After thinking about it again, Long Yun felt that there was no better choice at present.

Now that the intention has been basically decided, Long Yun quickly negotiated with the person in charge of the "Starlight", and the two sides then signed a lease contract for the two J-7s.

Considering the current financial situation of "Chenlong", they have only rented it for two months, which is just enough to support until the end of the IFT regional qualifiers; After that, if they can make the cut, it's not too late to talk about the rest of the story.

For renting a model like the J-7 to compete, of course, no one will be wary and will not worry about any threat to themselves; If they had come to lease advanced fighters with considerable combat power this time, it is estimated that things would not have gone so smoothly.

Because the promised flight hours were within the lower limit, after some negotiations, the final rent was agreed on two fighters for a total of 1.1 million yuan for two months, and this price also included the right to use two spare WP-7C engines. Of course, Long Yun felt that with such a small number of hours, he should not be able to use these two backup engines.

For these two fighters that have been out of the factory for a long time, but they are quite well-maintained and relatively affordable, the two of them can be said to be quite satisfied; The so-called acquisition is not a matter of effort, and that's probably it.

"Besides, you always need missiles, right?" The person in charge probably negotiated the main terms, and the mood was relatively relaxed, "It's not a secret, we also have the PL-5 at the bottom of the ballast here, and among the IFT-certified models, the standard air combat mount of the J-7 is it." Since you're going to train and compete, do you need a few shots? ”

"Oh! Yes yes! Let's talk about missiles too! ”

Just thinking about renting a fighter, Long Yun and the others almost forgot about this stubble. Because the performance of these PL-5 missiles is quite limited, it is impossible to use them if you rent an aircraft to experience flying, and the "Starlight" can be regarded as clearing the inventory and idle, and the price of the missiles is quite low.

Hehe, this not only solved the problem of missiles, but also helped people clear their inventory and buy quite affordable things, Long Yun was naturally quite happy. As for the slight capabilities of this missile, he himself is of course well aware of it; Whether they can fight in the group stage depends on the efforts of the two of them!

Write these additional terms clearly, initialize them on both sides and then file them online, and Long Yun prepaid the deposit from the team account he had just opened. This transaction is quite safe, and without other means, the single consciousness snooping technique can ensure that Long Yun will not fall for any liars.

Leaving the "Starlight" team, Long Yun was not idle on the way, but talked to Liu Wei about the simulator.

No matter what kind of savings, the team's pre-game training can't be carried out with real guys, in that case, not to mention the missiles, and even aviation kerosene is not a small expense.

"Brother Long, what do you mean, let's not buy the simulator first?"

"Yes. You think, we now have more than one million in hand, and we are about to use up two-thirds of the fighter jets just by leasing them. Rent a simulator, although it is quite uneconomical," he did a quick mental calculation, "but when we get to the end of the qualifiers, it is estimated that we will use a number of 30,000 or 50,000 yuan, which is still incomparable with buying." ”

"Okay, then use someone else's first! There are so many simulators in the city of Beijing, this thing is easy to do. ”

Liu Wei patted his chest and said that he had played simulators in the simulator teams and clubs in the capital before, so he was naturally quite familiar with this circle.

When it comes to simulators, Liu Wei remembers Long Yun's mock air battle against Ben Calis at the training base, and he is a little eager to try; He had the idea of participating in aviation competitions for a long time, and now that he has started a team with a guy like Long Yun with superb skills, and has the most important fighter guarantee, he has a lot of longing for the upcoming IFT qualifiers.

After a busy day, the next morning, in front of the door of the newly leased hangar of the "Chenlong", the tractor of the "Starlight" delivered two J-7s to the door.

Because they were all in an aviation training center, the handover of fighters was also carried out exceptionally smoothly; The J-7 is inherently small, which means that the trailer can walk a few hundred meters.

The work of receiving fighters, if there were only two people, him and Liu Wei, would not be able to be busy; However, Liu Wei's previous work can be said to be quite in place, in order to save money and find skilled hands, the pilots he knew before came in handy, and the two ground pilots worked with them to send the fighters into the hangar to prepare for testing.

With an extra salary of five hundred yuan a day, these two pilots are still quite motivated; Ground handling is not comparable to competitive players, it does not require any talent and top technology, and of course, it cannot be compared with even a well-known competitive player in terms of income.

After the handover, the small temporary team of the "Chenlong" team immediately started to test the two J-7IIMs that were transported.

In the huge hangar, except for some small equipment necessary for aviation support, the rest of the things were cleaned up and replaced by a body status detector. From the bottom of the small instrument, a large number of wires are connected to several measuring points in each assembly of the fighter in order to obtain detailed information about the structure of the aircraft.

Contrary to what most people think, modern aviation competition has long been out of the dangerous non-stop flight mode of the early days.

The so-called direct flight refers to the direct use of retired fighters from the military, or the purchase of new planes directly from the production plant for training and combat.

Due to the imperfection of the early aircraft industry and the relative backwardness of technology, a large number of aircraft have poor reliability and durability; In addition, the aircraft maintenance, inspection and use conditions of the competitive team are far less professional than those of the Air Force ground crew, which often causes serious flight accidents.

The occasional aviation accidents not only make competition a cause that requires great courage to participate, but also make countries strictly control aviation competition, which is very detrimental to the development of this sunrise sport.

In this context, the establishment of the International Fighter Aircraft Union (IFU) introduced a new model for aviation competition: changing flights.

To put it simply, the so-called flight modification means that after the team purchases the fighter aircraft retired from the armies of various countries or obtained through other means, it must first be greatly modified in accordance with the requirements of IFU, mainly to replace the fly-by-wire/optical control system, install the system stability monitoring module, and a series of spare parts and assemblies supporting modification work.

In short, all competing aircraft need to meet the IFU's certification standards for reliability before they can be approved for service.

The identification of the flight mode is not the same thing as the IFT participation test; The former is that all fighters that flow into the civilian sector and participate in competitions must be compulsorily certified, and those fighters that cannot pass are directly not allowed to go to the sky; The latter is to ensure that the technical level of the participating models is relatively consistent, and the fighters that cannot pass are not allowed to participate in the competition.

In this context, the newly received fighter of the "Chenlong" can ensure basic flight safety as long as it passes the guò IFU unified interface module test, which can be said to be very convenient.

Of course, Long Yun had just entered the industry at this time, and he didn't know much about it. But when he really participated in the testing process, he realized that this time the loan can be said to be quite lucky, and it was a big bargain.