The Banshee aircraft was quickly ready and took off with Ye Qing and the others.
Zhongyun was exactly 500 kilometers away from Shizhou City, and the Banshee aircraft would take 40 minutes to fly.
Ye Qing was really bored sitting alone in the large first-class cabin, and this was one of the flights the Banshee aircraft would take.
Ye Qing, who had never taken a commercial Banshee flight, simply ran to the cockpit and sat behind the two pilots, Fang Yunxin and Du Wei, and watched them fly.
Before Fang Yunxin changed careers, she was a fighter pilot for an aviation division in the southwest.
Before Du Wei changed careers, she was a bomber pilot.
These two were the first pilots recruited by Monster Industries, and they were also the exclusive pilots of Ye Qing when he traveled. In addition, they were together in the United States and experienced the threat of the F22 fighter aircraft.
Therefore, Ye Qing and the two of them were very familiar with each other. Between the two of them and Ye Qing, they could also chat like friends, and there would not be too much of a psychological burden of superiors and subordinates.
Recently, Skynet Airlines was in urgent need of pilots, so Ye Qing simply asked them to come here and work part-time, and they would come when he needed to travel.
Part-time wages were the same as other pilots. Fang Yunxin and Du Wei were both old pilots in their forties. They had families and elders, so they were naturally happy to come here to fly flights to earn money.
Of course, today was their first day working part-time.
The two of them flew the first flight together, and flew with Ye Qing to Shizhou City was their second time.
It was late at night, and it was dark outside the porthole. Ye Qing looked at the instrument for a while and said casually, "Old Fang, Old Du, I remember that you were directly recruited by the company after passing the commercial flight school training."
"Today's flight was your first time flying a commercial airline flight, right?"
"What do you two think?"
"The feeling is that there are too many restrictions, and you can't do this and that." Fang Yunxin, who used to fly fighters, laughed and said, "Boss, after I got the Shang Zhao, I helped you fly the Peregrine Falcon. The performance of the Peregrine Falcon is not worse than the fighter I used to fly. As soon as we enter the stratosphere, we will fly at supersonic speed. "
"For this commercial flight, the flight manual has always emphasized comfort as the first priority. Even when taking off, the speed of the fuselage's ascent must be reported to the ground control tower. "
"I have the same feeling as Old Fang." Du Wei added, "Fei Shang Hang, I feel that the existence of our pilots is to deal with possible emergencies. Under normal circumstances, the take-off and landing operations must be communicated with the control tower. "
"There are indeed a lot of restrictions, but it's quite easy to operate. I don't have to use my brain."
"Then do your best. Skynet Airways is in urgent need of pilots. We have hired headhunters to poach pilots from almost all the domestic airlines. Now, we've even started to recruit new pilots who have just graduated a few years ago. "
"Wait!"
Ye Qing was just casually chatting, but as he chatted, he suddenly thought of an important question that he had neglected.
This was a very important question!
"Old Fang, Old Du, in the Civil Aviation Department, are there many pilots like you who transferred from the Air Force?"
"It turned out to be quite a lot. In recent years, civil aviation has focused on commercial aviation schools. It's not as easy for air force pilots to switch to civil aviation. "
"Why?" Ye Qing asked strangely, "I feel that pilots like you who have a lot of experience flying aircraft should be the treasures of various airlines."
Fang Yunxin scratched his head and shrugged, "Boss, there are two main reasons."
"First, in recent years, the domestic airline's pilot training has been more and more in line with international standards. We pilots have to learn all the training programs from the beginning. "
"Everything else is fine, but the ICAO English is too torturous."
"The English we learned in the army is all about communication. For example, if you trespass into our airspace, please follow our instructions and land at a certain airport. Otherwise, you will be fired at and so on."
"On the other hand, there are more and more foreign aviation schools now, and the airlines are more willing to spend money to send those young people for training."
"Because we pilots will fly until we reach the age limit, until our physical fitness allows us to fly. At this time, we are old, and it takes time to learn the civil aviation training again. After learning how to fly, by the time we reach the captain level, it's almost the retirement age. "
"They send young people for training, and when they return, their physical fitness is just in the golden age, and they can work more than ten years longer than us."
"I see …"
After listening to Old Fang's explanation, Ye Qing also understood the situation of the Air Force pilots transferring to civil aviation.
The training content of Air Force pilots and civil aviation pilots was very different. Air Force pilots were more like F1 racers, while civil aviation pilots were like bus drivers. Of course, there was no problem for a racer to drive a bus.
Perhaps these early racers would easily bring some of the small habits they developed from driving cars into the bus. The passengers' experience would be much worse, and they would feel that the driver was very fierce.
But when they encountered an emergency, they would definitely be able to handle it faster and better than ordinary bus drivers.
The airlines were also willing to recruit these Air Force pilots, as long as they could pass the operation training. But with the increasing number of foreign aviation schools, it was obviously more cost-effective to recruit pilots than to spend money to send college graduates for training.
At least the young people could work more than ten years longer.
The salary paid was also lower than the transferred pilots.
The problem of the number of pilots in Skynet Airlines seemed to be ushering in a new dawn.
Ye Qing and Chang Wanyu had been focusing on civil aviation pilots, but they had neglected another very large group of Air Force pilots in Hua Xia.
Fighter planes, transport planes, helicopters.
These Air Force pilots had reached the age limit set by the Air Force and could not withstand the high overload of military aircraft, but they had no problem flying civil aviation.
In the chat, Fang Yunxin said that when he flew a fighter plane, the highest overload he endured was 9G. In the face of a 9G overload, he could still grit his teeth and persevere. If it was an ordinary civil aviation pilot, in the face of a 9G overload, he would directly faint. There was no other possibility.
Ye Qing asked him again where Air Force pilots generally go after reaching the age limit.
Fang Yunxin thought that the boss was worried about the life of Air Force pilots after retirement, so he laughed and said that these pilots were still in high demand after retirement.
They could transfer to the ground and serve as commanders, or they could become drone pilots.
If they stayed in the army, the army would of course welcome them. If they wanted to transfer to other places and have more time to reunite with their wives and children, they could also go to the airlines.
The airlines were now focusing on young people, but this group of people, as long as they could pass the training, they would not have to worry about jobs.
Not all flights of the airlines were smooth sailing.
For example, high altitude areas, complicated airflow routes, and routes with war risk countries, most of them were flown by this group of retired Air Force pilots.
But in recent years, the airlines began to be picky, and they had more choices. The number of pilots who stayed in the army began to increase, and civil aviation with high salaries was no longer the first choice.
Ye Qing had a solution.
He wanted to recruit all the Air Force pilots who wanted to transfer to civil aviation.
ICAO English, they could slowly learn it in the future. In Skynet, it was not a necessary assessment standard. Besides, this group of elite Air Force pilots, as long as they put in some time, ICAO English was not a barrier.
ICAO English certificate was the international civil aviation wireless telephone English level assessment. All civil aviation pilots had to learn it, but it was only used to fly international flights.
The Banshee aircraft did not fly international routes.
After confirming the idea, Ye Qing immediately used the satellite phone to contact Chang Wanyu and asked her to list retired Air Force pilots as key recruitment targets.
He had acquaintances in the Air Force, so it would be easier to recruit people from there than from the major airlines.
…
Forty minutes after takeoff, the Banshee aircraft arrived at the Shezhou City Airport.
It had been snowing in Shezhou City for several days in a row. The heavy snow occasionally stopped, and the Shezhou City Airport could not meet the landing needs of planes. They could only quickly remove the snow and ice so that the planes stranded at the airport could seize the window to take off.
Fortunately, the Shezhou City Airport was only a small airport in Insignia Province, and there was also the railway as a supplement, so it did not cause more serious problems for passengers.
But this was the Spring Festival, and the difficulty of buying tickets was particularly obvious.
The Banshee aircraft did not have to consider gliding, nor did it have to consider the reduced lift caused by the ice on the wings.
In the heavy snow, the Banshee aircraft directly broke through the clouds, accompanied by heavy snow, and landed in the airport parking area.
When the cabin door opened, Ye Qing, who was wearing a handsome leather jacket, who had just acted cool for less than 5 seconds, suddenly shivered.
"What … What is the local temperature?"
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