Chapter 461: A Night Voyage with Twists and Turns
The morning episode did not have a great impact on the flight plan, the fighters were okay and no one was fine, and there was no reason to postpone the next flight.
With the current equipment and technical conditions, it is extremely risky to take off at night and drill into the mountain, and it is not possible to do so unless it is absolutely necessary. At the tourist airport, there is no flight plan between 30 a.m. and 7 a.m., so this period of time is a time window that can be used at the Central South Station.
In other words, the fighters at the Zhongnan Field Station can take off normally.
But Li Zhan's task is not so simple, since it is to test and explore the way to take off under any conditions, then it is necessary to make various attempts, just like when he was engaged in low-altitude penetration, he has to fly out of the data and fly out of the envelope.
There are three contents at night, and one is more difficult than the other.
The first item is the same as the daytime, after leaving the ground, turn westward to climb through a line of Tianhou, the second item is to turn east to fly to Tianmen Mountain, but it can be pulled high soon so there is no need to walk through the mountain, and the third item is the easiest, according to the normal take-off route to fly north to south.
The fact that there are more night flights than during the day is entirely due to the fact that they have to take care of the normal transportation plan of tourist airports, and in non-war times, the troops have to compromise with local economic construction as much as possible. If economic construction is not done well, there will be no basic national defense construction, and the two are successively and mutually reinforcing.
There was a drizzle in the sky, a gentle and dense rain unique to winter.
Li Zhan was eating a meal with a lunch box in the flight briefing room, and when he saw the hazy appearance outside the window, he hurriedly got up and walked out, and Zhang Wei also followed out with a lunch box when he saw this.
The two stood under the eaves outside the door to observe the weather, it was more than ten o'clock in the evening, the tower was lit on this side, there were several warning lights on both sides, and they could see that under the light was a gray patch, like gauze, the temperature seemed to be lower, and the biting chill made people's teeth tremble up and down.
Li Zhan raised his wrist and saw that the temperature displayed on the multi-functional mechanical watch was 3 degrees Celsius.
"Looks like it's going to snow." Li Zhan said worriedly.
Zhang Wei said, "The meteorological observatory can't predict accurately, and the weather in the mountains changes too quickly." ”
The flight weather forecast showed that there would be no wind and snow tonight, which was suitable for flying, and there was no mention of rain, but it started to rain before the early hours of the morning, and the situation changed somewhat.
Li Zhan said, "I hope that when we fly, the rain will stop and the wind will go out." ”
"Don't think about it, whether you can fly or not is the leader's business, hurry up and rest after supper." Zhang Wei turned around and returned to the house with the lunch box in his hand, and suddenly warmed up.
In-flight meals are abundant, and even to a certain extent, in-flight meals are more important than meals. In many cases, the work and rest of air force pilots cannot be carried out in accordance with the daily life system, and sometimes night flights will be carried out in the early hours of the morning, such as Li Zhan and Zhang Wei's mission tonight, how to let the pilots maintain sufficient physical strength in abnormal hours, the support department needs to work hard.
Returning to his seat, Li Zhan sorted out the rest of the meal, neatly cleaned it up, washed it directly in the washbasin in the corner, wiped it clean with a dry towel, put it in a warm bag with a lunch box labeled "Li Zhan", and put it in the locker.
After doing this, I started to worry again, and put out the charts to study.
Zhang Wei came over and said, "You have seen it hundreds of times, and you can still see that the flowers are not coming." ”
"Otherwise, what would you do?" Li Zhan said, "Waiting is really torturous. ”
"There has been important weather these days, and it is already very risky for the division not to cancel the flight plan, so don't worry about it. What can you do in such weather conditions? Zhang Wei said.
Li Zhan sighed lightly and said, "To be honest, if you are in Beiku, this kind of weather is exciting. At that time, we were engaged in combat training under low meteorological conditions, so we specially selected important weather to fly, and we came over smoothly. ”
"It's different." Zhang Wei said, "Don't you know what the situation is in the mountainous areas of the central and southern regions, and you almost hit the drone released by the local people in the morning, will you encounter it in Beiku?" The population density in the Beiku area is sparse, there are few people for hundreds of kilometers, and there are very few human interference factors. Not here, you fly over your head in the mountainous countryside without paying attention. ”
Zhang Wei patted Li Zhan on the shoulder and said, "I'll sleep for a while, don't sit still, hurry up and rest." ”
Li Zhan waved his hand.
Zhang Wei went to the shelf bed in the lounge inside, and lay down in his clothes and closed his eyes, and after a while, a slight snoring sounded.
Li Zhan especially wanted to go to the tarmac to see the situation of the fighters, but he had to stay in the flight briefing room and wait, and he would not go anywhere until the order came down, which made him feel helpless. It was really hard to think about it, so I simply ran to the lounge and lay down to rest.
The staff on duty on the tower were busy, Tang Guozheng was standing behind the meteorologist with his arms crossed, staring at the weather radar screen with a serious expression, and the other monitor showed the real-time weather satellite picture connected to it. The changes are not very large, with large clouds covering the central and southern regions, forming a loose spiral, and over the western part of the South China Sea, the intensity of tropical storms is increasing, which is very strange compared to previous years. Generally speaking, the last typhoon of the year occurs in November and December, if there is any, but this year there is a typhoon weather after New Year's Day. In the time just after New Year's Day and before the Spring Festival.
Tropical storms have a great impact on the cold air from the south, which is the biggest cause of ice and snow disasters in the south.
"It's snowing! Report! Chief of Staff, it's snowing. A staff officer rushed in and reported.
Tang Guozheng hurriedly looked up, and the drizzle turned into light snow, and the gray snowflakes that appeared under the light were very clear.
"What's the temperature?" Tang Guozheng asked.
The weatherman quickly refreshed the data and said, "minus 3.5." ”
Tang Guozheng sighed and said, "Cancel the flight, and various departments cancel flight preparations." ”
"Yes!"
Flying at low altitudes in the mountains, the weather conditions in front of you obviously pose a great challenge, and this risk cannot be taken seriously.
The order was sent to the flight briefing room, Li Zhan and Zhang Wei disarmed in disappointment and returned to the infield halfway up the mountain, and once again entered a state of standby at any time.
On this night, the weather in the central and southern regions deteriorated suddenly, and the snowfall increased sharply, and the gusts of wind reached level 11 at one point. That night, the central and southern regions were hit by severe snow, ice and strong winds. After passing through the mountainous areas, high-voltage wire supports, communication towers, and houses on the mountains collapsed and damaged countless times, and by dawn, the maximum snowfall recorded a terrifying value of 27 centimeters, which is once in a century in the central and southern regions.
If the ice and snow disaster in the past few days has brought great trouble to the spring transportation in the southern region, especially in the central and southern regions, then the sudden change in weather that night has dealt a critical blow to these regions, all transportation routes have been suspended, and the major railway stations that are trying to restore passenger transportation capacity have fallen into an even more difficult situation overnight. The sudden change has attracted the attention of the state department, and a series of emergency measures have been implemented.
So let alone flying, it's difficult to go out.
At noon the next day, the snow stopped, and Li Zhan and the aircrew took their shovels and followed out to clear the snow in the outfield, and the entire station was mobilized to carry out an anti-ice disaster operation. Whether it can fly or not is one thing, but it is necessary to ensure that the Central South Station can accept alternate aircraft at any time.
What happened in the past few days has changed some of Li Zhan's preconceived notions. First of all, he fully felt the great difference between the climate of the north and the south, and secondly, he deeply felt how weak many human efforts are in the face of nature. Last but not least, he found that the Air Force lacked effective early warning and control tools in response to sudden weather events.
In his free time, he asked Zhang Yuan to analyze the weather data of many times he conducted combat training under low meteorological conditions during the Eagle Falcon Brigade, and compared the data of the Second Division and the specific measures taken by both sides.
After carefully recalling the situation of combat training under ultra-low meteorological conditions in the past, and then comparing the situation on the side of the Second Division, Li Zhan sighed, and under such circumstances, he found that the combat training standards of the 101st Brigade under ultra-low meteorological conditions far exceeded those of other units. He also realized that it was probably because he was accustomed to the atmosphere of combat training in Beiku, and after coming to the second division, it was like a college student attending a class for elementary school students, and he was at a loss all of a sudden, so he felt irritable.
However, he was also soberly aware that this was the overall environment of the entire Air Force, and that the change would start in Beiku, and it would take a process to affect the entire army. After figuring it out, he was relieved and listened to the arrangement of the second division with peace of mind, instead of putting forward his own suggestions in disregard as before.
This is not the 101st Brigade, and there will be no more Xue Xiangping who will support him no matter what.
He waited with peace of mind until January 15, the night before the new year, when the order for a night flight was given again. By this time, Li Zhan's original plan had been completely disrupted. He learned that the Flying Shark training selection had ended, and he had not missed the postponed Beiku Competition, but it seemed that he had missed the 2011 Flying Shark training selection.
This is more or less a pity.
The date for him to go to the Flying Shark training team has become far away, the J-16 actual combat test flight work has not yet begun, and the flight mission here at Zhongnan Station will take at least half a month, but the Spring Festival in 2012 is not far away.
This makes Li Zhan suffer from gains and losses, or give up the opportunity to go to the Flying Shark training team to return to Beiku? Even if you can't go back to Beiku, it's not bad to be transferred to other units of the Air Force. The thought in his heart is that staying in the Air Force has the opportunity to fly the fourth-generation aircraft and has a great chance, after all, his strength is there, and if he goes to the HNA Airlines, he will have the opportunity to climb to the highest peak of pilots and be called one of the knife dancers.
On one side is the most advanced fourth-generation aircraft, and on the other side is the carrier-based flight that can best reflect its own value.
He seemed to have returned to the dilemma he had when he left the army.
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