Chapter 500: Flight Simulator
In the teaching aircraft, Mhammad has almost selected the teaching-8, although this aircraft is still unclear about the development progress, Mhammad has also made a decision, the experience of later generations tells Mhammad that the choice of this training aircraft is absolutely right!
Next, we need to send someone to Nanchang Airlines to investigate and negotiate the project of the Chinese education aircraft. The higher education aircraft is also a type of aircraft that Pakistan needs to choose.
In fact, many countries are not equipped with higher education aircraft, when the flight of the Chinese education aircraft, you can directly on the two-seat fighter, to carry out the corresponding training, now, the third generation aircraft is not as common as later generations, the use of higher education aircraft countries are also very few.
However, judging from the cost-effectiveness ratio, wasting the flight time of valuable fighters on training cadets is not worth the loss. The flight time of a fighter is precious, for example, the Soviet fighter, almost a few hundred hours, has to overhaul the engine once, and after a few hundred more flights, the engine will be scrapped.
Fighter jets are used for combat, and higher education aircraft are the best program for training pilots!
The performance of the higher education aircraft is higher, which is very similar to the third-generation aircraft, and can be used to train the pilots of the third-generation aircraft, but at the same time, the procurement cost of the high-education aircraft is far lower than that of the third-generation aircraft, so the cost of training pilots is very low.
On the other hand, the performance of the higher education aircraft is high, and some weapons can also be added, and when fighting, the air combat with the opponent may be still poor, but it is a very practical choice for ground attack, and at the same time, it can also reduce the number of ground attack aircraft purchased. In later generations, almost all third-generation aircraft have the ability to attack on the ground.
The elder Arslan has been in the United States for many years, and he is still accustomed to the American training method and uses high-level training aircraft to reduce the loss of first-line fighters. It's a very common idea.
Now, for the sake of the continued development of the Air Force, the old Arslan has moved out a series of training aircraft programs.
"Among the higher education aircraft, the main ones are the British's 'Eagle', the French 'Alpha Jet', and the Italian 'Marqui', these models." The elder Arslan went on to introduce to Mhammad: "These three models. All are trainer attack aircraft, and while coaching, they also have the ability to attack on the ground. ”
There are three kinds of aircraft, each with its own differences, and the British are already a second-rate capitalist country at this time, but in terms of aviation, there is still a lot of advanced technology.
At the end of the 60s, the British Air Force prepared for service with new aircraft types, and at the same time demanded a change in the entire flight training regime and the development of a new generation of intermediate/advanced jet trainers. In order to ensure that training is carried out economically and effectively, and can meet the requirements of future air combat. In October '71, Hawker-Siddeley won the bid to start developing a new trainer aircraft, and in '72 Rolls-Royce was selected for a non-afterburner turbofan engine. The whole project progressed rapidly, and even went directly to the development stage of five pre-production aircraft without the development of prototypes, and the mass production aircraft entered service with the army in November 1976, which was also very fast.
Meantime. The performance of this aircraft is good, and it was even favored by the United States. It became a special carrier-based trainer aircraft for the U.S. Navy, and it was redesigned for this purpose, and this aircraft has been in continuous production until later generations, and it can be described as an evergreen model that will not age the sword.
The "Alpha Jet" advanced trainer/light attack aircraft is a trainer/attack aircraft jointly developed by Dassault of France and Dornier of Germany. Development also began in 1970, and the first prototype began test flights on October 26, 1973. In 1975, it was officially put into production to equip the troops. Compared with the Eagle, the advantage of this aircraft is that it uses two engines, and the advantage of twin engines is self-evident, which is safer than a single-engine trainer aircraft.
And the Italian company Marqui. It is also a veteran training aircraft development company, which manufactured the classic MB.339 two-seat tandem trainer / attack aircraft, the prototype first flew in 76, entered service in 79, and the first batch entered the Italian Air Force, MB.339 After 210 hours of flight, it can be changed to a two-seat fighter. This kind of aircraft has a payload capacity of more than two tons, and can even carry anti-ship missiles, which is a relatively heavy trainer attack aircraft, but unfortunately, the disadvantage is that it uses a turbojet engine, which consumes a lot of fuel and has a low life.
"We can look at each of these three types of trainers and choose a suitable model from them." Mhammad said.
If Pakistan does not put all its energy on imitating the Tomcat, even Pakistan itself can develop a training aircraft, and the technical difficulty of the training aircraft is not high.
"If you want to train pilots, you don't have to be on the plane and waste valuable flight time." Just as the two were talking, Yang Wei, a Huaxia technician on the side and the general person in charge of the telex system, suddenly spoke.
No matter what kind of trainer plane, in the end, it still has to fly a two-seater fighter and carry out modified flights, which can take as little as dozens of hours and as many as hundreds.
Hearing Yang Wei's words, Mahmad suddenly turned his gaze, looked at him, and said, "Mr. Yang, do you have any good ideas?" ”
"You can use a flight simulator." The words that came out of Yang Wei's mouth suddenly inspired Hammad.
To train pilots, of course, you can not only rely on real training, but also conduct simulations!
In later generations, many combat games were not only played by players, but also used by troops, and even many games were developed with military background and with military funding.
Many players can't really experience war, but they can learn a lot of knowledge from the game, air combat games, even more so, the famous Lockon in later generations, the simulation is very realistic, each model is almost completely born from the real fighter, if in the game, the overload is too large, and even the screen will be black, used to imitate the pilot's black vision, the effect is very realistic.
However, that is already the computer of later generations, even if it is an ordinary Android mobile phone, it is already faster than the most powerful computer host of this era, and this kind of computer game, mainly depends on refreshing the screen image, but also requires strong hardware support.
What is the game of the computer in this day and age? At most, it's solitaire.,Minesweeper.,This type of game.,Popular in the game halls of the streets and alleys.,Mainly those arcade games.,The picture.,I'm afraid it's similar to animation.。
However, these are folk games, and if the Pakistani authorities want to simulate them themselves, they can invest more and build a large computer, and use this kind of large computer to simulate, and the effect will definitely be much better. Although computers are expensive, they are definitely cheaper than fighter jets.
Now, the use of simulators has gradually matured, and the control of aircraft has begun to transform into fly-by-wire operation! The control rate of the aircraft is already a problem with the computer program, so the software is much simpler.
"Let's simulate a simulated cockpit." Yang Wei said: "It is completely the same as the real cockpit, but the front has become a fluorescent screen, through which the outside world is simulated, the take-off and landing of pilots are trained, various operations, and they are trained to be familiar with our fighters, and they will be able to use the fastest time to be familiar with the operation of this kind of aircraft. ”
Yang Wei's suggestion is completely achievable, especially since Pakistan's software and hardware industries have begun to flourish.
A few years ago, when Mhammad visited the United States for the first time, he signed a cooperation agreement with AMD to establish a wafer factory in Pakistan to produce AMD CPUs, at this time, it was still the era of 80286, and 386 was not released until 91. THIS 16-BIT PROCESSOR, THE MAIN FREQUENCY HAS REACHED 20MHZ, IT HAS BEEN REGARDED AS A CLASSIC CPU FOR MANY YEARS, AND EVEN AFTER THE BIRTH OF 386, MANY PEOPLE STILL LIKE TO USE 286 PROCESSORS.
This CPU, is also used in many computers produced by Pakistan itself, in the developing world, Pakistan's computer education, is quite advanced, although it can not be popularized to high school, but all universities, have opened computer-related courses, at the same time, also trained a large number of software personnel.
These software personnel are the precious wealth of Pakistan, and now the advantages of computers have not yet been reflected, and in later generations, the software industry is a considerable industry! For example, Ah San, although there are many illiterates in the country, the software industry is already approaching Silicon Valley.
Yang Wei just made a suggestion, the specific operation, or the Pakistani side itself to develop, after all, Chengfei's key project, or the No. 10 project, Yang Wei came here to stay here for half a month at most, and then it was time to leave.
A suggestion from Yang Wei made Mahmad decide that the specific development could be carried out in the university! A university is not only an institution of higher learning, a place for cultivating talents, but also a scientific research institution, even in the United States, in the Apollo moon landing program, many universities participated in the development of it.
Now, the same is true for Pakistani universities, Islamabad Aerospace University, which is an elite school for training aeronautics and astronautics, and it is time to give the school some scientific research tasks!
With this in mind, a few days later, Mhammad arrived at the Aerospace University on the outskirts of Islamabad.
This is a newly established school, the gate of the school, set up a Jian-6 fighter, which was a meritorious aircraft in the Third Indo-Pakistani War, after retirement, was pulled here to serve as a symbol of the school.
The president of the university, Adil Abu, had already taken steps into the university campus when he heard the news of Mhammad's visit. (To be continued......)