Xu Xian's application for the left-hand seat bureau simulator inspection went very smoothly. When Xu Xian was almost done with the experience, Feibiao called Xu Xian to come over for class.

Before entering the process of transferring to captain, a group of co-pilots who are about to be promoted to captain will usually be organized to learn as a group. If the number of people is relatively small at the beginning, the people in front will have to wait a little until there are enough people.

Class starts.

The so-called sufficient number of people depends on the requirements of the company. Some companies start classes when there are five people, and some companies require ten people. Recently, Star Travel Airlines has no shortage of captains, so when it comes to promotion

The captain deliberately slowed down all aspects of the process. In the past, according to the rules, only five people could start the class. However, since the last six months, it has inexplicably increased to ten people before the class can start. This has undoubtedly increased the queue length in this link.

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This is just a microcosm of the transfer process. The speed of a pilot's transfer to captain is partly affected by his own strength, and partly also restricted by changes in the airline's demand for captains.

Recently, Star Travel Airlines has not had a big shortage of captains, so the time it takes to complete a transfer to captain promotion process is now generally about 30% longer than a few years ago. This is based on the fact that Star Travel Airlines has experienced the second time in the past year or two.

In terms of development, the company slightly relaxed the selection of captains. It was still four or five years ago. At that time, the company was extremely involved in the internal affairs. Two or three captains were released a year. Although it is not a good time now, it is still the case.

A little better than before.

However, this is just the treatment of ordinary people and has nothing to do with Xu Xian.

For ordinary pilots, Star Travel Airlines would try to slow down their transition to captaincy, but for Xu Xian, they would just look forward to the stars and the moon to wait for him to become captain.

In Feibiao's office, there is a staff member who is specifically responsible for Xu Xian's promotion. She will verify Xu Xian's landing number and experience time every Friday. As long as Xu Xian's landing number and experience time are found to be enough for promotion, she will

Take the initiative to contact Xu Xian to talk about his promotion.

It was clear that Xu Xian was good enough to be transferred to Level 6 co-pilot before, but he didn't know it himself. He only found out after the pilot personnel specifically contacted Xu Xian.

Compared with Xu Xian himself, Star Travel Airlines seems to be more concerned about Xu Xian's promotion. After all, if Xu Xian is a co-pilot, the publicity effect will still be a bit poor. When he is transferred to captain, he can take charge of his own role. But they

Unknown to him, Xu Xian had already planned in his heart that as soon as he was promoted to captain and completed, he would be ready to run away.

Other pilots have to wait until the quota of ten people is filled before starting classes, but Xu Xian is different.

When Xu Xian still had thirty hours to meet the minimum requirement for captain promotion, Feibiao reported this information to Lu Xinyu, general manager of the flight department. The principle approved by Lu Xinyu at that time was to cooperate with Xu Xian's promotion.

Therefore, it was clear that there were no other co-pilots who met the requirements at that stage. The class schedule was arranged the second week after Xu Xian had enough time. As a result, Xu Xian was the only one taking the class.

In other words, the flight department held a special course for Xu Xian alone.

Not only that, after Xu Xian's course ended and he went through a complete rest period, the fleet recommended inspection was scheduled. The so-called fleet recommended inspection means that at least one inspector above the company inspector level conducts a route inspection.

Only after passing this inspection can the bureau's inspection of the left-hand seat simulator be arranged.

An ordinary co-pilot would have to wait at least half a year from the time he asked Feibiao that he could take classes to the bureau's left-seat simulator for inspection, but Xu Xian only spent two weeks.

This is not even the most extreme.

Generally speaking, the transfer process is carried out step by step, that is, only after an inspection has been completed, the next step will be arranged.

Just like after the fleet recommended inspection is arranged, you must wait for the pilot to pass this inspection before the pilot will apply for the bureau's left-seat simulator inspection. They will not arrange the two together.

One of the very important reasons is that if the previous inspection fails, the subsequent inspections will be nonsense and need to be forced to make changes. Therefore, for anyone, it is just a matter of eating one bite at a time, and no one can go beyond it.

But Xu Xian was different. On the day before the recommended inspection of the fleet, the bureau ordered the left-seat simulator inspection after that, and then flew with the left-seat pilot, accumulating left-seat time for a full month and a half.

The plan was all worked out for Xu Xian, and the captain's inspection after the left seat time accumulation was completed was also scheduled.

Xu Xian specifically looked at the time for the captain's inspection, which happened to be on the 21st of the month, just before the January regular meeting of the technical committee.

Even if all the procedures for transferring to captain are completed and all inspections are passed, they still have to be submitted to the technical committee for discussion. In the past, many pilots who had gone through the previous procedures smoothly and completed the inspections well were stuck with the technical committee.

It's been a long time.

The previous transfer procedures and inspections showed that the pilot's technical ability was up to standard, but the final technical committee discussion involved some messy content. Some veteran instructors on the technical committee felt that this person was too rough-tempered and could not let him go for the time being.

Captain, if he needs more time to hone his skills, it is not impossible for the technical committee to reject his application for appointment as captain on this ground.

The company's arrangement is obviously to wait for Xu Xian's final recruitment inspection to pass, and then directly send the results to the regular meeting of the technical committee for discussion that month, and the results will be available that month. Otherwise, if you miss it, you will have to wait another month.

When other pilots transfer to captain, they take one step and wait for the next step. After Xu Xian takes the first step, the road ahead is already paved, even the final regular meeting time of the technical committee is considered.

When it arrived, I can only say that it was extremely thorough.

The flight department of Star Travel Airlines has never considered the so-called situation where Xu Xian fails the inspection. It usually takes pilots more than a year to complete the procedure, and the flight department strives to complete it for Xu Xian within two months.

Already.

The flight department has even contacted the reception department to prepare a grand captain appointment ceremony for Xu Xian. Shouldn't a large number of people be invited to watch the ceremony?

Thanks to the company's extreme attentiveness, Xu Xian's procedures went very quickly. There really wasn't much to say about the inspection. During the inspection of the simulator that turned to the left seat, the inspector was an authorized representative of Lotto Airlines. Normally,

When the other pilots looked at these appointed representatives, they all nodded and bowed. But on the day of the simulator inspection, the Lotto Airlines authorized representative was very polite to Xu Xian, which made Xu Xian feel a little embarrassed.

The inspection of other people's left-seat simulator was a scheming fight between the pilot and the inspector, but Xu Xian became very happy. After the inspection, the Lotto Air inspector even invited Xu Xian to rub it nearby.

After a meal, the atmosphere became more harmonious.

Once the left-seat simulator inspection is passed, the left-seat time accumulation can begin. According to the flight plan arranged by the flight department for Xu Xian, it can be completed in more than a month.

This flight plan is directly connected to the planning room by Feibiao. Because the planning room generally only provides flight plans for the next week, it has never made a plan for the next month for one person alone.

In the end, the director of the planning room personally took action and arranged a one-and-a-half-month teaching class for Xu Xiansheng. After obtaining Qin Zongyang's consent, the other person in these classes was all Qin Zongyang, so that he could accumulate left-seat time as quickly as possible.

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The so-called accumulation of left-seat time is the process of the pilot changing seats from the right-seat co-pilot to the left-seat captain. The change of seats involves huge changes in procedures and control feel, so even after passing the simulator inspection of switching to the left seat, the authority

We can already apply for an airline transport license for you and recognize you as a captain, but the company itself still requires pilots to fly in the left seat for a period of time under the guidance of an instructor to get used to the rhythm of a left-seat pilot.

This initial stage of long positioning of the aircraft is the stage of accumulating left seat time.

At this stage, it is usually the master who leads the apprentice. Otherwise, for the teacher, it would be quite hard and very uncomfortable for the teacher to lead the apprentice. That is to say, the master is willing to do so.

Now, Qin Zongyang is about to take office as the Vice President of Operations of Star Travel Airlines. He just took advantage of the appointment announcement time to focus on guiding Xu Xian. After he actually takes office later, he will basically not fly again, and Qin Zongyang's time is basically

He has already arrived, and he has no plans to re-employ him. When the vice president of operations is appointed, he will completely retire from the flying industry and focus all his energy on ground work.

Flying with Xu Xian in the left seat is the last concern of Qin Zongyang's flying career. With this concern gone, he can put down his flying career.

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In the flight preparation room of Star Travel Airlines, Xu Xian came to take a sobriety test at the check-in time as always. Getting up early is always a big problem for Xu Xian.

With sleepy eyes, Xu Xian skillfully made a pot of hot water first, and then went to get flight information. After several years of training, Xu Xian has become an experienced person, doing things in an orderly manner.

Of course, for a pilot who has passed the left-hand seat check, he has indeed made his debut in the flying industry.

Compared with Xu Xian's difficulty in getting up, Qin Zongyang always comes early. After all, he is old and can't fall asleep when the time comes. There is nothing to do if he doesn't get up.

When Xu Xian came over with the information, Qin Zongyang had already finished it, and was holding a mobile phone and was very happy.

"What are you looking at? Is there anything so interesting to look at?" Xu Xian yawned, pulled a stool over, and sat across from Qin Zongyang. His eyes were squinted, and he looked completely awake.

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Qin Zongyang grinned to the back of his ears and turned the screen of his mobile phone to Xu Xian: "Lao He was seen smoking in the cockpit the day before yesterday by the passengers on the bridge, and was reported, hahahahaha!"

Xu Xian's eyes were very sore and his vision was blurry. It took him a while to finally understand what was going on.

Qin Zongyang showed Xu Xian a screenshot of the group chat history. Xu Xianguang knew from the few speakers in the screenshot that this group was probably a leadership group.

In the group, Lu Xinyu reported something. The day before yesterday, the instructor He Changyuan was smoking in the cockpit. As a result, the curtain was not drawn. A passenger happened to see He Changyuan smoking through the glass curtain wall on the corridor bridge, so he called and reported it directly to the Southwest Administration Bureau.

, He Changyuan is still grounded now.

"Teacher He is the same. He smoked arrogantly when greeting guests. He didn't know how to write the word "death" well?" Xu Xian stretched out his waist and smacked his mouth a few times. He was just looking at this for fun and didn't have anything to do with it.

A special feeling.

"Hey, Lao He should know how to write the word "death" by now." Qin Zongyang has the temperament of an old kid. When he saw something happened to his old friend, he first felt gloating: "I am old and my brain is not working well. 1

He smokes when he’s a passenger, why doesn’t he smoke in the passenger’s face on the bridge? Hahaha!”

"Is it a big deal?" Xu Xian asked casually.

"No matter what the problem, Lao He's time is up. No matter what the result of this processing is, he will withdraw. He doesn't care much anymore." Qin Zongyang smiled and put away the phone: "He called me yesterday to tell me,

When he quits, he will smoke ten cigarettes a day and no longer have to sneak around."

Many people are aware of the ban on smoking in civil aviation, but in actual operations, pilots sometimes choose to take one before taking off and landing for the purpose of refreshing themselves.

Especially when working the early morning or late night shifts...

Passengers don't have to worry about anything. They can go to sleep as soon as they get on the plane, but pilots can't. At least during the critical stage of takeoff and landing, let alone sleeping. Anyone who is a little unclear is prone to problems, so during the critical stage

Staying awake is a very important topic.

Some pilots will ask for a hot towel to wipe their face to wake them up before landing for the night shift, but this effect is very poor. Just wiping their face is still effective, but they start to fall asleep again within a few minutes.

There are also some pilots who use coffee to refresh themselves, but the caffeine in coffee can easily lead to dependence. Some pilots don't like it, and the domestic acceptance of coffee is not that wide. Some people just don't like the taste of coffee. And, most importantly

Caffeine is a diuretic. If you drink a little too much, your peeing will be like opening a floodgate and you won't be able to stop it.

It's okay when cruising, and you don't have to hold it in, but if it's a critical stage, you can't always run to the toilet, right? Don't get to the final line, the captain can't hold it in and has to run to the toilet.

In principle, pilots are not allowed to go to the toilet during critical stages. However, if you hold it in to urinate, something will happen. If you encounter this situation, it will be more embarrassing.

Therefore, many pilots do not like to use coffee to refresh themselves. At this time, some pilots choose to take a puff of cigarettes before taking off and landing, which has a first-class effect.

However, smoking on a flight is inherently illegal and should not be done in a big way. Therefore, most pilots who want to smoke do it when they are on the ground and have not yet boarded passengers. At this time, the flight has not yet started.

It won't have any impact.
To be continued...