Xu Qing didn't understand what Zhang Qijun meant by "turtle speed gliding" at first, but he didn't know what it meant until he got on the E taxiway and followed behind the ass of China Airlines Boeing 737.

Xu Qing can see his gliding low speed on the navigation page, nine knots!

That's right, Xu Qing's plane taxied at a low speed of only nine knots. I think that when Xu Qing was in Blue Sky Airlines, except for special taxiing stages such as turning, he did not slide in a straight line below 15 knots, and most of them were above 20 knots. The ground speed of nine knots of straight gliding, Xu Qingqing has opened his eyes today.

The most important thing is that Xu Qing and the others maintain a ground speed of nine knots, but from the visual observation, they did not widen the gap with the China Airlines plane, which means that the China Airlines plane at this time is about the same ground speed.

It was a spectacle for two planes to race tortoises on the E taxiway at a speed of less than ten knots.

"Is this an airport rule?" Xu Qing naively thought that the airport had special regulations at first, but he thought that there had been no report of taxiing incidents at the airport in N City recently.

Generally speaking, the limit on taxiing speed should follow the airline's regulations, and airport ground control sometimes allows you to slide faster or slower to avoid conflicts or have time constraints. Otherwise, there are generally no hard and fast rules at the airport, unless there is a problem with the plane taxiing, and the airport may have additional regulations for the plane to taxi in a short period of time.

Something went wrong, and then for a while there was a lot of noise, and overcorrection was also a normal operation. This is the only reason Xu Qing can think of.

For example, some time ago, at the airport in N city, there was a plane that slid too fast, and the brakes were too late, resulting in a conflict, and the airport specially stipulated the maximum speed at which the plane taxied. This should be a reasonable guess.

"Is it on the airport notice? Not at all! Are there any rules for the airport? Not at all! Zhang Qijun said with a smile, obviously accustomed to this: "It has nothing to do with the airport, it has something to do with the airline!" ”

Xu Qing understood, and said uncertainly: "China Airlines is like this?" ”

Zhang Qijun nodded half-smiling, indicating that Xu Qing's guess was good.

"Why?" Xu Qing had never heard of such a tradition in China Airlines before, and he didn't find out when he flew before. Of course, he didn't fly much before, so it's possible that he didn't bump into it.

But what's the benefit of grinding while gliding on the ground? Can't practice skating? What's so technical about this thing?

Zhang Qijun's fingers were closed and rubbed twice, and Xu Qing immediately understood that this was a gesture to indicate money.

"Money, a little more time, it's all money!" Zhang Qijun revealed the mystery.

"No, the ground time is not always fixed...... Xu Qing said this, his face was a little strange: "Could it be that China Airlines is the only one, counting the ground time?" ”

A big part of a pilot's salary is the hourly fee, and how much money you get for how much time you fly, this is clear. But how do you calculate this time?

Of course, the time in the air from take-off to landing is undoubtedly counted as working time, but what about the time spent taxiing on the ground? After all, strictly speaking, there is a big difference between ground taxiing and air flying, and it can't be the same price. And sometimes it happens that it is blocked on the taxiway for more than an hour, so can it still be counted as an hour's salary? After all, the pilot basically didn't have much work for this hour, but he had to pay an hour's salary, and the airline was certainly not happy.

Therefore, most airlines count the ground time as a fixed time, such as 15 minutes, such as 20 minutes, and the specific difference depends on the conscience of each company.

This fixed operation means that the airline only gives you a fixed hourly fee no matter how long you taxi on the ground, such as 15 minutes per hour on Blue Sky Airlines. Glide fast, take off in fifteen minutes, that's what the pilot earned. If you skate slowly, or if you are delayed on the taxiway for more than fifteen minutes, you will only be paid for fifteen minutes.

This money is condemned to death!

This is the practice of most airlines, as most pilots do not taxi very slowly. Because the slide is slow, the extra time in the end is for nothing, and I panic.

But there is such a wonderful company, which uses the real gliding time as the salary standard, that is, how long you skate, I will give you how much money. Then this regulation to the pilot is not how slow and slow you can skate, and if you toss for an extra minute, it is also money!

"But it's too slow! My little electric donkey is faster than this! Xu Qing complained.

The ground speed of ten knots is converted into about eighteen kilometers per hour, and the speed of eighteen kilometers per hour Xu Qing's small electric car at home will definitely be able to reach it.

It's like a joke!

Think about a Boeing 737 gliding in a straight line like a small electric car, how funny that picture must be!

At this time, the frequency had already shifted to the ground, and Xu Qing saw that at this speed, he couldn't reach the instructions given by the apron just now to let them slide faster, and thought about whether to explain to the ground, or let the ground urge the China Airlines plane in front.

Just as Xu Qing was thinking about it, maybe the ground control couldn't stand it: "China Airlines 1432, why are you sliding so slowly, if you go on like this, the take-off interval will be wasted for you." ”

"Hurry up, got it!" China Airlines' reply was as slow as his taxiing at a low speed.

"Xingfei 8341, the take-off interval has been wasted by China Airlines, you wait at the head of the runway for a while, it may be delayed for a few minutes." Ground control is to take the responsibility off. Your Star Airlines delay has nothing to do with me, it's to blame China Airlines in front.

At this time, Xu Qing did not answer, but Zhang Qijun answered, only to see that he said in a calm tone: "Normal, get used to it!" ”

Zhang Qijun's voice was not loud, and there was not much anger, but it was full of yin and yang.

"No way, the company rules!" I don't know if I feel that I have gone too far, and China Airlines also defended it in the frequency.

Whether they felt that they had gone too far Xu Qing didn't know, he only knew that maintaining a low speed of ten knots did not distance himself from the front plane of China Airlines, which means that China Airlines did not accelerate, at least not much.

Perhaps it was not ashamed of China Airlines' shamelessness, and some people in the frequency began to be yin and yang: "Royal Airlines, it's good!" ”

The pilot also has a hand in being weird.

There are pilots who are yin and yang, and of course, there are also pilots who are irritable and spray people online: "Is your company's regulation that the ground speed of a straight line taxi does not exceed ten knots?" Why don't I come down and race against you? ”

At present, the speed of China Airlines is converted to five meters per second, which is equivalent to five meters per second, and ordinary people can run more than this speed.

Xu Qing heard that this was from Longyue Airlines behind them, and it was estimated that he couldn't stand it, so he felt uncomfortable!

All of a sudden, China Airlines became the target of public criticism, and finally the ground control was also brought to an end.

"China Airlines 1432, it's not once or twice that you are taxiing slowly, and if this situation occurs again in the future, we will report it here. You are maliciously not cooperating with the control work. "Ground control is still a bit heavy, but China Airlines' performance of turtle speed taxiing at N City Airport is not a problem once or twice, and it often has some impact on control, and there are already whispers in the control. However, the eastern branch of China Airlines is located in N City, and it has to be said that China Airlines still has a set of relationships to manage. Some small problems of control will be ignored with one eye and one eye, but today it is a little excessive, and the ground control must be mentioned in two words.

Speaking of relationship management, if this matter had been changed to Blue Sky Airlines, ground control would have been clamoring to report it a long time ago. Blue Airways has not had a good reputation at various airports in the last two years.

"Does China Airlines do this at the airport all the time?" Hearing the words of ground control, Xu Qing wondered in his heart, it was obviously not the first time for China Airlines, and it was not the first time, and it was not stabbed on it?

Zhang Qijun: "The base airport of the eastern branch of the people, do you understand?" ”

"Then K City is also the base airport of my former company, why haven't I seen control so easy to talk to?" Xu Qing is not happy now, in the past, the little things in Blue Sky Airlines could be reported to the control, how can he be so easy to talk about now?

Zhang Qijun was a little strange: "Isn't Dongfang Southwest mixing well at K City Airport?" ”

Xu Qing shuddered, I'll go! Said it leaked! Fortunately, the base of the Oriental Southwest Branch is also in K City, otherwise it would not be able to hold on now.

"Maybe there's something wrong with the control I'm experiencing, people...... Thousands of people, thousands of faces! Xu Qing casually made a nonsense for a reason, and snorted, wanting to get by.

"Oh, it's possible!" Zhang Qijun did not doubt him, so he didn't ask again.

Seeing that it did not arouse Zhang Qijun's suspicions, Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief. But even if it's a base airport, you can't get such a big convenience, right, is this N City Airport? I am up.

Perhaps it was the siege of peers and regulators that made the China Airlines crew realize that their behavior was about to touch the bottom line, but instead of stubbornly talking, they honestly accelerated their speed.

This episode on the ground did not affect the normal operation of Xingfei 8341, and the final take-off was only two minutes later than the expected time, which was not very significant. It's just that from this incident, it seems that the operation style of the airport in N city is still very different from that in K city.

Although N City Airport is located in the economically prosperous eastern region and is also the capital city of J Province, it is still not as good as K City Airport, which is one of the hubs of Southwest Airlines, in terms of throughput and airport size.

Of course, the smaller scale of the airport in N city is relative to the airport in K city, and it is still the one with a larger throughput in the country.

In the future, Xu Qing will have to work here for a long time, and he will try to adapt to the running style here.

If the scale and throughput of K city airport exceed that of N city, then in other aspects, Xu Qing feels that N city airport is much superior to K city airport.

The airport in N city is a very typical plain airport, or the provincial airports in the entire J province are plain airports, and there is no complex airport. As far as the eye can see, there are a few flat rivers, not to mention the mountains, and there are not even a few taller dirt bags.

Moreover, Xu Qing has read the information summarized by the meteorological data in the detailed rules of the airport in N city, and the southwest wind blows here all the year round, the wind direction change is relatively stable, and there are not many large-angle crosswinds, which is very different from the Z city airport that is also a large airport. There are often large-angle crosswinds at Z City Airport, and even 90-degree positive crosswinds are not a few, which is quite weird. The wind at the airport in N city is also not strong, and there is rarely a strong wind turbulence at the airport in K city during the wind season.

Relatively speaking, in terms of Xuqing's few airport flight experiences, N City is a relatively easy airport to fly. The clearance conditions are excellent, there are basically no dangerous obstacles, the flight procedures are relatively simple, it is not easy to cause confusion to the pilot, the climatic conditions are also good, and there are few extreme weather.

This is in stark contrast to the K-City Airport, which is located on a plateau, has poor flight performance, is mountainous, has complex flight procedures, and often has extreme weather conditions.

Xu Qing and the others did not encounter even the slightest bump in the process of taking off, and it was quite smooth.

This time Xu Qing didn't operate, Zhang Qijun is not a teacher, according to the regulations, he can't fly, Xu Qing is also happy, now he just wants to get familiar with the working environment first, after all, he hasn't been on the real plane for more than a year.

Due to the fact that he did not touch the real plane for a long time, Xu Qing occasionally had some omissions when doing normal procedures, such as forgetting to put the automatic brake in the OFF position and the landing gear handle in the neutral position when making the post-takeoff checklist, which should generally be done before the checklist is done after takeoff. As a result, when Zhang Qijun announced the post-takeoff checklist, Xu Qing directly took the normal checklist, skipped these two steps, and only remembered his omissions under Zhang Qijun's reminder.

Xu Qing was a little embarrassed, he could make such a low mistake, and he was a little embarrassed.

In contrast, Zhang Qijun's reaction was quite indifferent, and after he reminded Xu Qing, there was no follow-up. In his eyes, Xu Qing is a pair that has just been promoted, and many new pairs sometimes make some small mistakes, as long as they are not some principled mistakes, such as adjusting the wrong height, hitting the wrong entry and exit procedures, etc., it is okay to say.

Of course, Zhang Qijun is so tolerant or accustomed to it because he thinks that Xu Qing is just a new one, if Zhang Qijun knows that the idol in his heart has even made a mistake in a post-takeoff program, I don't know what it will be like.

The normal flight procedure is a muscle memory, but there are many things involved, even if you are familiar with the normal flight procedure, you may still remember most of it if you don't use it for a long time, but some details are easy to forget.

For example, when the instructor takes the left seat co-pilot, the instructor needs to sit in the right seat, but they rarely do the right seat program, so sometimes there are some very low-level mistakes, which is understandable. If the instructor stumbles or makes some mistakes or omissions in the normal procedure when he is in the right seat, it cannot be said that the instructor can't even complete the normal procedure. It can only be said that I changed the environment, and I was a little uncomfortable at first.

After the plane was cruising on a flat basis, Xu Qing loosened the seat belt lights, and the crew was ready to start work.

The distance from N city to W city is not long, and the whole flight segment is about one and a half hours. Xu Qing and Zhang Qijun are not familiar with each other, and both of them are talking nonsense without a word, until the cabin call bell rings and the meal starts!