Chapter 39 Landing in High Sea Conditions 2

"Deck clear, Procedure 32 complete."

"The glide track information interception was successful, ready to land."

"Watch out for crosswinds, which will blow from your right and the maximum gusts may reach 14 meters per second."

"Understood, begin the landing procedure."

On the bridge, everyone understood that they had to guide the four J-15s in the sky to land before the weather became worse, and if the time dragged on, they might lose the opportunity to land.

In the frenzied winds and waves, the huge body of the aircraft carrier sometimes lifted and fell with the swells, and now the ups and downs of the hull are very close to the minimum requirements for takeoff and landing, and all the crews on the deck are already in place, waiting for the planes ready to land, they must transport the planes that have landed on the deck down the hangar in the shortest possible time, and then make the arresting cable reset and other preparations again.

"The deck crew fastened their seatbelts, and the plane was ready to land." The landing commander stared at the J-15 that had entered the landing posture in the monitoring, while reminding the deck crew to pay attention to safety, and at the same time always paying attention to the flight attitude and number of aircraft.

"Slow down, slow down, reduce the thrust."

In the centralized control room, the square monitoring display used for landing is divided into a uniform quarter by two lines that cross the cross, and the position of the intersection point has no lines, but a square space, which is one of the important bases for observing whether the aircraft is on the glide path from the monitoring, the position of the surveillance camera is fixed at the stern of the ship, and when the hull rises and falls with the waves, the monitoring picture is also up and down. In other words, the glide path is also up and down. This also means that when the landed plane lands on the ship, once the hull of the ship fluctuates too much, it is very likely to miss the blocking cable and be forced to refly, or directly hit the tail plane and die.

Xia Yu, Mu Shaoqing, Chen Guofang and others were watching the plane that was about to land in the bridge, and suddenly a green figure at the tail of the deck ran sideways from the flight deck, Xia Yu looked at it and shouted: "There are people running on the deck!" ”

What the? Chen Guofang and the others, who were observing the plane, were taken aback when they heard this, and turned their heads to look at the stern of the ship.

"He's going to be hit by a plane!" Mu Shaoqing shouted, and at the same time shouted directly with the intercom: "Li Jian, return to flying immediately!" ”

In the sky, Li Jian, who had already reduced his speed and raised his nose to prepare for the ship, did not hesitate at all when he heard this, and at the same time he lowered his nose and opened the afterburner, the throttle was fully opened, and two orange-red tail flames shot out from the vent, and the J-15, which was still slightly sluggish just now, suddenly rushed forward, and raised his nose again and jumped over the bow of the ship.

"Who was that bastard just now?! Call him up for me! Mu Shaoqing was furious, and originally wanted to directly punish the ground crew wearing the green vest, but after a turn of his mind, he immediately changed his words: "Forget it, tell him to wait in the inner cabin, I don't have time to pay attention to him now, and I'll clean him up later." ”

Li Jian controlled the J-15 to go around in a circle, re-enter the landing procedure, this time there was no accident, very smoothly hooked the blocking cable, after the plane stopped, the ground crew responsible for handling the aircraft rushed up, and hurriedly used the carrier elevator to send the plane to the lower hangar for fixation, and at the same time prepared to welcome the landing of the second plane.

The second and third J-15s also landed, but the weather conditions have become worse and worse, and the maximum speed of the instant gusts has reached 16 meters per second, which has exceeded the minimum landing standard for carrier-based aircraft, coupled with the increasing waves, the undulating flight deck is basically not suitable for landing.

But the problem is that there is still a plane hovering in the sky waiting to land, and there is not much fuel on the plane, it can only fly three times at most, and then it will fall because there is no fuel, and in this case, the tanker cannot take off to provide in-flight refueling for the J-15. Mu Shaoqing frowned, and watched nervously as the J-15, which looked like a lone goose, entered the landing procedure.

"Be careful, a big crosswind blows across the deck on the left, slow down first." In the centralized control room, the landing commander looked at the surveillance video nervously, and the J-15, which had been aimed at the glide path, was blown off the course in a large crosswind of 13 meters per second, and the undulating and crooked hull of the ship also made the surveillance picture look tilted.

"Very well, you go back to the glide path, keep it up." The landing commander stared at the monitoring screen, cheering up the pilot and reminding: "There are still four seconds to touch the ship, four, three, two, one, not good, fly again!" ”

At the moment when the J-15 was about to touch the ship, the huge hull of the aircraft carrier sank down with the waves, and the hook on the tail of the flying shark was not hooked on the blocking cable, and it directly crossed the flight deck, splashing sparks. Raising the nose again and flying over the bow of the aircraft carrier, the pilot turned the plane and prepared to land again.

Due to the special location of the landing of carrier-based aircraft, the landing procedure is also very different from that on land. The runway on land is not only stable, but also long enough that it slows down slowly when landing, and glides down until it stops when it touches the ground. However, the carrier-based aircraft had to complete the landing and stop in a short period of 300 meters, which created a big problem, what to do if there was a landing mistake and needed to go back to flight. There is not such a long runway on the aircraft carrier for the plane to bottom out and glide and then accelerate to take off, once the speed of the landed plane cannot meet the requirements of the go-around, it can only be planted headlong into the sea.

Therefore, in order to avoid this problem, the engine power of the carrier-based aircraft is generally maintained at more than 80% when landing, which is equivalent to accelerating the landing of the ship, and at the same time preparing for a go-around. Whether the plane can stop or not depends on the help of the blocking cable.

When it flies back to the approach point, enters the normal landing procedure, and when it is two kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, controls the altitude at 180 meters, descends slowly, intercepts the glide path information, and adjusts the aircraft's course according to the landing point calculated by the on-board computer, and prepares to land again.

The waves are getting bigger and bigger, the wind is getting more and more urgent, and the hull of the aircraft carrier is undulating and tilting at a certain angle, but this qiē is not at all unknown to the pilots who have just entered the landing procedure in the sky and have just entered the landing procedure. At this height and distance, the huge ship with a draft of more than 10 meters deep, a length of more than 300 meters, and a width of more than 70 meters is the size of a coin.

"Be careful, there's a big crosswind on your right." As soon as the landing commander's words fell, Li Jian felt that his plane was uncontrollably moving to the left, and hurriedly made corrections. In the opinion of Xia Yu and others, the J-15, which was completely deviated by the big side wind, tilted the fuselage and slashed across the side of the flight deck, and even the wings were almost scraped on the deck.

Fortunately, at this time, the deck of the aircraft carrier has been completely cleared, otherwise when the J-15, which was blown away from the course by a large crosswind just now, swept past the parking stand, if there are planes parked on the parking stand, the consequences will naturally be self-evident.

After another go-around, circling into the approach point, the pilot of the J-15 was heavy in his heart, and unconsciously began to be a little nervous, he had no fuel to go back to flying again. If he couldn't land successfully this time, he really couldn't think of any other possibility than a crash.

You have to succeed, because if you don't succeed, you can only become a benevolent.