Great Power Fighting Falcon

Before taking off, Li Zhan had a meal. It was early three in the afternoon. After peeing, he didn't feel hungry, but he still bit into a piece of chocolate given by the aircraft maintenance staff.

At 3:15 in the afternoon, Li Zhan drove the J-8FR numbered 101 from Longcheng Airport directly into the dark and dark sky in the west. He no longer coveted the sound of the approaching girl, so he crossed the approach platform and contacted Nan Zhi directly.

He flies a fighter jet, so there is no need to follow the procedures of civil aviation. Moreover, in terms of airspace priority and route priority, civil aviation is on the sidelines, so it is troublesome.

At this time, there are still many civil flights flying over Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, and several routes have to pass through rainfall clouds and southward cold air. The civil air traffic control department has been paying close attention to the meteorological conditions of the airspace it flies over, and the military air traffic control department has also been providing assistance to help clear the relevant airspace so that civil aircraft can use the shortest route to stay away from complex weather airspace.

Judging from the flight path map, all the planes were flying outward, except for the number "JH101" representing Li Zhan, dragging a long dotted line towards the center of the huge cloud.

Flying under complex weather conditions has always been a high threshold. Pilots with this ability are generally experienced pilots with two thousand hours of flying time, and it is not uncommon to have three to four thousand hours of flying time. How to evaluate the difficulty of flying under complex weather conditions? The bottom line is one of the criteria for measuring an ace pilot.

Li Zhan is very unfamiliar with many practical subjects, and has even never been exposed to some subjects at all. However, his flying skills, including day and night flying in complex weather conditions, flying across day and night, and handling of emergencies, make him almost the best in the Second Division. Among those people.

Otherwise, he would not be qualified to sit in the cockpit of the J-8FR, and he would also be given a number like 101.

Despite this, after entering the southward cold air mass from an altitude of three thousand meters, Li Zhan also clearly felt the power of complex weather. Affected by Siberian cold air clouds, heavy rain has fallen in western Guangxi Province. Within a range that stretches hundreds of kilometers, strong water vapor is constantly rising and replenishing in the southwest, forming continuous heavy rainfall. The measured precipitation in the upper reaches exceeds 100 milliliters and continues to rise. It is only time for a heavy rainstorm to form. question.

Therefore, there is no suspense. Li Zhan first encountered the problem of sharp decline in visibility. After plunging into the rainfall area, everything you look at is clouds and mist.

Li Zhan turned on the search radar and reported to Nanzhi at the same time, "Nanzhi, this is Yaodongyao. My visibility is not good. Please lower the altitude."

He is not very worried about crashing into mountains or mid-air collisions. The J-8FR is modified based on the F type. In the nose is the same fire control radar as the early J-10, and its performance is more advanced than that used by the early SU-27. Don't underestimate the F-type just because you are an old man. If it weren't for the flaw in the aerodynamic layout, it is estimated that it can continue to be modified and used for decades like the H-6.

The commander of the South Point paused for a moment and said, "Yao Dong Yao, you go up to Eight Thousands first and try to see if you can fly on cumulonimbus clouds. Here we need aerial photos of cumulonimbus clouds."

"Understood, I'm climbing now, up to 8,000." Li Zhan didn't hesitate at all. He put on the oxygen mask first, then pushed the accelerator lever. When the speed came up, he decisively pulled the lever to climb.

The excellent acceleration performance of the J-8FR, which was born out of Ba Ye, came into play. With an average climb rate of more than 270 meters per second, it took less than half a minute to reach an altitude of 8,000 meters.

However, after reaching 8,000 meters, Li Zhan's sight was still full of clouds, the airflow was very strong, and the fighter plane was severely turbulent. He continued to climb while reporting to Nan Zhi, "Nan Zhi, I am Yaodong Yao, Eight Thousand If it’s not enough, please continue to climb higher.”

"Agreed, there are no aircraft in your airspace, be ready to report." After confirming that the airspace was clear, the commander of the South Point decisively agreed to Li Zhan's request.

Li Zhan continued to climb.

I sang "Thirty Thousand Feet" silently in my heart: climbing, the speed pushed me to the back of the chair...

Since he started flying, he has never tried to climb from an altitude of 2,000 to 3,000 meters to an altitude of 10,000 meters in one breath. In fact, for fighter jets, there are fewer and fewer opportunities to fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters. Unless you're flying over the vast ocean.

As the local economy continues to develop, more and more routes and airspace are handed over to local civil aviation, making great contributions to economic development. As one goes up and the other goes down, the air force's training airspace must be continuously compressed. In order to make room for it, not only many airports have been transferred to local governments, but some important airports are also being relocated.

Just like the trap Chen Fei almost fell into, the local government only focused on economic development but neglected homeland air defense security, insisting on building high-rise buildings where the take-off route passed. This matter has not been resolved until now. As Li Zhan said, once it is completed, the fighter planes at the Xixian Station will have to climb or turn at a high angle as soon as they leave the runway. Ironically, it forced the pilots to improve their technology...

When the front suddenly became clear and the bright sun was at eleven o'clock, Li Zhan breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at the altimeter. The altitude was 13,000 meters. It was obvious that the power of the fighter plane had declined greatly. serious.

This altitude is very safe, and no commercial aircraft will fly at this altitude.

He resumed level flight and maintained a heading of 270.

"Nan Zhi, I am Yaodong Yao, altitude is 13,000, heading is 270, cruising speed, the clouds are below me, please identify it with radar, if there is no problem I will start taking pictures." Li Zhan called Nan Zhi, because Wearing an oxygen mask, his speech sounded a little loud, but he was still very clear.

The commander of the South Point quickly replied, "Yao Dong Yao, you are in a good position. You can start aerial photography. Maintain the heading speed for five minutes, and then perform a circling flight. To be continued later."

"Understood, hold for five minutes and circle in a circle." Li Zhan turned on the high-speed camera and began to take pictures of the huge clouds below.

There are cumulonimbus clouds and unformed cumulonimbus clouds in those clouds, as well as thunderstorms, and the rising air currents carry abundant water vapor, which can be said to be a gathering of ghosts and monsters. If he hadn't climbed decisively on the outside, he might have been a lone boat drifting in the strong wind and waves.

When it began to hover, Li Zhan carefully observed the huge cloud group, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became. Of course he is familiar with the weather. A pilot who is not familiar with the weather is like driving a car who is not familiar with the traffic rules. What kind of weather is impossible to fly, what kind of weather can barely fly, and where the weather will change, we must be aware of it and be forward-looking.

What's more, during the grounding period, he not only worked with the maintenance staff, but also often visited the weather station to learn more about meteorology.

Don't think that the leader is a fool. There is a good reason for sending you here. For example, not only are you highly skilled in flying, but your ability to interpret weather is also outstanding.

Li Zhan couldn't wait for the technicians to interpret it after landing, and reported his opinion to Nan Zhi without any hesitation, "Yao Dong Yao called Nan Zhi, this huge cloud layer below me is not simple, combined with the thickness passed through during the climb , once this cloud layer transforms into a cumulonimbus cloud, it will bring long-term heavy rainfall."

The commander of the Southern Point obviously knew the details of Li Zhan and judged him very seriously. He immediately said, "Yao Dong Yao, keep observing, the radar is confirming your position."

"To the south, I should be at the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. Not far from the heading 270 is the Hengduan Mountains." Li Zhan said.

The commander of the South Point smiled subconsciously and said, "Yao Dong Yao, how do you know? Is it calculated through the bearing data?"

"No, I know the feeling of flying, how far it has flown and where it is," Li Zhan said.

He is someone who has experienced a power outage in the cockpit during a night flight, a landing gear failure, and a successful emergency landing. The feeling of flying can be said to have reached a new level. One of the reasons why flying is a high-risk profession is that airplanes have almost no reference points in the sky. If you rely solely on landmark flying, you won't be able to fly in a variety of environments, let alone fight. If a person drives on land and the marking lines on both sides disappear, the chance of running off the road will be greatly increased, but there are no lines in the sky. What to do? In addition to technical instruments such as compasses, we can only rely on the pilot's feeling and ability to perceive body balance. This is why pilots conduct anti-syncope training.

Another example is low-altitude sea-skimming flight, which has always been regarded as a high-risk combat subject by Hainan Airlines, because once the pilot has an illusion for even 0.5 seconds, the fighter plane will plunge into the sea.

After the radar identified and confirmed Li Zhan's location, the personnel on duty at South Point were all sincerely impressed. Several of them gave a thumbs up, regardless of whether Li Zhan could see or not - the location of the No. 101 J-8FR fighter jet determined by the radar. Basically consistent with Li Zhan’s judgment.

"Yao Dong Yao, your judgment has been fed back to the local government. Now you need to keep circling and continue to monitor this cloud." The commander of the South Point issued new instructions to Li Zhan.

Li Zhan did not stop observing the clouds below. He thought for a moment and asked for instructions again, "South Point, the area where Yun Gui meets Yun Gui is the place with the largest altitude difference. If there is super heavy rainfall, the water level upstream will definitely rise. I requested to conduct detection under the clouds and conduct aerial photography of the relevant areas. I am not taking any photos now because I am worried that there will be no flying conditions if there is heavy rainfall. In addition, I also need to collect relevant data about the clouds."

The risk of doing this is very high, but compared to doing it after super heavy rainfall, the risk is relatively small. On the other hand, the ground weather radar observed that the cloud level was still 2,000 meters high. If Li Zhan went down to less than 2,000 meters for aerial photography, there would be no problem.

However, to descend to an altitude of 1,000, Li Zhan would have to swoop through a super-large cumulonimbus cloud layer several kilometers thick.

However, that's not the hardest part!

Don’t forget, the two thousand meters of cloud cover is an altitude, not a relative height. The area where Yunnan and Guizhou meet belongs to the edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with an altitude of more than one thousand meters!

This means that Li Zhan will be faced with flying among the mountains as soon as he emerges from the clouds.