Chapter 6: Surviving a Disaster
The flight academy will give students scores based on their overall performance during their studies when they graduate, so that airlines can evaluate the value of the graduates.
According to the 100-point system, a score of over 80 is considered upper-middle level, and if you can reach 90 points, you will basically be cultivated as a good candidate by the airline.
The Flight Academy had been established for more than 50 years, and no graduate had ever received a full score until Xu Cang appeared.
Xu Cang is the student who took the shortest time to enter the private pilot stage, flew solo the fastest, and completed his studies the fastest in the history of the flight academy. The reason why it is difficult to score full is that not only the evaluation of the instructors in the academy will affect the graduation score, but also the evaluation of the inspectors in the assessment of private pilot, instrument rating and commercial pilot will have a key impact.
There is a possibility that the evaluation of the instructors within the academy is interfered by other factors, but many of the inspectors for license assessment are not affiliated with the flight academy and will basically not be interfered with. Moreover, these inspectors basically have bad tempers. It is considered good enough if they can let you pass, and they will give you a perfect evaluation without any flaws?
But Xu Cang did it!
It was precisely because of Xu Cang's unprecedented perfect graduation evaluation that Blue Sky Airlines tolerated him so much. Otherwise, given Xu Cang's bad behavior after joining the company, he would have been fired long ago. Why would they give him so many opportunities?
Xu Cang was silent. He didn't know how to answer Wang Qiang's words. The reason why his parents forced him to learn to fly was simple, that is, they heard that civil aviation pilots had high salaries. As for Xu Cang's idea, it was not within their consideration.
Being a pilot is a job that can be considered a lifelong career, and his parents made the decision for Xu Cang arbitrarily. Xu Cang is very smart, and smart people usually have some personality, especially when they are still young.
Therefore, the best graduate in the history of the Flight Academy also created a history of failing three consecutive proficiency checks when he arrived at Blue Sky Airlines.
People always grow up. After his mother passed away, all the resentment, no matter how big it was, disappeared. Therefore, after being reborn, Xu Cang did not blame his parents who had worked in the fields all their lives.
"Is it not too late to change it now?" Xu Cang was actually still somewhat happy that God had given him a chance to start over.
Wang Qiang was filled with regret: "There is no medicine for regret in the world..."
"Is there no medicine for regret?" Xu Cang murmured softly, and it seemed that there was.
Just as Xu Cang was about to leave, he suddenly thought of something and asked Wang Qiang with a suspicious look on his face: "Instructor, did you feel any problem with the plane we just flew?"
"Hmm?" Wang Qiang frowned. "That plane is a new one that just arrived not long ago. What's the problem? What do you want to say?"
Xu Cang saw Wang Qiang's expression and knew that the instructor thought he was still making excuses for the tail strike, so he didn't say anything else. Maybe it was really just his own control error.
After saying goodbye to Wang Qiang, Xu Cang planned to go back and pack his things before going back to his hometown. Before leaving, he had to return his flight certificate to Blue Sky Airlines. Because when Blue Sky Airlines recruited Xu Cang to the company, it paid all his training fees to the flight academy. If he wanted to leave, the airline would not stop him, but he had to leave all kinds of flight certificates.
When he got downstairs, Xu Cang 's cell phone suddenly rang in his bag. He took it out and saw that it was his father's call. He answered the call immediately, and there was a hint of anxiety in his voice: "Dad, what's wrong?"
Because of the long-distance charges, his father would not call him unless it was something urgent.
"Son, your mother has been sent to the hospital and is still being treated!" The anxious voice of his father Xu Zhenming came from the phone: "This morning, your mother said she couldn't breathe. I thought it was an old problem, but she just fainted."
Xu Cang's steps suddenly stopped: "What did the doctor say?"
"A doctor coming out of the emergency room said something like fibrosis. What does that mean?"
"Fibrosis?" Xu Cang's eyes widened instantly. In his previous life, his mother's condition deteriorated rapidly, causing severe pulmonary fibrosis and she died. However, shouldn't pulmonary fibrosis take another two years to develop? How could it deteriorate so quickly?
Although his parents concealed his illness out of fear that Xu Cang would worry, they would not hide it if it was really serious. He had not heard any news about his mother's worsening condition, which showed that lung disease deteriorated rapidly in a short period of time.
"Why is this happening?" Xu Cang's mind was in a mess. If it really reached the stage of pulmonary fibrosis, the situation would be very serious and a lung transplant would be necessary. However, not to mention that he did not have the money to pay for a lung transplant, even if he did , in Xu Cang's memory, the success rate of lung transplants in this era was still unknown.
Xu Cang's heart was pounding: "Could it be that my rebirth has caused some bad changes?"
Originally, he was thought to have two years left, but now given his mother's condition, he's not sure even a year is enough.
"Dad, how much money is left at home?"
Xu Zhenming did not hide it: "I estimate there are still 20,000 or 30,000, at most 30,000."
"Thirty thousand?" It was just as he remembered. There was no money at home at that time, and he had been receiving a basic salary and had not saved much. Compared with a lung transplant surgery that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, it was simply a drop in the bucket.
At this moment, Xu Cang was in a state of panic. His mother's condition was completely beyond his expectations. Even if he was reborn, how could he come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars in such a short time?
Xu Cang forced himself to calm down: "Dad, you just stay in the hospital and watch. When Mom's condition stabilizes, ask the doctor if she needs a lung transplant and what difficulties the operation will have. I'll be home tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest."
In this era, there are not many flight routes, and some routes are not available every day, so Xu Cang needs to consult.
After hanging up the phone, Xu Cang was in a state of confusion, and he couldn't find a solution to the problem. He hadn't had time to take advantage of the information gap in his rebirth, and he was facing such a huge crisis. What should he do?
There was no time to worry about anything else. Even if I stayed in the company as a pilot, I wouldn't be able to raise enough money for the surgery in less than a year. The golden age of civil aviation had not yet arrived, and pilots' salaries had not yet exploded.
He will go back to his residence and return the documents first, so that Blue Sky Airlines won’t have to bother him when he returns.
Just as Xu Cang walked to the door of the base building, he heard a ding-dong sound. Some metal brackets were erected outside the base building, and workers were working on them, probably repairing the outer wall.
At the gate, a middle-aged woman was walking in front of Xu Cang with a big bag. But when she walked out of the building, she tripped over something and fell down, and many things that looked like invitations fell out of her bag.
Xu Cang was walking in a hurry. When he passed by the middle-aged woman, he hesitated for a moment, but still walked past her without saying a word. However, after walking only two steps, Xu Cang felt uncomfortable, so he stopped and planned to turn back to help the woman pick up her things.
Just as Xu Cang was about to turn around, a one-meter-long steel pipe fell from the sky and landed just two or three steps in front of Xu Cang.
