Chapter 28 This is my twenty years of skill
As the flaps were continuously extended, the aircraft still had a continuous upward moment, and the aircraft's gradually accelerating sinking rate was stopped in time, and even began to gradually turn into a normal descent rate.
According to Xu Cang's calculations, the flaps will be fully extended when the plane is about to touch down, and the two will work together very well.
At an altitude of fifty feet, the plane barely entered the airspace above the runway, which was considered a standard approach altitude. However, it was almost touching the ground, and the crosswind was still extremely strong, with the angle between the nose of the plane and the runway exceeding forty degrees.
In Qin Xin's field of vision, a huge aircraft was slowly descending with a noticeable tilted fuselage, giving a feeling of being overwhelmed by a mountain.
"Is this normal?" The secretary looked at the Feiyu 6321 plane with a bit of doubt. In her opinion, the plane was almost landing, but it was not aligned with the runway, which was not consistent with her imagination.
"It depends on his skills. He only has one chance to steer in mid-air when landing in a strong crosswind." Qin Xin knew clearly that she was just a spectator, but for some reason, she became nervous involuntarily, and her five white jade fingers clenched tightly together.
The key to landing in a strong crosswind is to straighten the deviated nose of the plane at the moment of landing. This is a very skill-intensive step, and pushing too much or too little can be fatal.
Under normal circumstances, if the pilots found that they did not steer the plane properly, they could just go around and try again. But Feiyu Flight 6321 was a one-shot deal. They only had one chance to either land perfectly or run off the runway.
Not only Qin Xin's secretary had doubts, even the captain in the cockpit was unsure. With such a large drift angle, he couldn't guarantee whether he could get it right.
"Can you handle it?" Although the captain's tone was normal, asking such a question at this juncture showed that he was actually quite unconfident.
The plane is almost leveling off, wouldn't it be interfering with Xu Cang's operations if he suddenly said something like this?
However, Xu Cang just replied calmly: "It's okay!"
The captain didn't know why Xu Cang was so calm, as if landing in such a strong crosswind was nothing special. But perhaps affected by Xu Cang's emotions, the captain's frantically beating heart finally calmed down a little.
Without looking back, the captain did his job conscientiously. Fifty feet was the starting altitude for leveling. Following Xu Cang's previous request, the captain quickly turned off all the fuel pumps. Anyway, both engines had been shut down, so it didn't matter whether the fuel pumps were turned on or not. It was purely to prevent the danger of fuel leakage in the event of a grounding problem.
However, just as the captain turned off the last fuel pump switch and Xu Cang had already started to level the plane, the aircraft, which had originally tilted its nose to the right, suddenly made a strange roll to the left, so large that the tip of the left wing of the aircraft almost touched the ground first.
"What's going on?" The captain was so shocked by the sudden change that he instinctively held his breath .
Such an obvious change in state really caught him off guard. Even though the tower reported gusts of more than ten meters, generally speaking, at such an ultra-low altitude, the airflow is affected by the terrain and the wind speed is not only lower, but it is always more stable, and such strong turbulence will not occur.
At this moment, the nose of the plane was tilted to the right, but the wings were rolling to the left, and the whole plane was in an extremely strange state. If the tip of the left wing touched the ground first, it would definitely be inserted into the soil, and then the whole plane would be thrown off the runway.
But if you press the plate to the right, given the already huge drift angle, this will most likely cause the nose of the aircraft to deviate further to the right and make it impossible to correct.
In this way, once the plane touches down, it will not face the center line of the runway, but will rush directly to the right side of the runway.
Without power, the crew could not stop the plane from sinking by pushing the throttle hard to give the pilot more reaction time. Or, they could just give up everything and push the throttle up, giving up everything and trying again.
Unfortunately, Xu Cang and the others had no choice.
One second! No, less than one second! The captain's mind went blank. How could he turn the tide in such a short time?
So, Xu Cang showed him what miraculous skills were!
Under normal circumstances, the rudder in a strong crosswind should be pushed straight after one of the landing gear main wheels touches the ground. This is a safer approach. Because when one of the landing gear main wheels touches the ground, the ground friction comes into play, and there will be a point of force and a reference point when pushing the rudder, which is always easier. If you push the rudder completely in the air, you may not know whether you push too much or too little.
However, at this time Xu Cang did not have time to wait for the engine's main wheels to touch the ground. He needed to turn the plane over in the air. Moreover, he not only had to straighten the plane, but also needed to stop the plane from rolling!
What is rod-rudder coordination? No trial, no experimentation, it’s a one-time deal!
Without any hesitation, Xu Cang pushed on the left rudder with such great force that he almost instantly straightened the deviated nose of the plane, and pushed it straight back to the center line of the runway.
At the same time as his foot moved, Xu Cang pressed the right pressure plate to the bottom, and the aircraft's control wheel was almost perpendicular to the ground. This not only stopped the danger of abnormal rolling, but also offset the leftward movement of the aircraft caused by the hard push on the left rudder, and pinned the aircraft firmly to the center line of the runway.
In Qin Xin's vision, in just one or two seconds, a scene that she would never forget appeared. The nose of the plane was originally tilted to the right, and the left wing was sinking. In an instant, the nose of the plane drifted in the air and corrected, and the wing became horizontal in an instant.
The magnitude of the correction was so great that Qin Xin felt that what she saw was not a 60-ton behemoth, but a small toy that she could manipulate at will. This unrealistic feeling inevitably gave her a sense of fantasy.
"How could this be possible?" Qin Xin's rosy lips opened slightly, as if she had seen the most unreasonable thing in the world. What she saw was truly like the sky falling and the earth collapsing, piercing her soul.
Beside her, the secretary's eyes widened and he murmured, "How did they do that?"
In the cockpit, the captain almost couldn't help but let out a long whistle. This push on the rudder, this pressure plate condensed Xu Cang's strength for the next twenty years. Anyone who saw it would be in awe of him.
However, this correction directly consumed the last bit of energy of the plane. In the last twenty feet, the plane almost fell straight down. The left landing gear of the plane touched the ground first, and the huge and almost immeasurable falling energy was all concentrated on the tire of the left landing gear.
Bang!
The tire couldn't withstand such a huge force and exploded the moment it touched the ground!
