Chapter 71 You saved my life (please order first!)

It is normal for the captain to not react within a short period of time. Not to mention that the captain was unprepared, even someone like Xu Cang who was somewhat mentally prepared was unexpected.

The nearly out-of-control change of the aircraft resulted in a pitch attitude of nearly ten degrees in just the blink of the reaction time, and there was no tendency to stop. If this situation continues, then Xu Cang and the others will have more than just a few things waiting for them.

The tail of the aircraft may be rubbed, and the elevator components may be damaged as a result.

However, no matter what, Xu Cang was prepared in advance, so his reaction speed was faster than that of the captain. It was this lead time of less than a quarter of a second that saved the entire crew.

"Push!" Xu Cang shouted these two words with almost all his strength.

In fact, pushing the pole during the initial climb is a very dangerous action, because if this action is slightly rough, it can easily cause the aircraft to decline.

No matter what type of aircraft it is, the most important requirement for initial climb is to clear obstacles. No aircraft model will consider the descent behavior during the initial climb phase to be acceptable.

However, the current situation no longer allows for so-called gentle control, and the fastest possible means can only be used to stop the aircraft from abnormally rising.

If Xu Cang were here, he would have already taken advantage of it at this moment, but now he can only hope that the captain can react after his reminder. It is just a gamble, even if the captain can make the most accurate decision in this situation

None of the manipulations are predictable.

However, God favored Xu Cang after all, and the captain's reaction was not unpleasant. Almost as soon as Xu Cang opened his mouth, the captain recovered from the shock.

Any qualified captain has been trained for many years. After experiencing the initial confusion, he finally began to react.

He stopped the initial movement of pushing the stick, and instead used a small and precise push rod action to stabilize the aircraft's head in an instant. Even though this push rod action is very simple, the technical content involved is quite high.

In such a situation, the captain is required to stop the aircraft from raising its head and prevent the aircraft from descending. Even if no major problem occurs in the end, if the aircraft descends during the initial climb phase, it will be recorded in the QAR.

The company's safety supervision department will definitely invite you to tea.

It can only be said that the captain's response did not live up to Xu Cang's expectations. This push rod directly and accurately pushed the aircraft's FPV signal display to the horizon, which was absolutely accurate.

Logically speaking, it is not too difficult to grasp this control amount, and a normal captain should be able to do it. However, he can still respond accurately in such an urgent and unexpected situation. I have to say that this captain's basic skills are very good.

The sudden and frantic raising of the plane's nose caused the already low speed to decrease significantly. At the most exaggerated moment, it had already reached the warning zone. Fortunately, with such a push, the speed of the plane suddenly increased.

, which can be regarded as stabilizing the speed of the aircraft.

The widely separated guides began to align again as the aircraft's attitude decreased. However, after catching up with the guide, the guide began to indicate an increase in attitude, that is, it continued to rise.

However, after the heart-wrenching thrill just now, even the calm captain felt lingering fear and expressed strong hesitation on whether to follow the instructions.

Compared with the captain's hesitation, Xu Cang's idea was much simpler. No matter what, even if they were to return to the field, they were determined not to maintain their current posture. They had to rise after all. This movement with the rod was

Unavoidable.

However, although everything cannot be avoided, slight adjustments can be made to dispel some of the captain's doubts.

"Set N1 thrust and adjust speed to 170 knots!" Xu Cang shouted.

"What?" The first co-pilot obviously did not realize the profound meaning of Xu Cang's words, and was still thinking about the question behind Xu Cang's words: "It's not yet a thousand feet."

According to the requirements of the SOP, the aircraft should start to reduce thrust and increase speed at 1,000 feet. However, the current actual altitude is only more than 700 feet, which has not reached the minimum altitude to reduce thrust and increase speed.

However, the captain's field of vision was not as narrow as that of the co-pilot. He understood Xu Cang's thoughts in an instant. In an instant, the captain almost suddenly became enlightened and shouted: "Just do it!"

The first officer was startled by the captain's roar. He didn't believe Xu Cang, but he didn't believe the captain. It was almost an instinctive reaction. The first officer directly pressed the N1 button, and then called up a speed in the speed window.

A speed of one hundred and seventy knots.

The subtlety of Xu Cang's instruction is that it reduces the increase in the guidance attitude. After pressing N1, the aircraft switches to reducing thrust. If there is an abnormal rise after a while, it is relatively easy to control. Moreover, the speed is 170 knots.

The speed is greater than the current speed. In this case, the aircraft will give priority to speed increase and the guidance will not produce an excessive upward attitude.

In this way, the captain can test the status of the aircraft in a small way, and the reaction time is enough, which is much safer.

In fact, Xu Cang can ask the first officer to increase the speed to the UP speed of the smooth configuration in one step. However, in the next short period of time, some unpredictable situations may occur. What if the speed increases to UP during this period?

Above V2+15, the crew must allocate energy to retract the flaps. Even theoretically, the flap retraction can be delayed, because usually the maximum speed of flap five exceeds UP, but there is always a danger of overspeeding, so it is not necessary

Exposing yourself to avoidable risks.

One hundred and seventy knots is a quite interesting value. It does not cause the possibility of retracting flaps, but also creates the need to increase speed, thereby reducing the rate of ascent, killing two birds with one stone.

Sure enough, after adjusting to a slightly larger speed, the flight guidance began to slowly move downward, and in the end there was only an attitude gap of more than one degree from the actual attitude of the aircraft.

This is a small and controllable change in posture.

As a result, the captain felt relieved and raised the aircraft at a gentle speed to a state consistent with the guidance. However, this lifting action did not cause any abnormal phenomena, and the aircraft followed the captain obediently.

He raised his head slowly, as if the violence not long ago did not exist.

"Is everything okay?" The captain calmed down a little. After the speed increased to 170 knots, he followed the guidance and ascended for a while, but nothing happened again, and he felt relieved.

After connecting to the autopilot, the captain wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. In less than a minute just now, his heart really almost stopped.

He turned around and glanced at Xu Cang: "Brother, you really saved my life!"

"So you just returned?" In the office of the general manager of the flight department, Lu Jinghua faced Xu Cang, with the captain and first officer standing beside him: "Tell me, what do you think the problem is?"

Just now, the Jianchuan-Yingli flight that had an abnormal nose-up phenomenon during takeoff finally chose to return. The almost out-of-control nose-up gave the captain a strong psychological shock. Not to mention that there was something wrong with the plane itself.

, even if there is no problem, the captain has already felt that his mental condition is not suitable for flying.

Regardless of the status of the crew or the aircraft, returning is a safe choice.

However, from the company's point of view, the return of the aircraft is definitely not something to be thankful for, and according to the crew's self-report, the aircraft 1566 will definitely not be able to fly for the time being. Blue Sky Airlines will have to deploy other aircraft to fill the capacity, and it will also need to hire additional crews.

Blue Sky's transportation capacity is insufficient not only in terms of the number of aircraft but also the number of crews. This unexpected return of flights has put considerable pressure on the company's operations.

But the captain has the final decision-making power on the flight, and the company can't do anything to the crew for the time being. In the end, it can only ask Lu Jinghua for questioning.

"When I initially pulled up, the control amount of the steering wheel did not match the actual amount of head-up of the aircraft at all." Even though a long time had passed, the captain was still frightened when he recalled it: "Mr. Lu, I feel that I am leading the stick."

There should be no problem with the volume, but the actual head-up speed of the aircraft is much faster than imagined, which is obviously abnormal."

Lu Jinghua held his forehead with his palms: "Looking at myself, what if it's your manipulation problem?"

The captain said anxiously: "Mr. Lu, I can feel it if it's me. It's just an ordinary takeoff. I can't make a mistake. There is something really wrong with the 1566 plane. I haven't realized it yet. The attitude of the plane

It will be over ten degrees."

"What do you think, is this what a professional pilot should say?" Lu Jinghua ran his fingers across the skin of his forehead, and it was obvious that he was unhappy: "If the feeling is really so reliable, then what will happen to us when we learn to fly is that we will be lost in space?"

What?"

The captain was choked by Lu Jinghua's words, while the first officer kept his head lowered. On this occasion, he did not dare to speak at all.

"Let's write an incident report later. The more detailed the better." Lu Jinghua waved his hand: "Let's go home and calm down before the safety supervision department comes to a conclusion. It should be done soon, it won't take long."

In a few words, Lu Jinghua came to a conclusion, and after a very brief hesitation, the captain finally swallowed back the words of defense that were already in his mouth.

"What about plane 1566?"

Just because the captain doesn't speak doesn't mean that others won't speak, such as Xu Cang.

I saw Xu Cang staring at Lu Jinghua with burning eyes: "What does the company plan to do with aircraft 1566?"

Lu Jinghua leaned back in his chair and said calmly: "Xu Cang, you are the second officer. This matter has nothing to do with you and will not affect your subsequent flights."

Lu Jinghua's intention was very clear and he did not want Xu Cang to get involved. Xu Cang had no right to speak at this level. Obeying was the only way to protect one's own safety. It was not a good idea to stand out.

Xu Cang didn't understand what Lu Jinghua meant, but instead of shutting up, he took a step forward and directly passed the captain: "Why does this have nothing to do with me? There is a problem with the plane, and it has nothing to do with the pilot. There is no such reason in the world.

"

"You can't tell whether there is something wrong with the plane." Lu Jinghua raised his head and met Xu Cang's bright eyes. He couldn't help but spread his hands: "Okay! 1566 will stop for inspection. Is that okay?"

Xu Cang nodded and said nothing more.

Lu Jinghua walked to the door of the office: "Okay, everyone, get out."

The captain and first officer looked at each other and left obediently. However, Xu Cang hesitated again and again. When he walked to the door, he didn't forget to turn around and ask: "Brother, do you really know how to check?"

The change in title made Lu Jinghua, who was still a little annoyed at first, feel softer: "I promise you, I will check it carefully."

After receiving Lu Jinghua's assurance, Xu Cang felt relieved. He was only afraid that Blue Sky Airlines would only do some basic and simple tests in order to ensure operations, thus failing to truly discover the problem.

This may be unimaginable to ordinary people. What is more important than safety? But in the eyes of some people, there is really something more important than safety, especially if those people are lucky, it is even more terrifying.

This is not alarmist. There are many precedents in the history of civil aviation. Xu Cang had to consider this possibility.

However, now that he had Lu Jinghua's guarantee, Xu Cang no longer struggled. Just when he was about to leave, Lu Jinghua suddenly stopped Xu Cang.

Lu Jinghua frowned and said seriously: "Xu Cang, it doesn't matter if you talk to me like this, but if it were anyone else, you would suffer."

Xu Cang lowered his head: "Sorry, I was a little anxious just now."

"You don't need to apologize to me. This is not what I want." Lu Jinghua waved his hands, looking a little tired and not in a good state: "Xu Cang, not all good people in the company. Or, to be precise, not all.

You are a good person, but you have to learn to protect yourself."

Xu Cang was stunned for a moment, then smiled, showing his white teeth: "I will pay attention to the way I speak, but I will still say what I need to say, even if some people don't like to hear it, as long as I have a clear conscience."

Lu Jinghua sighed: "Okay, as long as you know, go ahead."

When Xu Cang went out, Lu Jinghua irritably opened his mailbox on the computer. The latest email was the operation control department's description of the return of the Jianchuan-Yingli flight executed by Xu Cang. This email was sent to

The Vice President of Operations and the Vice President of Maintenance and copied the department heads of the Flight and Maintenance Departments.

This was originally a very routine incident report. However, the vice president of operations responded directly to this email: "Complete the necessary tests as soon as possible and resume aircraft operation as quickly as possible."

This instruction may not seem like a big problem, but in fact there is a trick in it.

The word "necessary" is synonymous with the minimum standard in a sense, and after getting along with Luo Yong, the vice president of operations, Lu Jinghua roughly knew that this person was an opportunist who put profits first.

The Vice President of Operations obviously wants the aircraft to be tested to the minimum standard and if there are no problems, it will be released as soon as possible to avoid losses to the company. As for the problems mentioned by the crew, in his view, as long as I complete the necessary tests, even if it is

The minimum standards are in compliance with regulations and should not be a reason for being attacked.

Looking at the instructions in this email, Lu Jinghua was silent for a long time, and a strong sense of powerlessness arose spontaneously. He sighed: "Xu Cang, you have a clear conscience, what should I do?"
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