The work content of the commander is very simple, he only needs to take the intercom and report the information given by the staff officers to the pilots, and the other work is actually done by the staff officers, such as the planning of routes and the collection of meteorological data......

However, as a commander, the responsibility is very heavy, and if nothing happens, he will wait to be punished. Suppose the information given by the staff officer is wrong, and the commander does not find out, resulting in an accident, the first person responsible must be the commander.

Second, the commander needs to have strong courage and be able to make decisions on the spot, and the most important thing to command in the tower is hesitation. The pilot flew a few hundred meters in the sky in one second, and after a few seconds of hesitation, the daylilies may be cold.

"821 calls the tower, the second squadron ground target training is over, and the return is requested, over."

There was a call from the headset, it was the voice of Zhu Fanyou, the leader of the second squadron of the second brigade, Yang Luo had dealt with him once, and he still remembered his voice.

At the same time, Zhu Fanyou's call also sounded in the loudspeaker on the tower, and the staff officers immediately crackled and tapped on the keyboard, calculated a group of data, and finally summarized it on the display screen in front of Yang Luo's eyes.

"The tower received, the course is two or five four, the height is eight thousand, 821, the second squadron can return, over." Yang Luo looked at the display screen in front of him, put the intercom to his mouth, pressed the call button, and responded.

"Crazy, why are you commanding at the tower?" Zhu Fanyou said, obviously surprised.

Yang Luo chuckled: "Why can't it be me?" ”

"You were still on your way back when I came up, but it's a little strange that you returned to the station so quickly, and you were still commanding in the runway tower." Zhu Fanyou said with a smile.

"Yang Luo, you are not allowed to chat in the communication channel." Yu Yangming, the chief of staff on the side, reminded.

Hu Zhongming raised his head and looked at Yang Luo, without saying a word, and then leaned on the backrest and pretended to sleep.

Yang Luo knew the rules prohibiting chatting in the communication channel, and he was a little forgetful just now, and he forgot it for a while.

At that moment, Yang Luo said solemnly: "821, don't chat in the communication channel." “

The military secret communication channel fell silent for a moment, no one spoke again, and a long wait followed.

More than 20 minutes later, the roar of the engine sounded in the air, and at the same time, Zhu Fanyou called again from the headset: "Call the tower, 821 has arrived at the station, request to land, over." “

Yang Luo picked up the intercom, looked at the data on the display screen in front of him, and said: "The tower received, the wind direction is 167, the wind speed is 4 meters and seconds, the field pressure is 1004, the No. 1 and No. 2 runways have been cleared, and 821 can land." Complete. “

"821 understood, over."

From the tower, you can already see four fighters appearing over the station, flying from a distance, the flight trajectory is parallel to the runway, and it is necessary to fly four turns over the station before landing.

In non-emergency situations, in order to ensure flight safety, airplanes need to fly around the field, which is called five-sided flight in civil aviation, but in military aviation units, it is not called five-sided, but depends on the turning angle. If you fly parallel to the runway, you will make four turns, and if you fly perpendicular to the runway, you will make one less turn and fly three turns.

The first bend is to fly parallel to the runway once, turn at an angle of 90 degrees, and then the course is perpendicular to the runway and fly straight. And so on, every 90-degree angle is called a turn, the fourth turn ends, and the return to the starting course lands.

The third turn is to omit the first turn, start directly from the second turn, and the final course is perpendicular to the course when flying over.

Of course, in an emergency, all steps are omitted and the land is made directly.

"Tower, we've put up the landing gear, over." 821 reported that it had made the second turn, and the course was parallel to the runway, allowing the tower to observe the landing gear.

The staff officer, who was holding a military telescope to observe the situation of the aircraft, reported: "The landing gear is lowered normally. ”

Yang Luo pressed the call button and reported: "821, the landing gear is lowered normally, over." ”

The four fighters returned to the initial course, lowered their heads with the levers, landed in formation, and finally elegantly raised the nose slightly and landed on the ground, the main landing gear in the belly landed first, and the nose landing gear was lowered after gliding for a certain distance. Braking, releasing the parachute, taxiing on the runway slower and slower, and then driving to the tarmac under the command of the flag.

In the next hour, he directed the remaining twelve planes to land in turn, and there were no problems during the period, which was considered to have completed the initial command in a decent manner.

It was almost time for lunch, and just as Yang Luo took off his headphones and was about to leave the tower, a voice came from the loudspeaker of the tower: "Dongling Tower, this is Beizhi." ”

Hearing this, Yang Luo stopped his movements, put the headphones back on, and replied, "Dongling Tower received, please instruct." ”

"At 12:22, a transport plane passed by, please send an aircraft to escort you, and the specific information has been sent to you."

"Dongling Tower understands."

The display screen in front of Yang Luo's eyes has already shown the information sent by the North Finger, which contains the flow of the entire mission, as well as the basic information and route of the aircraft.

This is an Il-76 transport plane, coming from the woolly bear, what is being transported is unknown, and the destination is unknown. Judging by the route, it was necessary to cross the entire defense zone of the 122 regiment.

Arrived in China's airspace at 12:22, and it was almost 12 o'clock now, and the time was relatively tight. And all the planes in the air have landed, and if you want to complete the escort mission, you can only notify the combat readiness duty.

Without hesitation, Yang Luo directly pressed the air situation alarm button.

"Woo......"

A hurried sound immediately sounded over the station, and at the same time, the alarm in the combat readiness duty room also sounded, flashing with red light.

A short time later, a loudspeaker in the tower sounded a call.

"Call the tower, 781 is ready, request to take off, over."

"Call the tower, 782 is ready, request to take off, over."

Yang Luo was very surprised, there was no one in these two numbered regiments, and he immediately reacted, these should be the two fighters of the 121st regiment.

Changing defenses and garrisons for training also requires combat readiness duty, and it is impossible to just train.

"Yang Luo?" Yu Yangming saw that Yang Luo didn't respond immediately, and immediately shouted.

Yang Luo came back to his senses and responded: "The tower received, the wind direction is 167, the wind speed is 4 meters and seconds, and the field pressure is 1004. 781, 782 can take off, over. ”

After the two fighters roared off the ground, Yang Luo said again: "781, 782, heading 010, altitude 12000." This mission is an escort mission, and the specific mission information has been sent and completed. ”

The sending of task information is naturally completed by the staff officers, and Yang Luo does not need to do it himself.

Putting down the intercom in his hand, Yang Luo looked at the direction of the departure of the two fighters with some envy.

There is no easiest way for an air force to obtain a meritorious service medal than for escort, and the escort mission is successfully completed, and a third-class meritorious service cannot be run.

It was good luck that the two pilots of the 121st Regiment were able to reap such easy credit during the change of guard and stationed training.

Although the commanders and tower staff officers also have merit, they are collective, not individual.

Yu Yangming saw Yang Luo's thoughts at a glance and said: "Don't envy them, there are many escort missions in the regiment every year, and the pilots in the regiment who don't have a few third-class meritorious medals are numb." “

"It's really a full man, I don't know how hungry a man is hungry, and I don't have a third-class military merit medal." Yang Luo sneered.

Yang Luo turned his head, looked at Yu Yangming and said suspiciously: "A lot of escort missions? ”

"That's right, the troops on the border line have this benefit, if you look at our defense area, you will know how many transport planes pass through our defense area every year, and how many special planes are sent abroad by the country's military and political leaders, and they all need our escort."

Yang Luo glanced at the map of the defense area hanging on the wall, the geographical location was good, and it was on the border line, close to the hairy bear, and immediately understood.

Every year, a large number of military supplies are purchased from Mao Xiong, and these transport planes inevitably pass through the defense area of the 31st Division, and a large part of them pass through the defense area of the 122nd Regiment, plus the special plane of the team to visit Europe. Over the course of a year, there seem to be a lot of escort missions.

At 12:20, 781 reported: "Call the tower, 781 has arrived at the designated location, over." “

Yang Luo glanced at the radar next to him and replied, "781, hover and wait at the designated place, over." “

Two minutes later, the tower radar showed that there was already one more aircraft in the designated airspace, so the order was issued: "781, 782, join the formation, start the escort mission, over." “

In the following time, the two sides did not talk again, and Yang Luo kept looking at the radar display.

It wasn't until he saw from the radar that the escorted transport plane was about to leave the airspace of the defense zone that he ordered: "781, 782, the escort mission is over, leave the formation and return home, and then a brother unit will take over the escort, over." ”

"781 understood, broke away from the formation and returned."

"782 understands, break away from the formation and return home."

More than ten minutes later, the two fighters roared and landed at Dongling Field Station, and it was obvious that they had turned on afterburner and returned at supersonic speed.

PS: Let's talk about the runway numbering issue below, so that some readers don't take it seriously.

The runway number is named according to the direction of the wind, with the magnetic azimuth angle, with due north as zero degrees, rotating clockwise, the basic principle is to take the first two digits after rounding, if the hundred digits are not replaced by zero, such as runway 11, it represents the runway pointing to the southeast direction of 105 degrees to 114 degrees, and 05 represents the direction between 45 degrees and 54 degrees northeast.

A runway will have two directions, add or subtract 18 to get the number of the other direction of the same runway, for example, the runway number of the other direction corresponding to No. 11 is 29.

If there are multiple runways in the same direction, add the letters L, C, R, L (Left) left, C (Centre) in the middle, and R (Right) in the right.

In order to avoid forgetting for a while, resulting in mismatch between the front and back, the book is uniformly replaced by a serial number, not named after the magnetic azimuth.