Return to 2000: Captain of the Great Powers

Chapter 85 Emergency!Thunderstorms are all around, and lightning is added! (Please subscribe!)
The next day, Xu Cang, who had a good sleep, was full of energy. Every time he thought that he could get more than seven hours of experience time today, Xu Cang felt extremely excited.In today's stage where the number of flights is greatly reduced, there is really no better harvest than this.

As usual, Xu Cang arrived earlier than most crew members.Originally, he was planning to go to the dispatching room upstairs to thank them for leaving such a good shift to him, but when he went in, he saw no one at all. He remembered that Yue Hai should be on duty today, why isn't he on duty?
However, Xu Cang didn't get too entangled, he didn't want to wait too much, he didn't fly much in Urumqi, not much in the real sense, even with the experience of later generations.

It's not that Urumqi Airport is so special, purely according to the development, Xu Cang will return to Department 121 in the East China Bureau's jurisdiction in the later period, and there are very few routes from the eastern region to Urumqi.When there were more routes in the future, Xu Cang began to engage in a lot of administrative work again, and the opportunities for flying were correspondingly reduced too much, and naturally there were fewer flights to Urumqi.

Xu Cang actually felt a little pity. He didn't have a deep impression of Urumqi Airport, but his experience of staying overnight in Urumqi was still impressive.

The barbecue in Urumqi, especially the mutton barbecue is really better than other places in China.At that time, the co-pilot who spent the night with Xu Cang in Urumqi was a native of Urumqi, and he especially recommended lamb kidneys to Xu Cang.However, the taste of Xu Cang, who was born and raised in the eastern region, can't accept heavy-tasting things like lamb kidneys, even though the co-pilot tried his best to persuade him that it was a rare delicacy.

In fact, lamb kidneys were already a relatively conservative recommendation for the co-pilot. If Xu Cang knew that there were roasted lamb eyes and lamb whips in Urumqi, he didn't know what expression he would have on his face.

In addition, Xu Cang also likes the fruits in Urumqi very much. They are really moist and sweet, so that even if he has no chance to go to Urumqi later, if he has a chance, he will ask the crew flying to Urumqi to help pick up some grapes, watermelons, etc. fruit back.

It's a pity that the flight to Wushi this time is just a standard stop, not even a big stop, and there is no time to go out for a little shopping.

After completing the alcohol test and taking the pre-flight information, Xu Cang was thinking about the characteristics of Wushi Airport.To be reasonable, there is indeed nothing worthy of special attention at Urumqi Airport.Except for the Huola Mountain in the west, the airport is flat on three sides, and all standard approach and go-around procedures do not pass through the west, so the terrain threat is relatively small.

This field is run on a single runway, with blind descent systems at both ends, and the descent gradient is 5.2%, which is quite a standard descent gradient.The final approach fix is ​​located on the five sides ten nautical miles away from the field, with a restricted altitude of 900 meters.There are no terrain obstacles below the entire final descent stage, so there is no need to consider the need to delay the interception of the descent.

The only thing to note is that the airflow around Urumqi Airport is often unstable, and the influence of heavy fog should also be considered during this season.However, Xu Cang looked at the weather reports, and there was no heavy fog in Urumqi, but thunderstorms were expected.

Of course, this kind of predictive weather report is not a golden rule. If there is thunderstorm coverage, there will be thunderstorm coverage. The dispatcher will combine various information to decide whether to release or give more extra fuel.

So far, the dispatcher has not called to say that the departure is delayed or the flight is cancelled, and there is a high probability that we still have to leave.

When Xu Cang was thinking about the satellite cloud image, there was some noise coming from the side. Xu Cang looked at the door and saw a captain with four stripes dragging a box to this side.

"Fly to Wushi?" The captain approached Xu Cang, stretched his head and glanced at the task book on the table.

Xu Cang nodded: "Captain, you are flying to Wushi."

"Oh." The captain clicked his lips, pulled the task book over, looked at it carefully, then let out an inexplicable laugh, and turned to look at Xu Cang: "Are you Xu Cang?"

This time it was a three-man crew with two co-pilots, and the captain wasn't sure which one Xu Cang was.

"That's right, captain! I'm Xu Cang."

"So you are Xu Cang." The captain glanced at Xu Cang with a half-smile, and there seemed to be a hint of sarcasm on his face.No matter how you listen to the suddenly enlightened voice after discovering Xu Cang's true identity, there is something wrong with it.

Xu Cang was not a fool, he could tell that the captain's attitude towards him was obviously abnormal, but he couldn't figure out what the reason was.

The captain shrugged, put down the flight case and went to drink alcohol test, while Xu Cang touched his face, and felt that there was nothing foreign.

Before Xu Cang figured out what was wrong, the first co-pilot also came over.Xu Cang greeted the first co-pilot very politely, but the first co-pilot didn't respond, and went straight to the wine test place after putting down the flight case.

Xu Cang was sure that his volume was not the kind of gnat-like movement, and he could definitely be heard. The first co-pilot was clearly ignoring him.

When the first co-pilot walked to the place where the alcohol test was done, he happened to meet the captain who had finished the alcohol test. A smile instantly appeared on the expressionless faces of the two of them, as if they had changed their faces. They got together and said something. There are laughing ones.

Xu Cang was not interested in observing the chat between the captain and the first co-pilot, but he occasionally noticed from the corner of his eye that the captain and the first co-pilot would look at him in the same direction from time to time when they were chatting.

This is a very directional action.If the abnormal behavior of the captain and the first co-pilot in front just made Xu Cang feel a little doubt, then now Xu Cang can be sure that something happened that he didn't know, and it's very possible that something he didn't know It's for yourself.

The question is. What is it?
Xu Cang stopped looking at the captain and co-pilot, but silently made pre-flight preparations.

Not long after, the first co-pilot finished the alcohol test and came over with the captain.It's just that when they walked to Xu Cang's side, the two who were still chatting vigorously fell silent immediately, which meant it was self-evident.

Even though he knew that there were some problems that he didn't know about, Xu Cang didn't pay much attention to them, and reported the fuel quantity, weather, aircraft reservation and NOTAM to the captain according to the usual procedures.

After hearing Xu Cang finished the long conversation, the captain just hummed, and his attitude was very indifferent.

The captain didn't talk to the first co-pilot, and they naturally didn't talk to Xu Cang either. Now the three of them fell into a strange silence.It was so weird that even the dispatch seats and data seats not far away felt that there was something wrong with it.

Fortunately, this atmosphere did not last long. With the arrival of the crew, there was finally some movement around.

There were a total of six crew members, and when they got together, the air was filled with fragrance.Compared with men's perfume, Xu Cang is more acceptable to use it on women. Even if the fragrance is stronger, it is still acceptable.

"Captain, please give me instructions?" The flight attendant handed the captain a card for crew cooperation, and the words were soft and sticky, and it sounded like the bones were going to be crisp.

It is said that Wenxiang nephrite can turn Bailian steel into soft fingers, it is really not a lie.

The captain blinked at the flight attendant, took the crew cooperation card, and glanced at the crew members, with a little surprise on his face: "There are so many people today?"

Reasonably speaking, five flight attendants are enough for this flight. With the stingy nature of Blue Sky Airlines, it can still exceed the standard operation?

The purser smiled lightly and said, "Take the students today."

As he spoke, his brows and eyes turned, and he landed on a weak figure at the end of the crowd.

As soon as this action came out, even Xu Cang followed him to look over, but with just one glance, he found that he still knew the student mentioned by the purser, and it was Xia Shuyue who had helped him before.

Xia Shuyue seemed to want to hide herself in the crowd, Xu Cang would not have even noticed Xia Shuyue's existence if the purser hadn't signaled her.

Originally, I planned to be an ostrich like this, but now the flight attendant pointed it out in public, so I could only say softly: "Hello, captain."

The captain, who noticed Xia Shuyue's existence, fell into a moment of absent-mindedness. He didn't come back to his senses until Xia Shuyue made a sound, and hurriedly nodded in response: "Well, okay!"

Among the gorgeous flight attendants, Xia Shuyue's pure and pure temperament really stood out from the crowd.

However, this also made Xia Shuyue notice Xu Cang.After being a little surprised, Xia Shuyue's jewel-like eyes bent into a pair of crescent moons, adding a touch of cuteness.

The captain, who was already amazed by Xia Shuyue, was completely stunned, while Xu Cang looked a little unnatural, such a beautiful woman, but it was hard to bear.

When the captain realized that his performance was a bit too explicit, he immediately calmed down and carried out normal pre-flight coordination.

Originally it was just a normal coordination link, but when it came to the order of power succession in the cockpit, the captain followed the rank of the captain, and the power was replaced in order of the captain, the first co-pilot, and finally Xu Cang.

There is absolutely no problem with this order, but when Xu Cang was mentioned at the end, a smile appeared on the captain's face inexplicably, and his tone became strange.

After what the captain said, the flight attendant looked at Xu Cang in surprise: "So you are Xu Cang?"

When she was checking the mission statement just now, she only paid attention to the staffing of the flight crew, but did not look at the names of the flight crew.

As soon as Xu Cang's identity was revealed, even the flight crew began to laugh, and even two flight attendants smiled and whispered.

This is so weird!

After the coordination was over, the crew went back to the crew preparation room first, while Xu Cang followed suit with the excuse that he needed to go to the bathroom.

After catching up with the crew, Xu Cang pulled past Xia Shuyue who was at the back of the line.At first Xia Shuyue was grabbed suddenly by someone, but she was still taken aback, turned around and found it was Xu Cang, and finally let Xu Cang pull her away.

Xu Cang directly pulled him to the empty stairwell, saw that there was no one around, he quickly let go of his hand, and first apologized: "Sorry, I have something to ask you."

Xia Shuyue didn't care, she just stood there pretty, waiting for Xu Cang to ask her a question.

Seeing Xia Shuyue being so cute, Xu Cang blushed and coughed: "When the captain mentioned me just now, I saw you were all laughing. What are you laughing at?"

Hearing this, Xia Shuyue didn't answer immediately, but waved her hands quickly: "I didn't laugh, I didn't."

"I know you didn't laugh, I just asked what the reason is, I feel very strange, is there something I don't know?"

"Brother, don't you know?" Xia Shuyue was a little puzzled.

Now Xu Cang frowned even more: "What's the matter?"

"It's like this." Xia Shuyue organized her words a little bit: "This morning, we received a notice here. If there is something to report in the future, cross-level or cross-departmental, especially cross-departmental is not allowed. Only The matter can be reported to the squadron first, and then the squadron will summarize and report to the corresponding place."

"This?" Xu Cang didn't seem to feel any problem after hearing what Xia Shuyue said, "Then, what does it have to do with me?"

Asked by Xu Cang, Xia Shuyue hesitated, not knowing how to answer.But in the end, under the urging of Xu Cang, he explained the situation: "Because it is rumored that this announcement was made because you went to find the vice president of maintenance alone. Some people think you are after knowing it."

At the end, Xia Shuyue couldn't continue talking.

Xu Cang said coldly: "What did they say about me?"

Xia Shuyue murmured softly: "They said brother, you meddle in your own business."

Xu Cang was taken aback for a moment, recalling the expressions of the captain and co-pilot now, I am afraid that the reason for the abnormal reaction of those two to Xu Cang was also due to this reason.

"Meddling your own business?" Xu Cang really didn't know what to say.

Seeing Xu Cang's lonely expression, Xia Shuyue hastily comforted her, "Brother, don't listen to their nonsense."

"It's not just the flight attendants who think so, it seems that the flight crew thinks so too, meddle in your own business?" Xu Cang waved his hand: "It's okay, you can go."

"Brother, are you okay?" Looking at Xu Cang's expression, Xia Shuyue was a little worried.

"It's okay." After Xu Cang finished speaking, he walked out of the stairwell, leaving only Xia Shuyue with a worried face.

After a while, Xia Shuyue returned to the crew preparation room, and saw that other people were already packing their bags and preparing to enter the venue.Seeing Xia Shuyue come back, the purser asked casually, "What's your relationship with that co-pilot named Xu Cang, boyfriend and girlfriend?"

Xia Shuyue blushed: "No, no, ordinary friends."

"Ordinary friends are fine!" The purser snorted: "He has a bad reputation now, don't get too close to him, if you want to find a pilot, there are plenty of them."

"Sister, what are you talking about." Xia Shuyue was very shy: "However, I think Xu Cang did nothing wrong. Why is everyone treating him like this?"

It can only be said that beautiful women are loved everywhere, and the purser touched Xia Shuyue's head meaningfully: "Because he can't figure out his position."

"But."

Xia Shuyue still wanted to say something for Xu Cang, but was interrupted by the flight attendant: "Stop talking, let's enter the arena!"

Except for feeling a little sad at the beginning, Xu Cang, who learned everything, did not have any particularly big mood swings.He has a lot of things to do, and he won't die because of this trivial matter.

But Xu Cang is also a human being, even if he doesn't care much, he still feels a little annoyed after receiving the strange looks from the people around him.

Originally, the captain and the first co-pilot were silent when Xu Cang was in the cockpit, but Jianchuan was too far away from Urumqi, and it took more than three hours. There was no sound at all, it was really dull.

Until the last hour or so, the captain couldn't hold back any longer. He nestled in his seat, coughed twice, and turned his head back: "Xu Cang, have you read the announcement?"

The captain didn't specify which announcement, but Xu Cang knew it in his heart, so he just said in a low voice: "I didn't read it, but I heard it from others."

At this time, the first co-pilot also turned around and asked Xu Cang with a smile: "Then it's true that you went directly to the maintenance vice president. I heard it was for 1566?"

Seeing the smiling face of the first co-pilot, Xu Cang felt uncomfortable, so he hummed lightly without saying anything.

"1566?" The captain was still excited, and the smile on his face was even bigger: "I heard that you will be forced to transfer to a ground position by the company, and you have conducted a route assessment, but you took off and rubbed the tail of the aircraft during the assessment. , It was the 1566 that was flying at that time, right? I said Xu Cang, you are not trying to make up for yourself by wiping the tail of the plane, right? Also. You have already wiped the tail of the plane, why do you continue to fly? What do you have? Is there a way?"

After the captain finished speaking, he glanced at the first co-pilot, and immediately laughed. The cockpit was filled with a cheerful atmosphere, which was completely different from the dull feeling not long ago.

In this situation, even a person with such a temper as Xu Cang began to look gloomy.

The captain may have found that arranging Xu Cang in this way is also an excellent means of entertainment. Anyway, Xu Cang is the second officer, so there is no need to worry about the consequences.

"Xu Cang, I'm really surprised how you came up with the idea of ​​going directly to the vice president of maintenance." The captain grinned, looking quite interested: "Do you think the vice president of maintenance is idle, or do you think you have a lot of weight?" Heavy. Don’t get me wrong, I just want to understand your thought process, because it’s really hard for me to understand.”

When the captain was speaking, the first co-pilot also added: "It's really the first time I've seen this brain circuit."

After the two finished speaking, another burst of wanton laughter broke out.

"Captain, is this really a funny thing?" Even though he knew it was inappropriate to say so, Xu Cang couldn't help it: "I hope everyone can fly a safe plane, this is really the case Is it funny?"

To be honest, how could Xu Cang not know that as a pilot, it would be wrong to go directly to the vice president of maintenance.But compared to leaving hidden dangers to the pilots behind, he felt nothing wrong with it.

If he reported layer by layer according to the usual process, he wouldn't even be able to get out of the flight department.

As soon as the words came out, the captain immediately heard the dissatisfaction in Xu Cang's words, and also restrained his smile, and said with a sneer: "It seems that you are not only bad at being a man, but also bad at speaking, and your EQ is really low."

Many times, failure to follow established rules can be seen as low EQ.But is this really the golden rule that can be regarded as a treasure?

However, the captain's attention was quickly attracted by the first officer.The first co-pilot pointed to a large area of ​​weather on the navigation display and asked, "Brother, how do you go around?"

The captain stared at Xu Cang fiercely, then withdrew his gaze, and then looked at the weather display.

On weather radar, the plane's path was blocked ahead by a large patch of bad weather.The weather is roughly in the shape of a long strip running from north to south, and it contains a lot of red danger areas, which is really not easy to get around.

At this time, the weather radar did not have an automatic mode, and the pilot could only rely on the pilot to manually change the scanning angle of the weather radar to know the specific conditions of the weather.

The captain showed that he had adjusted the scanning angle to zero degrees, so the weather that was originally a large area disappeared suddenly, which indicated that most of the weather was below the plane, and there was not much weather on the level of the plane or higher than the plane.

Looking at it this way, there is a little space for flying around in the airspace that was originally blocked.Because there is a seam about five to ten nautical miles wide in the area on the right side of the route, unlike other areas that are either red or yellow, it is not displayed at all here, and it is too clean.

The captain raised his head and looked outside. At this time, the plane was in the clouds and could not be seen with the naked eye, so he gave up the idea of ​​making a decision with the naked eye.

The captain was very democratic. He pointed to the gap and asked the first co-pilot for advice: "Let's go around here, how about it?"

At present, this is indeed the only way to fly around.Of course, if you make up your mind to go around a little more, you can get out.However, this is a little more than usual.

In this case, the first co-pilot had no objection and agreed with the captain's opinion. Only Xu Cang felt a little bit problematic in the back.

Such a large piece of weather is obviously at the stage of mature development, and it should have been completely connected. How can there be such a clean gap?
Seeing that the first co-pilot agreed, the captain did not immediately make a decision, but asked the area control in advance: "Ushi, is there any restriction on the weather behind the P37 ahead?"

"Turn to the right, the left is the restricted area."

The captain's planned flight was to turn to the right, which was exactly in line with his wishes, and he was right in his arms: "Then can I fly a heading of 300? Fly about [-] nautical miles."

"Lantian 9211, are you going to go through the weather from a heading of 300? I see that the plane in front turned right and went around to a heading of 350."

"Course 350?" The captain pondered the weather display: "Course 350, how far did they circle?"

A heading of 350 is to go completely around the weather, not through it.It's just that the weather in this area is very big, how far do you have to go around if you want to go around completely?
Sure enough, the area control side gave an astonishing figure: "The front plane circled almost 150 nautical miles!"

150 nautical miles, then it will take [-] nautical miles to go back and forth, which is an exaggerated flying distance.

"When did the previous flight pass?" the captain continued to ask.

"About twenty minutes."

"Two 10 minutes." The captain pondered for a while, but still felt that he could not accept the heading 350: "Ushi, the heading 350 is too far to go around, and it is still in the lower division. If I go around now, it is estimated that I will go around 300 nautical miles. If it’s too far away, I might get nervous. I’d better fly towards [-].”

The reason why the controller proactively reminded Lantian 9211 was because he saw from the radar that heading 300 should also have weather.However, the weather radar they control is not as accurate as the crew can see, everything is still subject to the crew's decision.

"Lantian 9211, you can fly heading 300. However, if you fly heading 300, within [-] nautical miles, the left and right maneuvers are only ten degrees, and there are small restricted areas on both sides. Is it acceptable?"

The captain pondered for a while: "Yes! I can guarantee that the maneuvering heading is within ten degrees to the left and right. Ushi, then I will change the heading to 300 now."

After the control agreed, the captain was just about to change the course, when Xu Cang reminded him from behind: "Captain, why don't we change the course to 350. Could the gap in front be the shadow of the radar?"

In some areas of extremely high precipitation, the weather radar signal cannot be reflected back, resulting in shadowed areas.There is no weather display in this shaded area. It is not that there is no weather here, but that the weather here is too strong.

"Radar Shadow, what are you talking about?" The captain didn't even know the term Radar Shadow, and was still complaining about Xu Cang's talkativeness.

In fact, it is normal. In this era, the shadow concept of weather radar is still unclear, and many pilots do not know it.

Xu Cang immediately said: "Captain, I mean the weather may be stronger ahead, don't fly there."

"Then make a [-] nautical mile circle, and then the fuel is insufficient?" The captain was obviously annoyed: "Xu Cang, you can just stay behind as a second officer, don't be self-righteous and express some ignorant opinions."

With that said, the captain completely ignored Xu Cang's suggestion and directly turned the heading knob to 300.

In fact, Xu Cang himself is not sure whether the area in front is a radar shadow, what if it is really a relatively clean area developed after the front plane passed by?

Moreover, flying around two hundred nautical miles, a total of nearly four hundred nautical miles will indeed cause a relatively large problem with the amount of fuel on the plane.However, if Xu Cang was the captain, he would still choose heading 350 even if he faced the problem of fuel quantity.

It's a pity that the captain is not him, so he can't make the decision.

When he was about to enter that airspace, Xu Cang adjusted the transmitter of his audio panel to the passenger broadcast, notified that the cabin was about to encounter turbulence, and asked all the people in the cabin to sit down.

The captain was supposed to be responsible for this matter, but Xu Cang saw that the captain didn't have such a plan, he had to prepare for the worst situation in advance.

Regarding Xu Cang's initiative to broadcast to passengers, the captain only gave four words: "Mind your own business."

Xu Cang didn't care what the captain said, but stared at the radar display intently.It was still foggy outside the windshield, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

As the plane penetrated into the airspace, for some reason, it was still daytime, and the surrounding area was still bright even though it was covered by clouds and fog.However, almost in an instant, day and night were reversed, and the outside world dimmed in an instant.

Xu Cang's heart tightened, and a bad feeling immediately occupied his thoughts. At the moment when he was about to call out to return, there was a sudden flash between the sky and the earth, and the entire windshield was submerged in incomparable light.

The strong light reflected Xu Cang's pale and bloodless face, just like the desperate sound of the sky exploded in his ears!

Xu Cang's mind went blank: "It's over!"

(End of this chapter)