Airport Meow

Chapter 45
For the current 4607, it is not easy to maintain level flight, the stabilizer is stuck, and the nose keeps tilting down!
In order to counteract the pull-down force of the stabilizer, they used the adjustable fins on both sides of the tail of the elevator, which were connected to the joystick by cables. They pulled desperately, and the fate of the aircraft depended on the strength of their arms!
"Things are getting worse, we have to get the damn stabilizer back on before we go down!"

Pang Li spoke extremely fast, showing his current mood.

The situation is getting more and more complicated. The flight route has already arrived in the middle of Hebei, and it is only 20 minutes away from Donghai Airport. If everything is normal, they are ready to start contacting the air traffic control to prepare for the descent procedure, but now, they still need to make a decision , forced landing at the airport?

Do you still choose Donghai Airport?Or the nearby Tianjing Airport?Or Shizhuang Airport?It depends on how well they control the plane!

Or to put it more bluntly, can the rear wing stabilizer return to normal as expected?
In the last few minutes before making a decision, Captain Pang Lide still hoped to do some troubleshooting and let the plane descend in a normal state!
They slowed down to see what exactly happens after the slowdown?
Pang Lide intends to try again, "I'm going to try the fault switch and the luggage handle again, you hold the plane!"

Bei Haiyang didn't answer!He had some doubts, whether it would be beneficial to continue to try like this?Or is it harmful?

In normal operation, each operation requires a question and an answer from the pilot and co-pilot, and then operate after confirming!But now because of the emergency and similar operations have been done many times, even if Bei Haiyang didn't answer, Pang Lide still reached out to touch the switch!
Subconsciously, Bei Haiyang stretched out his hand to stop his operation!
It takes a lot of courage to take this step. Bei Haiyang has been struggling in his heart, not sure whether he must be right, but after being blocked this time, he knows that he has no way out!

Pang Lide turned his head to look at him, with a hint of anger in surprise, "You disagree?"

Bei Haiyang exhaled, "I disagree!"

The "power gradient" in the cockpit is important!This power gradient should not be too steep—for example, the captain is the vice president of the company in charge of flight, and the co-pilot is a young man who has only flown for 200 hours.This can easily cause the co-pilot to take pictures of the captain's authority and dare not speak up when he finds a problem, which eventually leads to an accident.

And this power gradient can’t be peaceful—one is the newly released captain, and the other is the old co-pilot who is about to be released as the captain. The two entered the company in the same batch, and their qualifications are basically the same. This will easily cause the captain to be unable to establish authority. Influence decisions.

The captain is a cadre, a teacher, an old comrade or has a strong personality, while the co-pilot is a new comrade who has just boarded the plane.Under such a crew arrangement, the captain is wary of monitoring the co-pilot's manipulation actions; while the co-pilot often praises the captain's actions more than criticizing them, imitating them more than inspecting them, even if they find something unusual or inappropriate At first, you will think that this is another flying style!
These are cockpit politics that belong exclusively to the aviation industry!
But if the co-pilot resolutely opposes the captain's order, no matter who is right or wrong in the final result, the co-pilot is bound to be unlucky, ranging from being grounded for a period of time, to being revoked of his flight license, so Bei Haiyang's choice at this time is A road of no return!

"Why?" Pang Lide tried his best to suppress the rising anger in his heart. Now is the time for the two to cooperate sincerely. He didn't expect that this rookie would dare to do this with him!
Bei Haiyang tried his best to explain, "We have tried the faulty switch and the trunk handle three times! It didn't work all three times! So it's a normal trend that the fourth try still doesn't work, and we shouldn't expect too much sudden changes?
After the third attempt, the plane took an inexplicable dive, which must have something to do with our attempt!So I think, maybe it's not the electric motor problem, maybe it's a more serious mechanical failure problem, and it just won't be fixed by restarting the motor! "

Pang Lide was not polite, "You can't be sure of this!"

Bei Haiyang, "That's right, I'm not sure! But what I can be sure of is that if we do another dive just now, we may not be as lucky as last time to pull the plane back!"

What Bei Haiyang actually means is that he is worried that if he continues to try these two switches, something more serious will happen; although it is very bad now, he can barely fly anyway, but if the stabilizer deflects uncontrollably, it will be a miracle. It can't save them!
Pang Lide has already controlled his emotions. He has extremely rich flying experience and can understand Bei Haiyang's worries, but there is no right or wrong in this kind of matter, but the order of dealing with the problems is different!

"What do you mean, just pull the joystick to make an emergency landing? Or at night? Do you know that such an emergency landing is also extremely dangerous. According to the records in aviation history, the success rate is less than [-]%!

Flight safety should focus on proper procedures, not showing off your flying skills!Your instructors should have taught you that the first day you stepped on a plane!

This is not a fighter jet. There are hundreds of lives and we must be responsible for them. This is not the time to be a hero! "

Bei Haiyang didn't back down, "I'll control it, I'm confident! It's better than falling down!"

These are two different philosophies for dealing with critical situations!

Pang Lide's philosophy is to try to eliminate the faults in the air, and then strive for a relatively safe forced landing condition!There may be something wrong with operating those two switches, but it may be nothing, no one can be sure; but from his experience, even if something happens, he can control the dive like last time!

As long as the stabilizer does not fly out, it will be stuck, so how bad can it be?

Bei Haiyang's insistence is that the jamming of the stabilizer is the most unpredictable danger. He doesn't know whether if the electric motor is turned back and forth, the stabilizer will be completely out of control, and there will be a more fatal situation than the current stuck position!
Leveling out after a dive is not so easy to do, and now that the plane is moving slower, the specific environmental conditions have changed!

Therefore, he would rather just get stuck in an emergency landing, at most it would be more dangerous during an emergency landing, because the plane is not easy to control!
But he believes that such bad control is within his ability!

This is the fundamental difference between the two, which cannot be reconciled!
Pang Lide said coldly: "According to Article 17, Article [-], and Article [-] of the pilot's driving rules, I have the right to order you to obey the command of the captain!"

Bei Haiyang refused to give an inch, "According to the latest version of the second revision of the pilot's driving rules, I request full control of flight 4607!"

(End of this chapter)