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Chapter 184: Flying on the 'high plateau' route, the conditions are harsh
Generally speaking.

Civil aviation routes can be divided into three categories: international routes, domestic routes and regional routes.

International routes refer to routes connecting two or more countries.

But if it is across continents, it is also called an intercontinental long-distance route.

Intercontinental long-distance routes and international routes have an inclusive relationship, which means that intercontinental long-distance routes must be international routes, but international routes are not necessarily intercontinental long-distance routes.

Domestic routes refer to routes within a country, which are divided into three categories: trunk routes, branch routes and local routes.

Trunk routes refer to routes connecting the capital with provincial capitals, municipalities directly under the Central Government, autonomous region capitals or cities under each province or autonomous region, such as the capital - Shanghai, Chengdu - Qianyang, etc.

Regional routes are routes between cities within provinces and autonomous regions. For example, Rongcheng-Mianyang, Qianyang-Bozhou.

As for local routes, they are even more special.

Regional routes refer to routes within a country that connect ordinary areas and special areas, such as routes between the mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

In addition, routes can also be divided into fixed routes and temporary routes. Temporary routes are usually not allowed to intersect with air routes, fixed routes or pass through airports with frequent flights.

In addition to the above routes, there is another route that is more special.

That is the plateau route and the high plateau route.

In the international civil aviation community, there is actually a strict definition for airports located in high-altitude areas.

把位于海拔高度1500米（5000英尺）以上2483米（8000英尺）以下的机场称之为高原机场；把位于海拔高度2483米（8000英尺）以上的机场称之为“高高原”机场。

Correspondingly, routes involving plateau airports and "high plateau" airports are also called plateau routes and "high plateau" routes.

Although the altitude of plateau routes is relatively high, it is not much different from ordinary routes, so airlines do not treat plateau routes with caution.

But the 'High Plateau' route is different.

Because the lowest altitude of the 'High Plateau' route has exceeded 2483 meters, the higher the altitude, the thinner the air, and the more various uncontrollable factors.

The world's "high plateau" airports are mainly distributed in countries with plateaus such as China, Nepal, Peru, and Ecuador.

Among the 10 highest civil airports in the world, 8 are in Xia.

These eight airports are all located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Daocheng Yading Airport, located in Sichuan and Shu Province, is the highest civilian airport in the world, with an altitude of an astonishing 4411 meters.

Due to the high altitude of the 'high plateau' airport, the air is thin, the air density is low, and the resistance is also small.

Moreover, at the same speed, the lift obtained by the aircraft wings is smaller than that at a plain airport.

Therefore, the take-off and landing distances of aircraft at 'high plateau' airports are relatively long.

This determines that the 'high plateau' airport must have a longer runway.

The runway length of almost every "high plateau" airport exceeds 4000 meters. Changdu Bangda Airport, located in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, has the longest civilian airport runway in the world, with a length of 5500 meters.

Moreover, the 'high plateau' airport not only has thin air, but also has special geographical environment and climatic conditions (large temperature difference between day and night, strong winds, turbulence, snowstorms, sandstorms in winter and spring, thunderstorms, wind shear and other extreme conditions in summer and autumn) weather).

Bad weather makes flight safety very difficult.

Moreover, the plateau area is lined with snow-capped mountains and is sparsely visited. Therefore, the 'high plateau' route has high obstacles and few alternative airports.

All the above factors have led to higher requirements for pilots flying on "high plateau" routes.

In other words, not all pilots can fly 'high plateau' routes.

Under normal circumstances, airlines will select high-level pilots such as mainline captains and instructors as captains and co-pilots on 'high altitude' routes.

Moreover, all pilots flying on "high plateau" routes must have various high and plateau special service capabilities such as wind shear, cabin pressure relief, single engine drift, and flap jamming.

Sichuan-Sichuan Province is adjacent to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the largest and highest plateau in the world.

Even more than half of the territory belongs to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its extended areas.

As a state-owned airline affiliated with the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Airlines certainly has the obligation and market demand to open and operate various "high plateau" routes within the country and on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The company operates many "high-plateau" routes, which has led to a shortage and urgency of pilots for "high-plateau" routes within Sichuan Airlines. Again.

Not just any pilot can fly the 'high plateau' route.

So even though Lu Qingzhou is only 25 years old this year, he has only flown for more than hours.

But the company still decided to entrust him with important tasks.

Let him also start flying the 'high plateau' route.

After all, although Lu Qingzhou is not very old, he has only flown for 2000 hours, which is about the same as other young captains.

But his ability is obvious to all.

I have been with Sichuan Airlines for 5 years and have been the captain for more than a year.

He has successfully handled many air traffic accidents.

The handling of several air traffic accidents was even textbook classic operations.

For a talent like him, just being allowed to fly ordinary regional routes would be a bit humiliating.

You have to make it more difficult for him.

As for the 'High Plateau' co-pilot.

The requirements are far less than those of a captain.

Only pilots with more than 500 hours of flight time and experience flying at plateau airports such as Spring City are required.

Of course.

If you want to fly 'high plateau' routes, both the captain and first officer need to undergo relevant business training in advance.

The training content includes theoretical knowledge, including the characteristics and conditions of "high plateau" airports, characteristics of suitable aircraft types, emergency response to emergencies, etc.

There is also practical content.

The market content is simulator training.

Because Sichuan Airlines operates multiple "high plateau" routes, it conducts business training on "high plateau" routes for all its pilots every year.

This way you don’t have to improvise, just plug and play.

In addition, in order to ensure flight safety, the General Administration stipulates that dual pilots must be deployed on "high plateau" routes.

Ordinary routes generally require only one captain and one first officer.

Only on international routes will the number of crew members be appropriately increased.

However, the 'high plateau' route clearly stipulates that it must be a 'double captain' mode.

That is, two captains and one co-pilot.

The reason for this provision is to further ensure the safety of the 'high plateau' route.

Also.

Every pilot flying a "high-altitude" route must have his blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen concentration and other physical health conditions tested with the help of an aviation doctor before performing a flight mission. Only when his physical condition meets the standards of the aviation doctor can he be released. .

Unlike ordinary routes, you only need to pass the physical examination before you can carry out flight missions.

This can be seen.

The requirements for flying the "high plateau" route are so stringent that it's staggering.

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