Chapter 215 Flying

Chapter 215 Flying

As soon as the seriously injured people left, the rest were all irrelevant minor injuries. After resting for a few days, they were basically cured, but I didn’t know what to do next.

As the training has ended, and there are currently no tasks that we need to perform. Besides, I hope to give the soldiers more time to relax. After all, such a life is a luxury for the members of our special reconnaissance brigade, so I pretended to know nothing and continued to wait in the ward.

However, the soldiers were quite conscious. They didn't need my orders or their superiors to urge them. They joined the training team one by one. I was very consciously joining the training team. Isn't this? A few days later, I was the only one left in the minor injury area and still enjoying my happiness.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but curse. These guys are really ungrateful. I'm still staying in the ward so that they can rest for a while, but they don't say anything before they go to the training.

But then again, I am the captain of the Special Reconnaissance Brigade, aren't they? They saw that I didn't take the initiative to participate in the training and thought I had some injuries but had not recovered. Who would dare to ask me to participate in the training? So they asked for something boring, explained to Liu Yun, and then took the soldiers to train that morning.

At this time, the training subjects are no longer as high-intensity as before and are targeted. At most, they are just running and practicing coordination. There is still plenty of time to rest during training, the three meals are also fixed, and the food is also very good. After all, it is not the stage for soldiers to recover their physical strength after the war? At this time, there is not only a bad effect on the body of the soldiers, but also a bad effect on the tasks that may be accepted in the future.

"If you don't go against the current, you will retreat" is right. I have basically not moved much in the past half month. Now I am a little out of breath after running five kilometers. However, I think this is related to the pain of all sizes on my body, and I am not worried about it, because I know very well that I will recover soon after running for a few days.

"Captain Cui!" Just as I ran back to the base with the soldiers sweating profusely, Lin Xue handed me a document and said, "I heard that you have started training, so I have drawn up this training plan. See if there is any problem..."

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly. It turned out that my superiors were staring at me every day! I would have known that I would have participated in the training later.

After taking the towel handed over by the guard, I wiped my sweat. I took the document and flipped it out. This flip surprised me. I looked up and looked at Lin Xue in confusion and asked, "What? We still need to train to fly a helicopter?"

"Yes!" Lin Xue nodded and said, "Considering that the special reconnaissance brigade often needs to take helicopters, and our army's Zhiwu has poor protection capabilities, and often pilots are shot dead by the enemy. If no one can fly a helicopter at this time, the loss will be too great. So I think... it is also necessary to master some knowledge of flying helicopters!"

"Well!" I couldn't help but nodded when I heard this. It should be said that Lin Xue's consideration was still very reasonable. Our special reconnaissance brigade is a dragon on the ground, but in the sky... then we can only hand over our fate to the helicopter pilots. Once there is something unexpected on the battlefield, the eleven crew members on their carrier will only be waiting for death. But if we all learn some knowledge about flying helicopters... we don't need to be so skillful that we can almost perform acrobatics in the air like Wang Yunming, and we only need to know how to operate or make a forcibly landing in an emergency, and it is very likely that the lives of more than a dozen soldiers will be saved...

"No problem!" Thinking of this, I nodded and said, "Let's start execution tomorrow! But ten helicopters are not enough for us to practice..."

Lin Xue just smiled and didn't say anything. Later I realized how ridiculous what I said was. Practicing driving a helicopter is not as simple as learning to ride a bike. At the beginning, we would practice it with real helicopters. The flying thing to the sky was an accidental ending of the plane destroying people. Not to mention that the lives of our special reconnaissance team members are a precious resource, and the cost of this helicopter is nearly 500,000 yuan... This 500,000 is not our modern 500,000. In an era when only a few cents are needed and ten yuan can make a table of wine and food... This 500,000 is almost a gold medal. So it can be imagined that even if we are not afraid of death and are willing to operate on the plane, our superiors will not let us practice with helicopters easily.

The next day I understood what was going on...

At the beginning, it was Wang Yunming's theoretical lesson. I briefly talked about the flight principle of the helicopter. Let us understand the structure of the helicopter based on the drawings, distinguish the positions of the two pedals, the periodic variable distance rod and the total distance rod, and the components they control. Then, the helicopter's lifting, translation and rotation should be controlled, as well as the parameters and representations of various instruments...

Originally, I thought flying was a difficult thing, which was why Lin Xue was surprised to me with the plan. However, after listening to what Wang Yunming said, I felt that this was not as difficult as I imagined. The pedal was used to control the tail spiral, and the two pull rods were used to control the main spiral. Then, these things were used to adjust the output power of the tail spiral and the main spiral, the angle of the rotation surface and the angle of the pulp leaf to achieve the purpose of lifting, shifting and rotating the helicopter.

This is indeed more complicated than learning to drive, but I think the bigger difference is that... If you learn to drive, just drive slowly. However, if you drive a helicopter, you may fall from the sky if you are not careful or panic in your heart, and there will be no second chance.

After the theory class, just as we were eager to try our skills on the helicopter, we were taken to a row of "trainers" by Wang Yunming and other pilots. The so-called "trainer" was actually a stool, which was simulated by a few spring-loaded wooden sticks and wooden boards next to it, and then we were asked to sit on and operate...

Whenever we operate on it, Wang Yunming and other pilots would watch from the side, and while watching, they also gave instructions: "Asclimbing...not right! Asclimbing is pulling the total distance lever..."

"Turn right... forward... what's the point! Who asked you to put the total distance pole to the end? If you really were on the helicopter, you would be destroyed and killed!"

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Many things are actually like this. It sounds very simple and not so easy to operate. As the saying goes, each of our special reconnaissance brigades has no bad understanding, acceptance and psychological qualities, but once they sit on this "trainer", they are in a hurry and don't know what to do. Sometimes they don't operate according to the instructions given by the pilots, and some even push and squeeze them out. Just as the pilots said, if this is practiced on a real helicopter, we really don't know how many times we have died.

However, Wang Yunming said that the problems we face are not just these, such as the problem that the helicopters will make people dizzy and confused when they oscillate or rotate, and the problem of not being able to correctly judge the altitude of the aircraft, etc. In response to these problems, Wang Yunming and others have also designed a set of training methods to adapt to, such as letting us sit in a swing chair and turn for more than ten times and then asking us to walk through a balance beam.

In fact, I blame myself for not seeing clearly. The plan that Lin Xue gave me that day had already written these training items clearly, but I didn’t see the content behind it.

After more than half a month of training, the soldiers' condition improved much better. On the "trainer", they were able to make corresponding actions in full accordance with the pilot's instructions, and they could easily walk on the balance beam for more than ten rounds. So Wang Yunming began to let us take turns operating on the real helicopter. Of course, the helicopters operated at this time were still not started, so we still listened to the pilot's instructions like on the "trainer" and then made various corresponding actions.

This is of course very necessary, because operating on a real helicopter is completely different from operating on a "trainer". There is no need to say that the feel is different. Thinking about driving such a giant and flying in the sky, you will naturally feel a sense of pressure, even though the helicopter we operated at this time did not start at all...

"Go forward, descend, raise the head of the plane... Yes! That's right!" After I followed Wang Yunming's instructions step by step, Wang Yunming couldn't help but joke: "Captain Cui, I didn't expect that you are not just fighting, but driving a helicopter is not bad. Maybe one day I will snatch our jobs!"

"Tsk!" I couldn't help but laugh at myself when I heard this, "It's not even launched yet! I'm worried that I'll steal your job..."

"To be honest!" Wang Yunming praised: "Your ability to accept is indeed a bit surprised me. I remember... when I and other comrades-in-arms were studying in the Soviet Union, I was not as good as you!"

"Well!" I couldn't help but be surprised when I heard this: "Are you learning to fly a plane in the Soviet Union?"

"That's not?" Wang Yunming replied: "At that time, we didn't have helicopters. Zhiwu was made according to the drawings of the Soviet helicopter Mi-4. If we didn't learn in the Soviet Union, where would there be somewhere to learn?"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but nod. The first batch of pilots were indeed as Wang Yunming said.

"Oh!" Wang Yunming then sighed and said, "At that time... our relationship with the Soviet Union was still good! I also had many comrades in the Soviet Union who learned to fly planes together, but I didn't expect now..."

Although Wang Yunming had not finished speaking, I knew what he was going to say later. Now we are already at a strife with the Soviet Union, let alone the relationship between Wang Yunming and his comrades. Even if there is any interaction between them now, I am afraid it will be a deteriorating type, such as... I want to find out some news from Wang Yunming or engage in some espionage activities. Under this pressure, he and his former comrades can obviously no longer continue their friendship.

But I felt that it was nothing, because this kind of friendship was nothing compared to the country. Later I learned from other pilots that Wang Yunming’s problem was definitely not as simple as I thought, because he stayed in the Soviet Union not only his comrades, but also his lover and children...

"I won't say this anymore!" Wang Yunming was silent for a long time before he said to me as if he was awakened from his memories: "Those are all things in the past, so it's better not to mention them! Let the soldiers have a good rest tonight! Start practicing flying tomorrow..."

"Tomorrow?" I asked Wang Yunming with some uncertainty: "Let's start practicing flying tomorrow?"

Wang Yunming didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded.

Although we have been on helicopters many times and have trained with helicopters countless times, it is another matter to operate the helicopters in person and fly freely in the sky.

The next day, when we were flying helicopters one by one, accompanied by a pilot, slowly rising to the sky and then circled around the base, we couldn't help but burst into joy. Whenever a soldier flew into the sky with a helicopter, the soldiers below would cheer one after another.

The special reconnaissance brigade had more than 170 people in the entire battalion. Except for the female soldiers who did not require helicopters, the remaining 160 people completed the mission without exception.

The reason why female soldiers are not required to participate in helicopter training is that the female soldiers are frightened when they hear about the helicopter, especially Liu Yun. It is said that she can't eat for two days when she hears the wind. The other... is that the purpose of our study of helicopters is to allow us to land safely in case of emergency, so generally speaking, there are only two or three soldiers on a helicopter that can drive, and female soldiers don't have to participate in training at all. The superiors also consider these issues. At the same time, they are worried that if the female soldiers drive the helicopter, if something happens, the problem will be big... So they quickly agreed to our request.

Although today's test flight was only a few dozen minutes for everyone, and most of the time it was taking off and landing, it was the first step for us to successfully fly into the sky.

Of course, there are two small regrets among them. One is that a soldier was too anxious when landing, so that the helicopter fell to the ground too heavily. He was fine, but he shocked the pilot in the co-pilot. The other... it happened to me...

Of course, Wang Yunming was flying with me. Everything went smoothly at the beginning, but when I flew higher, I fainted... I have been learning how to operate a helicopter, but I forgot my fatal weakness, that is, I have no sense of direction...

It was better when I was on the ground just now. At least I knew those buildings, but as soon as I flew into the sky... it seemed that the scenery everywhere was the same. Where was the southeast, southwest and northwest? Where should I drive?

Yes! Isn't there a directional meter? But I looked at the direction on the directional meter... I still don't understand how I should drive it...

"Go forward!" Wang Yunming waited for a while but couldn't see any movement, so he urged me next to him.

So I pulled the joystick without thinking and flew forward... Ha! This feeling is so good. I have never experienced the feeling of flying in the sky as freely as a bird, so I was operating the helicopter to do all the actions I had learned in the air. Wang Yunming was also watching and saying nothing.

I thought his attention might be on whether he would go up standard when I completed these actions. I didn't notice that the helicopter had deviated from the track we had planned. As a result, when I turned a mountain, I suddenly found a tall telephone pole standing in front of me. I quickly pulled the joystick to pull the plane up, and the helicopter almost flew over the top of the telephone pole...

And I didn't expect that I would be so lucky. After passing the telephone pole, I immediately saw the base at my feet, and the soldiers cheered for my wonderful "performance"!

"It's good!" When I drove a helicopter and parked in the square steadily, Wang Yunming didn't realize that I had lost my direction at all. He thought I was going to be different from others and wanted to show off my skills in front of the soldiers! But at this time, I secretly felt a little sweat in my heart. What Wang Yunming didn't know was... We had actually saved our lives just now!

We conducted helicopter training for more than a month, and the soldiers quickly mastered various flying skills.

I remember in modern times, I once heard that if ordinary people go to a flight school for training, it usually takes half a year to get a driver's license. Compared to them, we only need to learn it for more than a month. That can be said to be much better than them, but thinking about it, there is nothing to be proud of. We are a special reconnaissance brigade, aren't we? Special forces are not as powerful as normal people, so why do we do special forces?

Of course, it is impossible to be "skilled" after more than a month of practice, but I believe that if something happens in future battles, the soldiers can already calmly deal with some urgent problems.

I also forced myself to recognize my learning direction because of my first test. After learning, I found that it was not as difficult as I imagined. Although I am a blind person, I only need to learn how to look at the direction instrument. This may be a good thing for me. From another perspective, I actually don’t need to learn what direction to recognize, right? According to our original purpose of learning to fly, it is actually just that I can fly a helicopter and land normally when the pilot is in trouble!
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