Chapter 206: Reaching the World's Highest City!
Xiao Ning did play the game of micro hard flight simulation, and this extremely hardcore flight simulation game did teach him a lot.
But a game is a game after all, and even if it is so hardcore that it can't be completely called a game's micro-hard flight simulation, in the end, it still can't really let ordinary people fully grasp all the knowledge of flying an airplane.
And the reason why Xiao Ning was able to do it easily in the processes that Coach Zhao went through before was because as early as when he told Red Bull about the content of the "Mira Mountain Project", he had already spent 30 free skill points to point the [Aircraft Pilot] skill to the master level.
After lunch, after a short break of forty minutes, Xiao Ning followed Coach Zhao directly to the tarmac.
got on the training plane, and Coach Zhao gave Xiao Ning science one by one with a conscientious mentality, and those various instruments and levers that Xiao Ning had actually been tired of seeing in the simulated space.
After the ground crew helped close the canopy, the brakes of the propeller trainer were hung by Coach Zhao, and then the engine started, and then the brakes were lifted to start pushing the plane out.
After the plane was pushed out on the ground to the starting point of the take-off runway, Coach Zhao continued to give Xiao Ning various explanations while operating.
Which lever is the throttle, how to operate the steering, how to visualize the runway......
Eventually, the plane taxied off the runway, and after the speed was right, Coach Zhao pulled the plane up.
When the training plane was climbing at altitude, Coach Zhao was still telling Xiao Ning a lot of details in the spirit of a professional flight instructor.
Although Xiao Ning understands all of what Coach Zhao said, even more than Coach Zhao, Xiao Ning has always maintained the greatest humility throughout the whole process.
Whenever Coach Zhao talks about some details, Xiao Ning will not only nod, but also raise some of his own questions in a timely manner to cooperate with Coach Zhao's teaching.
This is true for take-off, as well as for cruising attitude after reaching a predetermined altitude.
For a period of time, the situation in the trainer is like a gold giving a lecture to the king, and for some reason, the king has to keep repeating "ah, yes, yes, yes" to match the gold's performance.
Fortunately, after flying flat for a while, after the trainer plane reached the area of gentle airflow, Coach Zhao finally handed over the control of the plane to Xiao Ning temporarily.
In the normal process of learning to fly, when the instructor thinks that the trainees have the ability to operate the aircraft, they will usually let them experience the control of the aircraft in a certain section of the airflow stable airspace in level flight, so as to help the trainees find the feeling of flying the aircraft.
However, in this case, the control of the aircraft is not actually handed over to the trainees.
After all, any small thing in heaven is a big thing.
If the trainee makes a mistake, the instructor will take over the control of the aircraft as quickly as possible.
At this time, after Xiao Ning took over the control of the plane, in order to reassure Coach Zhao, he was operating the plane according to Coach Zhao's instructions at first.
Turn and maneuver the plane a little higher and then a little down, and experience cruising ......
After a series of processes, Xiao Ning didn't see any other planes around him all the way, so he asked out loud: "Coach Zhao, as far as I know, there should be no civil aviation or air force routes here at the base, right?" Should all of this airspace belong to the flight base? ”
Coach Zhao nodded: "Yes, usually the coach of the base will fly here, if it is only in the vicinity of the base that has been reported, we don't need to report extra." ”
"At this point in time, are there any other planes in the sky besides us?"
"At this time, there is really no, generally our students who enter the school according to the class actually operate in the morning, you are equivalent to asking for a private tutor...... It's up to you to set the time......" Coach Zhao said this, and then asked: "How are you feeling now?" Although you have been very experienced in theory and simulation before, I feel that you are still a little nervous after actually going to heaven. ”
Xiao Ning said casually: "A little." ”
"Actually, there's no need to be nervous, I'm here."
"Let's make another big corner turn near the signal tower in front of us."
Coach Zhao smiled and pointed to the signal tower not far in front of the front windshield.
The tower wasn't that tall.
But the current altitude of this training aircraft is also not high.
Xiao Ning could clearly see the signal tower not far away.
Although he really wanted to operate this trainer to play a dive signal tower and then pull it up, or to play a low-profile version of the "hammerhead maneuver" while grazing the signal tower, once he did this, Coach Zhao, who had no knowledge of his flying and piloting skills, was bound to take over the plane immediately.
The only way to do this is to abandon the idea.
Subsequently, whether it was turning around the signal tower or on the way back, Xiao Ning also fully cooperated with Coach Zhao.
The flight ended with landing.
Xiao Ning actually had a lost hope in his heart.
He specially paid to experience airplane piloting, but he really didn't come here to learn any technology.
His main purpose is because although the [Aircraft Piloting] skill has been pointed out by him to the master level, in fact, in addition to flying various types of aircraft countless times in the system simulation learning space, he has not touched any aircraft in reality and entered the cabin of any aircraft.
This trip is just to experience it casually and make sure that it is no different from everything I have learned.
The secondary purpose is to be able to fly on a relatively large scale in reality, and it is best to be able to follow those aerobatic skills.
In fact, this flight only achieved Xiao Ning's main purpose, and the secondary purpose was limited by Coach Zhao, who could take over the flight at any time, and could not achieve it.
Disappointment to disappointment.
Such disappointment had been expected long before Xiao Ning came here.
After all, the flying lessons of this flying club are formal courses, and everything must comply with flight safety rules and regulations.
For example, in the past, when Xie Bin made some very excessive requests, Xiao Ning could still try to use money offensive, but in this situation, he stuffed money to Coach Zhao not only failed to achieve his goal, but may affect Coach Zhao's work.
Here, after Xiao Ning digested that little bit of disappointment, with the satisfaction of feeling a flight in reality, not long after leaving, Coach Zhao, who was resting in an indoor air-conditioned room, swiped a piece of news about Xiao Ning on the comics.
[The well-known singer Xiao Ning is about to launch an extreme sports challenge in Mira Mountain! ] 】
After knowing more details through the comments of netizens in the comment area below this video news, Coach Zhao was not calm.
"He ......"
"He's going to fly a plane through the Mira Mountain Tunnel?"
Coach Zhao casually searched the internal pictures of the Mira Mountain Tunnel on his mobile phone, and after making up the picture of himself flying in such a narrow tunnel with a plane, he was so frightened that his muscles trembled.
"Crazy, crazy, right?!"
"This Xiao Ning is crazy!"
In Coach Zhao's opinion, Xiao Ning is indeed crazy.
It's still ridiculously crazy.
You say he's an old pilot who has been flying for many years, but the key is that he doesn't even have a pilot's license!
Just in heaven at that time! It was even the first time he had ever operated an airplane!
"A person who is not even as good as an ordinary flight cadet wants to fly a plane through a mountain tunnel in the plateau area?"
"Fantasy doesn't even write like this!"
"So ......"
"Did he just feel fun flying in the sky, and he casually thought of such a challenge to carry out with a slap of his head?"
Originally, Coach Zhao's shock was already full, but he suddenly realized a more critical point according to the date of the relevant news!
Xiao Ning proposed or Red Bull officially announced the time of this challenge, which is not today at all!
That is to say!
Xiao Ning had never controlled the plane at all, and he had already discussed with the Red Bull side to carry out such a challenge of piloting the plane through the Mira Mountain Tunnel!
"Isn't this nonsense?"
"Xiao Ning is crazy......"
"Are all the Red Bull people crazy?"
"He doesn't even have a pilot's license! How dare you let him fly a plane? ”
In fact, Coach Zhao's idea is not unreasonable.
In the next two days, all the members of the "Mira Hill Project Team" on the Austrian Red Bull side were actually very worried.
Although Xiao Ning had a long and in-depth conversation with the flight experts of the Mira Mountain project team in a previous video conference, at least on all theoretical-related questions, Xiao Ning's answers and thoughts were very consistent with the identity of an aerobatic pilot.
But everyone in the project team knew very well that Xiao Ning had clearly told everyone before that he did not have such a "pilot license".
And Xiao Ning's own flying and piloting skills are only used "I learned it in Hawaii before", which sounds unreliable and sounds like a joke.
Therefore, the thoughts of the people of Red Bull are similar to those of Coach Zhao two days ago.
Everyone is currently skeptical about Xiao Ning's aircraft piloting skills.
Red Bull Austria released the fourth day of the "Mira Hill Project" preview on its official Weibo account.
After the efforts of the Mira Hill Challenge project team and the Red Bull Extreme Sports division, the Zivko Edge 520 V2, which was requested by Shawning, has been converted and flight tested.
After discussions between the Mira Hill Challenge project team and Shawning, the modified aircraft was transported directly to the vicinity of the Mira Hill Tunnel on the same day.
The plane will arrive tomorrow evening.
Originally, on Red Bull's side, whether it was Chen Qing, the head of the project team, or Zou Yitian, the vice president, they persuaded Xiao Ning to wait for two more days.
After learning from the staff of the project team that the challenge had been approved, Xiao Ning had already set off for XZ before the plane was delivered.
Because the plane was not delivered, and the destination was really far away from Jiangcheng.
So this journey to that side was divided into two parts by Xiao Ning.
The first part is to reach Litang County in the western part of Sichuan Province.
After arriving in Litang, in order to let fans not worry, Xiao Ning briefly held a live broadcast of the meeting on Weibo.
"Family."
"Reach the highest city in the world."
"Litang."
After casually saying a few words to let everyone know that they had arrived in Litang, Xiao Ning, who looked at the vast number of "1" and "5" in the barrage, only felt incomprehensible, and after resting for two or three hours, he followed some of the staff of the Red Bull Mira Mountain project team to the helicopter.
Eventually, Shawning arrived at Mount Mira hours ahead of schedule, before the converted aerobatic plane arrived.
In the hours that the plane did not arrive.
Xiao Ning first drove back and forth in the Mt. Mira Tunnel several times by himself, and then walked along the road outside the tunnel by the way, and then followed the Red Bull helicopter in the air to familiarize himself with everything about Mount Mira from all angles.
This whole process didn't add up to a long time.
After the third observation of a position over Mount Mira, Xiao Ning offered to end this preparation.
Because he already knows the route, the flight situation, the tunnel situation, etc.
In this regard, all the Red Bull staff of the Mira Hill project team were speechless for a while.
Flying an extra-long tunnel through an ultra-highland area like this is one of the most important extreme challenges planned by Red Bull's extreme sports department.
Based on their past experience, a heavyweight project like this basically takes months or even more than a year to prepare.
Even most of this preparation time is spent on "venues", "facilities", "approvals", "equipment" and so on.
But the athletes themselves are bound to spend a lot of time doing their homework.
However, now he has only run so many times, and after a few laps in the sky, Xiao Ning directly told the big guy that he was ready, and when the plane arrived tomorrow, he would officially start the challenge.
So what can everyone think?
It's not like people who work at Red Bull haven't seen people who are bold and not afraid of death, but people who are so eager to die.
It's really just Xiao Ning.
In the end, Xiao Ning proposed the idea of starting the challenge directly tomorrow morning.
The staff of Red Bull could only be dumbfounded.
No one dares to say yes.
No one dared to say no.
If you can, if something really happens, Red Bull will have to be unlucky!
After all, in order to reach approval conditions with the local government this time, Red Bull paid a big price.
Not only did it sign a guarantee agreement to guarantee that all economic losses and tunnel maintenance losses in the event of any problems in the tunnel will be compensated by Red Bull.
Red Bull has also pledged to license the documentary of the challenge to the local authorities indefinitely as a promotional video for Monte Mira to promote local tourism.
Ultimately.
It was Chen Qing, the head of the project team, who stood up.
"I don't believe it anymore."
"He can break the world record while lying down on the longboard, so even if he doesn't have a pilot's license, he has seen the route in advance, the time to get acquainted with Mt. Mira is very short, and he looks like he is in a hurry to die, etc., it should be reasonable to successfully complete the challenge of crossing the Mt. Mira tunnel, right?"
"Reasonable! It has to be reasonable! ”
With such an idea, Chen Qing directly informed everyone in the team and challenged according to the time chosen by Xiao Ning.
Following.
Four forty a.m.
It was still dawn, but there was still moonlight.
But the Red Bull staff of the entire Mira Hill project team are already busy around Mira Hill.
The modified Zivko Edge 520 V2 aerobatic plane, which arrived last night, is parked on the road beyond the entrance to the tunnel on the side of Mount Mira!
The blue fuselage paint is quietly reflecting a glimmer of light with the moonlight in the sky.
(End of chapter)