitai Airport is not inferior to any other large airport in a provincial capital. If it weren't for the terrain restrictions, they would definitely have built a runway of more than 4,000 meters in Qitai, so that the landing distance would not be as tight as it is now."
"It seems that I still underestimated the importance of Qitai Airport."
After saying that, Xu Cang went back to work on CDU.
Chen Guoli was a little bored and said, "Do you want to sit on the left? I heard that you don't have a dominant hand."
"Hmm?" Xu Cang was stunned, then smiled and said, "No need, I can just sit on the right side."
Xu Cang could see that this was Chen Guoli's way of expressing his dominance. In any case, the left side was the customary captain's seat, and Chen Guoli took the initiative to ask Xu Cang to sit on the left, which undoubtedly showed that he was willing to obey Xu Cang.
After dialing the distance circle of Shule Airport, Xu Cang slightly increased the distance setting on the navigation page and said casually, "The leader of your Tiandong Airlines is coming. Why don't you go and say hello?"
At this moment, in the cabin at the back of the plane, in addition to Bi Lin and Di Qingquan, there were three other people. Even Xu Cang did not expect these three people to come, including Zhou Yanping, the director of the strategic department of Tiandong Airlines.
As an instructor of Tiandong Airlines, it is natural to say hello to the leader when he comes. However, Chen Guoli obviously has a high status in Tiandong Airlines, so he just waved his hand and said, "No need, forget about the formalities. However, I am quite surprised that the top executives of the three major airlines are here."
Not only Zhou Yanping from Tiandong Airlines, but also Ma Cheng from Muhua Airlines came. As for Guoda Airlines, the top leader Yue Sheng came directly. This was indeed a big scene.
"Yeah, I want to know that too."
At this moment, when Xu Cang and the other person were pondering the purpose of the three people's visit, the atmosphere in the cabin was indeed a bit weird.
Bi Lin sat in the first row, Di Qingquan and Yue Sheng sat in the second row, followed by Zhou Yanping and Ma Cheng. The status of these people can be seen from the order of seats alone. Moreover, if Bi Lin did not speak, no one else dared to speak, so that the cabin seemed quiet.
"Xiao Ma, Lao Si is not here?" Bi Lin asked.
Ma Cheng, who was usually arrogant and domineering, looked reserved at this time: "Mr. Bi, the chairman is old and it is not convenient for him to travel long distances."
"It's true that he's old, and it's not convenient for him to travel long distances. But I know he goes to Erhai Lake from time to time. He doesn't have the energy to come to Shule, but he's very diligent when he goes to Erhai Lake."
Ma Cheng looked a little embarrassed: "Maybe it's because Erhai Lake is closer."
"I think you're going to look for your grandson-in-law, right? How's Linglong doing lately?"
Ma Cheng was sweating profusely: "Miss Linglong is now working for Spring Airlines. I haven't seen her for a while."
"Heh." Bi Lin just laughed softly, but there was something else in his laughter . However, he did not embarrass Ma Cheng anymore, but turned to Zhou Yanping: "Where is Gu Chen?"
Zhou Yanping was not only very sincere, he even stood up and said, "Master, Master has gone to England. Tiandong is going to open an international route to England recently, Master takes it very seriously and has personally gone to England to supervise it."
"You are the same as your master. You are terrible at flying and you only use your skills to make money." Bi Lin snorted and seemed quite dissatisfied with the head of Tiandong Airlines.
Zhou Yanping nodded quickly and said, "Master, you are right. My flying aptitude is dull and I have humiliated your reputation."
Ma Cheng, who was sitting next to Zhou Yanping, saw that his opponent, who usually fought with him enthusiastically, was scolded like a grandson, and he didn't show any dissatisfaction at all. He was really in awe of Bi Lin.
This is Bi Lin’s power!
Among the three major airlines, the chairman of Tiandong Airlines is Bi Lin's apprentice, and the chairman of Muhua Airlines is Bi Lin's friend. I don't know if Yue Sheng of Guoda Airlines is under Bi Lin's control. However, seeing that Yue Sheng took the initiative to sit in the row behind Bi Lin, it means that he thinks he is inferior to Bi Lin.
The most experienced pilot in the country, he was once a very talented pilot. Whether in terms of qualifications or skills, he was a figure who suppressed the entire flying community.
"Old Si understood what I meant, so there was no need for me to tell him specifically. But your master realized it later. When he comes back, I will ask him to come find me. I will still tell him in person."
Zhou Yanping said, "Master, I remember everything."
"Uncle, is there something important that you want us to come over here today? Why do you want us to come here in person?" At this time, Yue Sheng, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke.
Ma Cheng's pupils shrank instantly when he heard these words. Wow, Bi Lin is actually Yue Sheng's uncle, a real relative.
Bi Lin leaned on his cane and tapped it lightly on the floor, making a thumping sound. "Mobile phones are very developed nowadays. However, I always feel that it is not formal enough to call you, and I am afraid that you will not take it seriously."
"Master, how could we not take your words to heart?" Zhou Yanping smiled, looking a little fawning.
"But I don't think it's enough!" Bi Lin narrowed his eyes and his voice became extremely serious: "Yue Sheng, I heard that Xiao Yi from your National University had a quarrel with you?"
Yue Sheng snorted, and his eyes moved forward to the cockpit door: "He wants to go to Erhai Lake."
"Then let him go, don't stop him."
Yue Sheng was stunned: "Uncle, what are you doing..."
Yue Sheng was such a great person that just from this one sentence, he could already guess Bi Lin's intention in summoning them here.
"Uncle, are you doing this for Xu Cang?"
Bi Lin made no secret of it: "Yes, it's for Xu Cang."
Hearing this, Zhou Yanping's expression changed slightly, and he said cautiously: "Master, you also know that the three of us have promised not to compete with Spring Airlines for the market in the next five years. Isn't that enough? Moreover, Master, you should know that we are still good to Xu Cang."
"It's not enough." Bi Lin said in a deep voice.
Yue Sheng was a little unhappy now: "Uncle, our three families have taken such good care of him, isn't that enough? What else can we do? We can't just give him the flight route and the plane for free, right?"
Zhou Yanping's face suddenly changed, and he tried to smooth things over: "Don't be impatient, Mr. Yue."
He didn't want Yue Sheng to upset Bi Lin and cause him to suffer an unexpected disaster. Deep down, Zhou Yanping was extremely afraid of Bi Lin. Whenever Bi Lin glared at him, he would tremble. In fact, not to mention Zhou Yanping, even the upright Chen Xiangdong was very afraid of Bi Lin.
Zhou Yanping was originally of a lower generation than Yue Sheng, so Yue Sheng was really outspoken: "Hey, you Tiandong people should be good people. Yes, you really got benefits from Xu Cang. Wasn't the British route transferred to you by Xu Cang? Our National University didn't get any benefits, and even my most preferred successor was poached. I still have to support him?"
In Yue Sheng's heart, Yi Feng was the successor he had chosen. Otherwise, he would not have taken on the pressure at the board meeting and written off Yi Feng's previous affairs, at the cost of only letting Yi Feng take back the plane.
No matter from which angle, Yue Sheng was already quite partial to Yi Feng. However, Yi Feng was determined to leave, and when his resignation letter was handed to Yue Sheng, the usually calm Yue Sheng felt dizzy, and his resentment towards Xu Cang doubled.
Zhou Yanping was scolded by Yue Sheng, but he was smiling. He was afraid of Bi Lin, but not Yue Sheng. Yue Sheng was of higher status than him, but he could not control the affairs of Tiandong Airlines. As long as Yue Sheng did not provoke Bi Lin, he did not care what Yue Sheng said.
However, at this time, Ma Cheng also spoke up: "Mr. Bi, we are the younger generation and should not say too much. But we have indeed done our best for Xu Cang. In the fleet of Spring Airlines, there is also a plane of ours, Mu Hua, which has not yet been rented, and we have not pursued it. Some time ago, we also made an additional investment in Spring Airlines. Having done this, Mr. Bi, is this really okay?"
"That's what Lao Si saw clearly." Bi Lin snorted: "I'm afraid you guys still don't understand the situation, so I have to remind you in person."
Yue Sheng suddenly felt unhappy: "Can Xu Cang be the Monkey King who can turn the world upside down? Mr. Si is like this, and so are you, uncle. Do you think so highly of him? Yes, he has some abilities..."
Before Yue Sheng finished speaking, Bi Lin interrupted: "Then why did you agree to sell him 20 ARJ21s for free?"
These words choked Yue Sheng, and he didn't know how to respond.
"Xu Cang wants to develop domestic aviation engines and build our own large aircraft. Not long ago, Lin Ming told me that Xu Cang had given him the blueprints of the 737NG."
Yue Sheng and the others knew all this and were not surprised. However, the next sentence made their faces change drastically.
"Your impression of Xu Cang is still too slow." Bi Lin sighed: "If nothing unexpected happens, Boeing's domestic aviation materials will be available soon."
When this was said, Yue Sheng reacted strongly: "Impossible, who would dare to use it without Boeing's authorization?"
"Lin Ming told me that they would set up an aviation materials company and obtain official authorization from Boeing, and at least some of the aviation materials could be nationalized."
"Boeing has granted AVIC a genuine license?" Zhou Yanping thought the news was as outrageous as the sun rising from the west. "How could Boeing possibly grant AVIC a license? According to estimates, the size of the domestic fleet will grow more than five times in the next ten years. Even a portion of the aviation materials market would be a considerable profit. How could Boeing agree to do so?"
Ma Cheng did not raise the question directly, but asked carefully: "Mr. Bi, Boeing authorized AVIC not because of AVIC, right?"
"That's right!" Bi Lin sighed, "Lin Ming said that AVIC contributed the most to the aviation materials company, but it was not the leader. Boeing's authorization was indeed not given to AVIC."
Yue Sheng's eyes sparkled: "Who is so prestigious that he can get Boeing's aviation material authorization?"
As soon as he finished speaking, an idea suddenly occurred to Yue Sheng's mind, and his eyes fell on the cockpit door in front of him again: "Could it be...Xu Cang?"
"It's Xu Cang!" Bi Lin laughed, somewhat relieved: "What an amazing kid. Xu Cang didn't contribute anything to the aviation materials company, but he provided a Boeing authorization, thus taking up the largest share."
"How could he obtain Boeing's aviation material authorization?" Yue Sheng's voice was slightly gloomy.
"It's not just Boeing's aviation materials." Bi Lin snorted: "In the future, Xu Cang will also obtain the distribution rights for the Rolls-Royce Trent series engines. In the future, you will probably have to buy the Airbus 330 engines from Xu Cang."
At first, Ma Cheng's reaction was not very big. Because Muhua intended to develop Airbus models, the demand for Boeing aircraft materials was not that great, and naturally there was no need to be constrained. It was nothing like Guoda Airlines, which had the largest proportion of Boeing models among the three major airlines.
But when Bi Lin mentioned the Trent series engines, Ma Cheng's face suddenly changed. You know, Muhua Airlines has the Airbus 330 with the largest number of aircraft in China, and aircraft engines are undoubtedly the most expensive aviation materials.
Bi Lin raised his eyebrows: "To be precise, it's not the domestic distribution rights of the Trent series, but the Asia-Pacific region."
Xu Cang meant that since they had already established an aviation material company in cooperation with AVIC, why not make the best use of it and place the future distribution of the Trent series engines in that aviation material company. In this way, Lin Ming knew that Xu Cang would get the Trent series engines, and then Bi Lin also knew about it.
"Why did Rolls-Royce give the distribution rights of the Trent series to Xu Cang?" Ma Cheng couldn't control himself this time.
This is a big business!
No matter how successful Xu Cang was before, Ma Cheng always had a congenital feeling of looking down on him. But now that Xu Cang has mastered the distribution rights of the Trent series engines, it has really begun to affect the strategy of Muhua Aviation.
Xu Cang will be someone he has to treat seriously.
Yue Sheng blinked a few times and sorted out some of the thoughts in an instant. Recalling what Xu Cang said at the board meeting some time ago, Yue Sheng gritted his teeth and said, "Is this the condition for Xu Cang to participate in the actual test of the Trent 1000 engine? Rolls-Royce is really going all out."
"Trent 1000? Isn't it still Trent 900 now? No, even Trent 900 is not fully commercialized yet, where does Trent 1000 come from?" Ma Cheng was puzzled.
Yue Sheng sneered, "That's why Rolls-Royce is willing to offer such a price. Xu Cang dared to test the actual aircraft when there was not even a prototype. If he died in the UK, wouldn't everything be in vain?"
"Yue Sheng, you are like Xiao Ma, you are not born into a flying family, so you don't understand. Yanping's talent is too poor, and he can't understand the subtleties of it..."
At the end of the conversation, Zhou Yanping's face flushed. Compared with a genius like Bi Lin, his flying talent was naturally mediocre. But compared with ordinary people, Zhou Yanping felt that his talent was still quite outstanding. Being taught a lesson in public like this, he was really embarrassed.
Yue Sheng was still a little unconvinced: "No matter how good the pilot is, if the wing is broken, the plane will still crash. There is a limit to the pilot's ability to control the plane. Chief Engineer Di, we are not professionals. Just tell me, is Xu Cang really so amazing?"
Di Qingquan, who had been silent the whole time, was suddenly called out and could only smile: "I am not as good as him, so I can't comment on him."
"You are the chief engineer of the General Administration, but you can't evaluate a co-pilot?" Yue Sheng didn't believe it at all. He just thought Di Qingquan was being polite: "Chief Engineer Di, what you said is not convincing."
Di Qingquan looked even more helpless: "I am not as good as a genius who is born with knowledge."
"Master Di, you..."
As soon as Di Qingquan finished speaking, Bi Lin, who was sitting in the front row, slammed the floor again, suppressing Yue Sheng's words: "It is said that seeing is believing. Come with me to Qitai, and if possible, you will understand what I mean."
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However, ten minutes later, the flight route was approved, and Xu Cang, who was well prepared, took off normally. The route from Shule to Qitai was so short that after leaving the control tower of Shule, he immediately transferred to the control tower of Qitai Airport.
As Chen Guoli said, the route was exactly the same as J212. However, once the plane passed the main range of the Tianshan Mountains, it immediately switched to radar guidance.
Since Chen Guoli had flown once, Xu Cang was lazy and handed over the controls to Chen Guoli after takeoff. It was not until the landing configuration was established on the fifth side that Xu Cang took over the controls.
"Gust of 19 meters." Feeling that the plane seemed to be about to overturn, Xu Cang was quite helpless.
Strictly speaking, gusts are not considered in the wind volume limit. For example, according to regulations, for a dry runway, the crosswind limit for a 737 is 15 meters. In the minds of ordinary people, since it is a gust, it can come from any direction, naturally including crosswind, so a gust of 19 meters is excessive.
But in reality, gusts are not taken into consideration, only steady winds are taken into consideration, which is a bit like a shower.
Xu Cang could stabilize the plane on a standard glide path in a gust of 19 meters, but he couldn't stop the plane from shaking violently, which made Xu Cang uncomfortable. Moreover, there were passengers sitting in the back, and a poor riding experience would not be a good thing.
At an altitude of nearly 1,000 feet, Xu Cang was controlling the plane and even had enough energy to look to the right. Sure enough, there was a canyon on the right. Although the bottom of the canyon was not lush, it was obviously covered with vegetation.
In the snowy surroundings, the vegetation at the bottom of the valley is somewhat conspicuous.
Not only that, but thick towering clouds were gathering on top of the mountains to the left of the canyon, which was not a good sign.
"It looks like the downstream rapids will be stronger soon." Xu Cang said suddenly.
"Ah?" Chen Guoli on the left was extremely nervous at the moment. He had no energy to look outside. How could he have imagined that Xu Cang was looking outside just now.
Xu Cang retracted his gaze and looked at the instrument: "It's okay."
Chen Guoli's exclamation just now was truly full of nervousness, so I should not make things difficult for him.
Five hundred feet high!
Xu Cang looked at the runway surface. It seemed that Qitai Airport had already prepared for Xu Cang and his team's arrival. The snow on the runway surface had been cleared to both sides. At least from a visual point of view, the middle part of the runway was just a wet runway, probably with some snow and water at most.
"It looks like the road surface is in good condition!"
If it was just snow and water, it would not actually have such a fatal impact on the friction coefficient of the runway.
Perhaps because of the last experience, Chen Guoli remained unusually vigilant about the Qitai runway: "It's still not visible now, but I'm afraid the snow and water will freeze into ice."
Generally speaking, bright ice is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye and can only be identified by touch.
If the snow and water on the road surface freezes into ice, it will be dangerous for the aircraft. Chen Guoli suggested that it is better to be conservative and just straighten the plane in the air, so that it does not matter whether there is ice on the road surface or not.
If the aircraft were to straighten its stance after landing, and if the wheel on the landing side happened to press on the ice, the situation that Chen Guoli had encountered before would be repeated, causing a relatively obvious and difficult to control side slip.
Xu Cang just nodded, at an altitude of fifty feet. At this moment, the plane had already entered the air above the runway. Xu Cang observed the runway surface and indeed could not see clearly with the naked eye whether there was ice or not. He simply did not take any more risks. At an altitude of twenty feet, he slightly distinguished the amount of intersection, and at ten feet, he pressed down the left rudder and the right rudder at the same time, and the plane was straightened in an instant.
Moreover, Xu Cang grasped the timing perfectly. At the moment when the nose of the plane was straightened, the two main wheels of the plane touched the ground at the same time, with almost no gap between them.
Xu Cang pedaled very straight, but after landing, the plane still shook slightly.
Xu Cang raised his eyebrows: "So slippery?"
Fortunately, the shaking of the plane only lasted for a moment and was quickly stabilized by Xu Cang.
"The airport must have calculated the time for de-icing, but the secondary icing happened too quickly and it was impossible to prevent it." Chen Guoli was a little worried: "If we return with a single engine later, we have to consider this issue as well."
Xu Cang looked outside at the sky, which was dark: "Why do I feel like the snow is going to get heavier again?"
"Want to postpone it?"
"No need for that. This kind of weather is basically common at the airport."
They can choose the weather, but if something happens later, they can't also choose the time, right?
After leaving the runway, the plane slid onto the apron. Qitai Airport has only four parking spaces, and none of them have jet bridges. After arriving at the designated location under the guidance of ground personnel, the brakes were turned off.
Xu Cang made preparations without stopping. Since the landing was successful, the fuel on the plane was sufficient. However, since the total weight of the plane had changed, the manifest needed to be recalculated, so he had to wait.
The single-engine program has been uploaded into the aircraft's database. However, due to the urgency of the time, there is no automatic pop-up function. If it is a single-engine flight, the crew needs to manually call it up.
However, there was no departure procedure for Qitai Airport in the database, so if one wanted to adjust the procedure, there was only the single-engine procedure, so there was no need to worry about adjusting it incorrectly. Even the data for the four-character code of Qitai Airport was temporarily uploaded by the National University Technical Department. Otherwise, even the four-character code of Qitai Airport could not be entered on the CDU.
Moreover, after this single-shot verification is completed, the relevant data needs to be deleted.
Xu Cang was preparing the CDU, while Chen Guoli was working on the panel. As they were working, there was a knock on the hatch. Xu Cang looked out the left side window and saw that the passenger elevator was approaching, so he opened the hatch's safety lock.
The hatch opened, revealing Bi Lin's figure.
"Xu Cang, you were shaken pretty hard just now, are you in trouble?"
Xu Cang turned around and looked at the direction of the voice, only to see a group of people standing behind Bi Lin, namely Yue Sheng and others.
"It's okay. It's better when it's difficult. I've flown the most difficult one, and people will know what to do later." Xu Cang said with a smile.
"Okay, let's face the challenge! However, this time we are just conducting a verification flight. If you really encounter a difficult problem, don't hesitate and restart the engine!" Bi Lin reminded.
Xu Cang hummed: "I know."
Generally speaking, if the aircraft is below 25,000 feet, the chance of restarting the engine is very high. Besides, this time the engine was only shut down manually, and the engine was not really damaged, so it is not difficult to restart it.
This is just a single-engine verification. If everything goes well, it probably won't exceed 25,000 feet. As long as Xu Cang reacts quickly enough and verifies the patch during the flight, he can always save his life.
This was Bi Lin’s final instructions to Xu Cang.
After that, Bi Lin led everyone off the plane. The car that picked them up did not take them to a resting place, but took a group of people except Di Qingquan to the bottom of the tower. During the verification period, these people would be in the tower control room.
Di Qingquan had caught a cold recently, so he decided not to stay at the airport. Instead, he was taken by car to a courtyard at the bottom of the valley, which was warmer there and was usually a resting place for airport staff.
About fifteen minutes later, the airport sent Xu Cang the manifest, along with a Qitai Airport takeoff performance analysis sheet. This analysis sheet was only used to allow Xu Cang and his team to calculate the takeoff speed, and then the airport staff took it away.
Everything was ready. After the maintenance staff completed the final inspection, the passenger elevator was withdrawn and the cabin door was closed by Chen Guoli.
"Remember your words, everything is up to me." Xu Cang said again: "No matter what decision I may make."
Chen Guoli was startled. He instinctively felt that Xu Cang had something else in his words. However, since things had come to this point, Chen Guoli did not hold back at this juncture. He just nodded heavily: "I understand."
"Okay, start the engine!"
Although it is a single-engine verification, it is not the case that the taxiing is done with a single engine. Later during the takeoff run, Chen Guoli will manually cut off one engine.
The engine started normally, and Xu Cang steered the plane onto the runway. Since Qitai Airport only had one runway, after the plane entered the runway, it slid all the way to the starting point and then turned 180 degrees.
Less than half an hour after passing the station, the snow seemed to have gotten much heavier. The airport had clearly sprinkled some de-icing fluid during this period, but a thin layer of white blood began to cover the center of the runway again.
Snowflakes fell onto the windshield and turned into water droplets, the density of which was so high that it affected the crew's vision.
Aligning with the runway, Xu Cang roughly identified the runway. The center line marking was not very clear, but it was still roughly distinguishable. It should be enough to serve as a basis for judging the take-off direction.
"Wipers high!"
Xu Cang held the steering wheel with one hand and the thrust handle with the other. Under normal circumstances, Chen Guoli should control the thrust handle, but under special circumstances, it is safer to let Xu Cang control it himself to avoid unexpected problems.
"Please take off."
Chen Guoli nodded: "Tower, 1533, get ready, requesting takeoff."
"1533, surface wind 320/19, caution: slippery surface, runway 28, clear for takeoff."
"Let's go!" Xu Cang increased the thrust of his left hand to forty-five, and at the same time, his right hand opened and closed slightly a few times, as if to relieve the tension in his heart.
When N1 reached 45 and stabilized, Chen Guoli shouted, "Stable!"
"Go!" Xu Cang pressed the TO/GA switches at the same time, and the thrust of the twin engines increased immediately, and the plane began to accelerate continuously.
Shortly after passing the 80th section, Chen Guoli suddenly asked, "Cut it?"
"cut!"
Chen Guoli did not hesitate and did not even turn the thrust handle of the No. 1 engine to slow speed. He directly put the starting handle of the No. 1 engine to the cut-off position.
In an instant, the No. 1 engine was shut down, and the aircraft suddenly had a thrust difference. On such a slippery road surface, this situation was actually quite dangerous. However, Xu Cang only let the aircraft shake slightly, and then firmly controlled the taxiing direction within the center line range.
"What a handsome correction!"
Whether it was the coordination of the lever and rudder in the air when landing just now, or the control of the direction of takeoff at this moment, Xu Cang has reached the level of perfection. If he does it a hundred times, Xu Cang is confident that he can control the error within one degree.
Xu Cang didn't consider controlling the direction of takeoff as a difficult point. The difficulty came later.
Soon, the aircraft accelerated to the rotation speed.
Following Chen Guoli's command to raise the wheel, Xu Cang raised the head at a slightly slower rate than usual. In the case of a single engine, the rate of raising the head cannot be too fast, otherwise it is easy to scratch the tail. This is somewhat similar to the principle of zero-altitude go-around. Both are side effects caused by forcibly raising the wheel due to insufficient thrust.
Xu Cang's technique was quite standard, and the aircraft's attitude gradually increased to seven degrees, which was the recommended pitch attitude for a single engine. Moreover, I don't know if it was because Xu Cang was lucky, but after the heavy snow, the wind seemed to be a little weaker.
This news is undoubtedly great for Xu Cang.
At this moment, a minibus had reached the bottom of the valley. It was the one that took Di Qingquan.
When he arrived at the destination, Di Qingquan saw a small courtyard with bungalows on two sides and a two-story building on the other side.
"Just go to the second floor of the small building in the middle. The room number is 204. Here is the key." The driver handed the room key to Di Qingquan with a smile: "If you want to go back to the airport, just call the airport. However, the environment here is bad and sometimes the phone can't get through. I will come to pick you up in an hour at the latest."
In one hour, no matter what the verification flight results are, it should be over.
"Okay, thank you for your help!" Di Qingquan took the key and put it away.
The driver opened the car door. Di Qingquan wrapped himself in clothes and just as he stepped out, he felt a gust of wind sweeping past him and he could hardly stand.
“What a strong wind!”