After having breakfast and lunch in his hometown, Mei Zhirong sent a car to take Xu Qing to the operation base of Xingfei Airlines. When he was in the car, Xu Qing used his mobile phone to check whether there were any important announcements in City N and City B recently, because it was the first time he flew to City B, so he also called Li Xianyi last night to ask Li Xianyi about the points that should be paid attention to in the operation of City B. As a result, Li Xianyi told Xu Qingzheng about the commonly used landing runway and approach method, as well as the relatively fixed location of the parking position.

Xu Qing is actually not very willing to go to an airport like City B that operates with a three-runway, because the operating environment of this kind of airport is too complicated. Not to mention that the throughput is extremely large, the scheduling margin is very small, and if something goes wrong, it will be amplified.

For example, in other airports, the approach control slows down to 210 knots, and some captains are unwilling to reduce so much, so they are lazy and adjust the speed to 230 knots. Under normal circumstances, if there is no separation conflict, the approach control will not say anything.

However, it is different in City B, due to its huge throughput, the distance between aircraft is smaller than that of other airports, so the adjustable space is relatively small.

For example, the five-sided landing interval is relatively tight if a normal large airport is five nautical miles. If it falls on the side of City B, it can be pulled into three seas.

That is, when a plane takes off on the runway, there is a plane preparing to land three nautical miles away on five sides. Basically, not long after one plane takes off, another plane lands on the ground, and the interval between them is very tight, and the slightest problem is easy to disrupt the entire scheduling rhythm.

This kind of command method is a great test of control ability, and it also requires pilots to strictly abide by the control instructions and chart restrictions, and the control can be seen if there is a little relaxation.

Commanding such a high-traffic airport, the pressure of control is already great, and you are still disobedient and making trouble? Nine times out of ten, the control will be sued. Nine times out of ten, it is the pilots who are unlucky.

Flying at this kind of airport, the control asks you to adjust 210 knots, and if you dare to adjust 220 knots, the control will dare to shut you down. I don't know if City B has a special status, and the control of City B is also arrogant. It's all uncles over there, and the pilots can't be provoked.

The thing now is that City B is the political center of the country, City P is the economic center, and both airports are hub airports with three runways running. The complexity of the airport in City P is no less than that of City B, and both airports are among the top airports in terms of domestic traffic.

The director of the planning room also gave these two classes to Xu Qing out of good intentions, but he didn't know that Xu Qing was lazy by nature, so he just arranged a simple airport to fly to relieve his hunger, but there was no need to come up and give him the whole complicated airport.

Xu Qingqing read the notice, and also paid attention to whether the plane had been changed. It is not uncommon for the plane to be changed the night before, and it is easy to miss the reserved items on the plane after changing planes. Although there are some important reservations, the dispatch will be reminded by phone before the flight, but you can't rely on the dispatch for everything.

This flight is a two-person crew, Xu Qing flies with a single captain, Xu Qing has been too lazy to fly recently, it is good to fly with the captain of a single plane, just cooperate with it, and play soy sauce.

The captain's name is Cheng Zhen, and it seems that the time when he entered the company coincided with Xingfei Airlines, and he was still an old employee. Just looking at the photo of this person, Xu Qing felt that this person's face was a little vicious, and Xu Qing was a little disliked. It's just that after thinking about it, Xu Qing smiled bitterly, he was still a dog.

The transportation of J province is convenient, unlike the Y province where the city of K is located. The driver assigned by Mei Zhirong has good skills, and there are basically no bumps on the whole road. After reading some flight information, Xu Qing lowered his head and rested for a while, and when he felt that the car had stopped and his eyes opened, he found that he had arrived at the operation base of Xingfei Airlines.

picked up the flight box, explained the approximate landing time to the driver, and the driver also left a phone call to Xu Qing. If there is a change in the landing time, just talk to him. He found a parking lot nearby, and within ten minutes, he was on the go.

After explaining the matter, Xu Qing entered the base building and went straight to the flight preparation room. Xu Qing looked at the time, fifteen minutes ahead of the sign-in time.

Xu Qing's take-off time for this flight is really comfortable, and it is estimated that there are not many flights like this in Xingfei Airlines. Because when Xu Qing arrived at the preparation room, there were two sets of preparations in the preparation room, and the preparation room of Nuoda seemed very deserted.

By now, paperless office has been officially implemented. Each pilot is given a new iPad, which comes with charts of all the airports operated by Starline, as well as the aircraft's technical manuals and some crew aids.

However, the only pity is that the technical department of Xingfei Aviation has not yet digitized the high-altitude charts, so it is still necessary to go to the information table to get the paper version of the high-altitude charts. In addition to the aerial charts, the data table will also provide a spare tablet to prevent unforeseen problems with the crew's own tablet. Of course, these spare tablets are second-hand, and Star Airlines is not so rich that even the spare tablets are brand new, so there is really no need.

This spare tablet is to be sent back to the company along with the high-altitude charts, as well as the mission book, manifest, and fuel bill.

Even if the office is paperless, you still need a paper task book for security checks. Therefore, after Xu Qing received his things at the information seat, he went to the dispatch seat to get the paper task book, and the signing of the dispatch seat not only gave Xu Qing a paper task book, but also gave an extra piece of paper, a black and white copy of paper.

"What the hell?" Xu Qing looked at it for a long time, and this piece of paper was densely packed with various symbols. The key to the effect of copying, Xu Qing really wanted to vomit when he saw it.

"This is a map of the airport in City B. ”

"This is a map of the airport in City B? Don't lie to me! Xu Qing looked at the so-called airport map of City B several times, just like reading a book from heaven. The key is that this drawing is so badly copied that Xu Qing even suspects that it is the result of a second or even three copies.

The dispatch knew that the copied map of the airport in city B was a little anxious, but he had no choice but to put aside the problem of the photocopying effect and go straight to the essence: "A new S6 taxiway has been built on the north side of the S5 taxiway of the airport in city B, and it has not been updated on the electronic aeronautical chart, so I will give you a paper airport map." ”

"S5 taxiway? Is the one facing the head of the 18L runway? Xu Qing just glanced at the airport map of City B a few times, and basically wrote down the approximate distribution of taxiways.

Since airports operating on the third runway sometimes involve taxiing through the runway, there is a risk of runway intrusion, so Xu Qing is particularly concerned about the taxiing route in City B. Therefore, as soon as the dispatch mentioned the S5 taxiway, Xu Qing came up with the taxiway map of the airport in City B.

"Uh......" dispatch is to read according to the notice, relay the information to the crew, and ask him on the spot if the S5 taxiway is at the head of the 18L runway, and he was really asked.

"Forget it, forget it, I'll see for myself." Xu Qing was stopped when he saw that the dispatch was asked, so he simply took his tablet, opened the electronic aeronautical chart, and compared the difference between the electronic aeronautical chart and the paper aeronautical chart.

Xu Qing remembers not badly, the S5 taxiway is at the runway head of the 18L runway. The S5 taxiway is next to the West 1 apron, so since the S6 taxiway is on the north side of S5, it can only be on the north side of the West 1 apron. The S5 and S6 taxiways are separated by a West 1 apron, so it is impossible to get close to each other.

Based on this, Xu Qing can probably guess the location of the S6 taxiway.

With the guess in his heart, Xu Qing compared the paper airport map, and at a glance, Xu Qinghal was about to be vomited. Xu Qing stared at the north side of S5 to find the S6 taxiway, but could only vaguely find a line. As a result, because his eyes were too focused and too close, Xu Qing was very uncomfortable to watch.

"What about the original airport map? You expect us to slide on this stuff in City B? Do you look too much at our eyes, or are you sure we won't slide here? "Xu Qingzhen just obeyed the assignment, just this broken picture, even if he pulled out his eyeballs and took pictures of the aerial map, he couldn't see it clearly!

The dispatch was very difficult: "It's all like this, it's faxed." This one...... It's a bit vague, but ...... I can't help it! The originals are not much worse than that. ”

Xu Qing was so angry that he wanted to slap the paper airport map on the face of the party, what can you see in this broken picture?

"You bring me the original first." Xu Qing beckoned to the signing faction, he was not the kind of person who could just forget it. Some ordinary airports have no impact if the slip error does not cause an impact, and they will say good things about the control, and they will not care if they can't be controlled. At City B airport, this kind of appeasement is not possible, as long as you step on that line, it is a red line.

At an airport like City B, where the ground is so busy, even if you stop and slowly distinguish the taxiway, it may cause the taxiway to be occupied. Sometimes, the control and other aircraft will complain, and the pressure on the crew will be very high.

The dispatch was a little annoyed, so he took out a piece of paper from the drawer and handed it to Xu Qing: "Look, why am I lying to you?" When the fax came, the image was blurry. ”

Xu Qing took the original, and compared it with the photocopy, there was indeed no difference.

"It's all up to the naked eye." Xu Qing had no choice but to ask for a finer pen from the dispatching side, and traced the S6 taxiway, which was more conspicuous.

The dispatcher didn't care about Xu Qing's meticulous attitude, and even teased: "Brother, there's no need!" Our company's parking stand will not pass through the S6 taxiway, just look at it, you can't slide. ”

Xu Qing sneered while cautiously aiming at the taxiway: "You dare to pack a ticket? If it's about the S6 taxiway and we slip wrong, can you excuse us? ”

Of course, Xu Qing knows that most of the parking stands of Xingfei Airlines in City B are east of runway 18L/36R, and the taxiing route will basically not use the S6 taxiway, so it seems that the dispatch is not unreasonable.

However, in Xu Qing's view, it is this kind of behavior habit of getting by and relying on the brain to make up for it, and it will come at a price after all.

It shouldn't be able to slide down the S6 taxiway! This kind of extremely irresponsible words could come out of the dispatcher's mouth, which made Xu Qing a little shocked. Even if this sentence is a fluke a thousand times, as long as it is wrong once, the pilot really listens to the nonsense of the dispatcher, and does not care about the correct position of the S6 at all.

Pilots have to learn to protect themselves, and if something goes wrong, no one will help you speak.

Xu Qing traced the S6 taxiway and returned the signature pen to the dispatcher. He will definitely not describe the whole picture, mainly to mark the connection between the S6 taxiway and other taxiways, and the identification of other taxiways depends on clear electronic charts.

Xu Qing was quite satisfied with his work, said hello to the dispatcher, and was about to leave, but was stopped by the dispatcher.

"Brother, I see you're flying with Chengzhen today!" The dispatcher lowered his voice and only let Xu Qing hear it.

"yes!" Xu Qing was strange, why was the dispatcher so mysterious: "What's wrong?" ”

The dispatcher said earnestly: "This person has a problem, you don't have to say anything, if you can, don't say it." ”

Xu Qingran said: "Isn't your temper very good?" ”

"It's not just that the temper is not very good." The dispatcher organized the following language: "This man's nickname is Immortal, you can't figure out what is going on in his head?" Maybe a very common sentence can him off. So, except for work, don't try to have a relationship with him. ”

The dispatcher didn't say a word. This Cheng Zhen's nickname at the beginning was Cheng Crazy, he was dug up by other companies, and he couldn't release the captain in other companies, but he was released as the captain by Xingfei Airlines.

It's not that he has technical problems, his technical indicators are still in the middle and upper class of the captain level of Xingfei Airlines. The only reason why you can't put the captain in other companies is because this person has a brain problem.

His temper stinks so much that it is incomprehensible, and in the end it can only be explained that he has a problem with his brain.

When he was in his old club, when Cheng Zhen was still a co-pilot, his neurotic emotional intelligence performance offended almost the entire company's colleagues. The bureau inspector didn't get along much with him, and when he checked it, he thought his skills were good and let him go, and after getting the route license, Chengzhen became even worse, and even the company's inspectors couldn't get used to him.

Whether you can get a route license or not is decided by the bureau, but getting a route license only means that you have the qualifications to hire a captain. However, whether to hire a captain or not is still discussed and decided by the company's technical committee.

The technical committee did not agree to hire a captain, and even if he had a route license, he would always be a senior co-pilot.

In the company, Chengzhen has long been ruined, and the company was not very short of captains at that time, so he was stunned that he never hired a captain, and Chengzhen became more and more irritable.

In the end, Cheng Zhen couldn't bear it anymore and proposed to change jobs, but surprisingly, his old club didn't even embarrass him much. After losing some money, he happily sent him out, and then Chengzhen came to Xingfei Airlines.

Perhaps bewitched by his good technical appearance, Starfly hired him as a captain not long after he joined. After becoming the captain, Cheng Jin began to show his capricious temper, not only the co-pilot complained about it, but even some captains and instructors were quite dissatisfied with it. Then, Chengzhen's reputation as a madman in his old club spread to Xingfei Airlines, and at this time, the flight department of Xingfei Airlines knew that he had picked up a treasure!

But at this time, it is already difficult to ride a tiger, there is no problem with people's technology, and there have been no unsafe incidents, so you can't take the captain for a temper problem, this is too domineering.

In the end, the flight department of Xingfei Aviation only restricted his path to become an instructor, and there was no other way to do the rest. In the face of all kinds of complaints from the co-pilots, the flight department was helpless.

Eventually, the reputation of becoming a madman began to evolve into an immortal.

No matter what you say, a madman belongs to the human mind, and Chengzhen's brain circuit has transcended that of humans. There are many co-pilots who react and talk to Cheng Zhen, the first sentence may still be good, and the next sentence, he will be hairy. Can't catch it at all, he gets angry.

Chengzhen is famous in the flying circle, how can he even know about the dispatch?

That's because more than once, Cheng Zhen asked for a temporary change of co-pilot. The co-pilot who came up from the backup basically hurried to him to get a new mission book, and then entered the scene non-stop. After many times, the dispatcher also knew that there were such strange things in the pilot team.

Originally, he didn't need to remind Xu Qing, but seeing Xu Qing's meticulous attitude in doing things, he felt a little admired by this old bastard.

I'm a bastard, but that doesn't stop me from liking hardworking people!

Seeing that Xu Qing was pleasing to the eye, the dispatcher kindly reminded Xu Qing. The third-level co-pilot with the lowest level among the first co-pilots like Xu Qing was the most annoying, and out of sympathy, the dispatcher wanted to help Xu Qing.

"I'm not familiar with him, except for work, there's nothing to talk about, don't worry, I can't mess with him!" Xu Qing didn't care very much, but he still thanked the dispatcher for his kindness.

Except for a few changes to this taxiway, there is nothing else to pay attention to. After reading the pre-flight electronic information, Xu Qing began to fill in the pre-flight preparation card.

After filling in for a while, Xu Qing suddenly discovered something.

It's almost time to sign in, why haven't you seen the captain yet?

By the way, the watch time, there are still three or four minutes before the latest check-in time. Xu Qing waited for a while, but finally couldn't help it and made a call to Chengzhen.

The phone was connected, and Xu Qing said, "Captain, it's time to sign in soon." ”

"Who are you? Flying together? An irritated voice came from the other end of the phone: "Just mind yourself, nosy!" ”

After speaking, he hung up the phone directly and rudely.

Xu Qing was inexplicably stinky, and put away his mobile phone speechlessly, sure enough, he had a stinky temper.

Not long after, a four-bar pilot slowly entered the preparation room, and looked at the face of Chengzhen. He just glanced at Xu Qing, and then took the step that his six relatives didn't recognize, and went to the wine meter to sign in first.

Xu Qing looked at the time, and the latest check-in time was really calculated in seconds. However, looking at his unhurried appearance, this kind of pressure point thing is estimated to have been done many times.

After signing in, Cheng Zhen came to Xu Qing's table with an expressionless face, and came up to ask: "Do you know what it means to respect the captain?" ”