Section 139 - Zambia's Air Riding Challenge
Lin Mo nodded with a smile and looked at Noraf, "How about it, it's your turn!" Ready to get started? ”
Swallowing hard, the corners of Noraff's mouth twitched, and he nodded and said, "I'm ready!" The tone was exactly the same as that of the Dharma Circle.
"Lieutenant Lin Mo, don't give them too much difficulty, after all, they are not pilots of China." Major Huang De, the head of the instructor group, said to Lin Mo that he could see that those maneuvers just now were not too difficult for some elite pilots in China, but considering that these pilots of the Republic of Zambia who had only flown the J-6 and MiG-21, it was a bit harsh.
"Huh! I see, I've got a rough idea. Lin Mo replied that the ability and physical fitness of these Zambian Air Force pilots have been roughly understood, and there is still a certain gap between them and the expected estimates.
I don't know if it's Lin Mo's luck or fate, the country he is in is still relatively powerful in this world, and the starting point is correspondingly high, and he has never participated in real air battles, thinking that the pilots of other countries are about the same level as him, but he didn't expect that the gap between the truth and imagination is so big.
It seems that these countries buy the export version of the J-10 FC-20, the actual significance is greater than the actual combat significance, if it really starts, even if the Zambian pilot F-35 may not be able to win the "Chinese" pilots who drive the J-10, it is still the people who decide the victory.
Lin Mo, who already has a sense of proportion in his heart, took Noraf on the K-8 trainer again, this time Lin Mo reported a few maneuvers adapted to the J-10 for Noraf to use, and the performance was still unsatisfactory, it seems that these Zambian pilots are very rough and simple, and the flight actions are not complicated, and they cannot adapt to the delicate and changeable flexible maneuvering, which is still a long distance away for the J-10 that is flexible and suitable for low-distance mobile combat.
"Well, let's start with the basics, and the last month has been mainly theoretical!" Linmer was going to help Lieutenant Grafido and Lieutenant Noraf lay the groundwork, which was the tone he and several other Air Force instructors had set for their discussion after class.
Understanding the structure of the FC-20 is obviously extremely beneficial to learning the new model and new special Xing, Major Huang De and others also quickly referred to Lin Mo's method, but they did not teach themselves, and did not dare to let these pilots learn to assemble aircraft, but let two Chinese aircraft engineers give on-site lectures for the students, and at the same time copy some of Lin Mo's small skills, which are valuable experiences that have not even been recorded in the book.
In order to facilitate theoretical teaching, the Chinese four-member instructor team took turns to give lessons to all Zambian pilots in the morning, explaining the most basic flight actions, and focusing on explaining the differences between FC-20 and J-6 and MiG-21, as well as operational taboos, guiding them to start from the most basic learning operations, and at the same time, in the afternoon, strengthening physical training and reaction training, and developing operating habits suitable for FC-20 aircraft.
Without simulators, the speed of teaching is not as fast as in China, and sometimes, the difference with the FC-20 can only be explained according to the MiG-21 and K-8 consoles.
Huā for more than two weeks, the first FC-20 was assembled out, and passed the test plane, which is a lack of teaching means for Lin Mo They are tantamount to sending timely rain, but Zambia's military spending a year is a little more than 100 million US dollars, and buying four FC-20 in one go, it has been tightening the belt and saving money for several years, where is there any money left to buy J-10 two-seat training aircraft, these four FC-20 are single-seaters, if you go to the sky, you need to assemble another one, And the risk factor is still relatively large.
The only way to adapt to local conditions is to use the cockpit of the FC-20 to set up a wooden platform outside the cockpit, so that the trainees can stand outside the cabin and watch the pilot in the driver's seat.
Each instructor takes his own students to simulate the operation, so that the Zambian pilot can practice various operations in a non-start-on state, and the instructor on the side is responsible for reminding and correcting the misoperation, so that only the instructor with rich experience in flying the J-10 has the ability to do this kind of blind flight teaching.
In order to make the teaching more concise and easy to remember, Lin Mo and the other three instructors worked together to create a simple one-to-one physical simulation cockpit out of wood, Lin Mo's super carpenter skills made everyone stunned, he is a cosplay master, a sensation in the "demon" fighter model maker of the Central Military Commission, the simulation cockpit is made wonderful, and even loaded with several universal bearings, with two large steel rings made into a cockpit that can be flipped by the simulation, Below with simple mining rails, you can get some overload acceleration, and Lin Mo's craftsmanship really shocked the Zambian soldiers.
In fact, Lin Mo's modeling skills are not as good as the gold dragon that pretends to be a watch on his wrist.
Having flying experience is always better than a civilian who knows nothing, and the eight pilots recommended by the Lusaka Air Base in Zambia are obviously more capable of learning than the average pilot, and by the time the second FC-20 is assembled, it will be ready to fly in two-plane formation.
The most basic and most important take-off and landing operation learning of fighters is to put it in the first place, and only in this way can these new trainees master the operation of FC-20 as soon as possible without the condition of a two-seat trainer.
Due to their physical limitations, Lin Mo and Major Huang De could only tell them how to operate some difficult maneuvers, but they could not actually use them, otherwise they would have to crawl on the lawn with weak hands and feet like Gradov.
A dark green helicopter gunship flew slowly from afar and landed in front of Hangar 3 at Lusaka Air Base with a roar.
"What's going on?" Lin Mo saw that many people seemed to have received some orders, and kept talking to each other, and rushed to the location where the helicopter gunship landed, as if some big man was coming.
"Oh, it's the son of the commander of the Air Force, Marshal Xingao, Major Kaura, who has come to inspect the base today!" Grafido looked at it, and the pilot's excellent eyesight could clearly see a young officer and a few entourages who were stepping off the plane under the protection of the base guards, and he smiled apologetically at Lin Mo: "I'm sorry, Lin, we have to go and greet you!"
"Major Kaula is a man with a bad temper, Lin!" Noraf squeezed his eyes at Lin Mo and whispered.
Lin Mo paused, and then he heard someone shouting not far away: "Lieutenant Lin Mo, **, Major Kaura, the son of the commander of the Zambian Air Force, has arrived, and we will meet him together." ”
Major Huang De waved at Lin Mo not far away, and he was also greeting the others, the commander of the Zambian Air Force was the top boss of this base, and those of them who were guests should also say hello to his son.
Four air force instructors gathered together, and all the Zambian pilots and guards in the base, under the leadership of their respective commanders, lined up one after another to be reviewed.
Led by the head of the instructor group, Major Huang De, the Chinese instructor team of four and two engineers stood together at the end of the team at Lusaka Air Base.
Lin Mo saw a very young dark-skinned young man, tall and sturdy, with a strong step, wearing a short-sleeved summer dress in army green, wearing black toad glasses, and a short horsewhip in his hand.
Lieutenant General Mora, the top official of the Lusaka base, accompanied Major Kaura, introducing him to the new faces in the base, and when he walked in front of the Chinese personnel, his voice was raised and introduced: "This is Major Huang De of the [China] country, the leader of the instructor group for us to train FC-20 pilots, this is Major Han Renguang, with 2,000 hours of flight experience, this is Captain Zou Han, with more than three types of fighter flight experience, and the latter is Lieutenant Lin Mo, codenamed Jinyuan, is the youngest trump card." ”
One of the conditions for the joint purchase of J-10 by several small African countries this time is to require pilots codenamed "Golden Coins" as training instructors, for Zambians, the record of two fighter jets falling down is enough to be called a trump card, especially the excellent flying skills shown in the training, it is hard to believe that this is just a young pilot who has less than 500 flight hours, and it seems that it is not inferior to veteran pilots such as Major Han and Major Huang.
"'Gold'?" Major Kaura showed a mouthful of snow-white teeth, and looked at Lin Mo with interest, "I heard that you are the most powerful pilot in China?!"
Are you praising me or are you scolding me, Lin Mo couldn't help frowning in his heart, he shook his head and said, "Me? No, I'm just an ordinary pilot, I have only been in the army for less than a year, and there are more pilots in China who are better than me. ”
Lin Mo's words were not mixed with water at all, it turned out that the old pilots such as Captain Jiang of the 7759 Brigade were much stronger than themselves, and even the gold dragon gold coins on their wrists were beaten down from the sky by their own hands, and even Lin Mo did not have the confidence to use the J-10 to knock the gold coins down from the sky until now.
Lin Mo's truth fell into the ears of Major Kaura, but it became overly modest, and he smiled, "I'm also a pilot, why don't we compare with each other, how about it,
Have a friendly air force match between Zambia and China? How is it? ”
Other people's faces changed, Kaula is obviously provoking the Chinese people, how can this work, no matter who loses or wins, it will have a bad impact, Zambia won the "China" country, and the "China" country that has lost face will not be so kind to help next time, and the "China" country wins, Zambia will not want to raise its head in front of other African countries, it is obviously more than worth the loss.
"Kaura, don't mess around!" Lieutenant General Mora's face changed, and he said in a voice that only he and Kaula could hear...