<h5>On October 1, another year's National Day, at 10:00 a.m., over Shencheng, three helicopters of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau's Police Aviation Corps crossed the sky, the pilot planes flew the national flag, and two wingmen formed a formation in the rear, skimming over the Pujiang River in the shape of a "pin" character. The ambition is soaring, the national flag is flying, and the people are excited to see it. </h5>
This is not the first time that the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Police Aviation Corps has hung a flag on a tour, from the first flag-raising parade flight in 2009, in more than ten years, the party flag has been hung in the centenary of the founding of the party, the national flag has been hung on national day, and the police flag has been hung on the "110 Police Day"... Each flag-raising patrol task only "appeared" for ten minutes, but it contained the efforts of the police and police of the police aviation team.
<h2>How to hang the flag has gone through countless experiments</h2>
Fluttering red flags across the Pujiang River, it looks like a simple plane under the flag, flying from this end to that end, but in fact, the difficulty of this task is far beyond imagination.
In 2009, the Shanghai Police Aviation Corps first proposed the idea of "hanging the flag and touring the exhibition." Gao Bo, squadron leader of the air police brigade of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Police Aviation Brigade, recalled the experience of the first "flag-raising tour".
This task is not simple, because the flag is hung, so there is no room for mistakes in the process, and it must be perfectly displayed. Originally, Gao Bo envisioned that the national flag would be hung on the winch, and after the plane flew up, the national flag could be hung below. But because of the strong wind in the air, such a simple hanging, the flag has not yet reached the sky, it will curl up, completely unable to unfold.
How to add counterweight, Gao Bo did experiments a little bit, from 20 kg to 30 kg, and then to 40 kg... Finally tried out the right counterweight. However, a new problem has arisen, due to the increase in counterweight, the winch will tilt under the action of the wind, which will also affect the shape of the national flag and the safety of the winch.
In the end, we had two missionaries open the cabin and hold the winch vertically with their hands. ”
With the first successful experience, every time Gaobo will try a variety of new solutions, from the material of the flag to the shape of the counterweight, the weight of the counterweight... He had new ideas every time, and in the equipment room of the police aviation team, Gao Bo stored various experimental products.
The next National Day "flag parade" task, Gao Bo is ready to try to customize the national flag specially made of parachute material, the color is more vivid, the stability, wind resistance are also stronger, and the experiment will continue.
<h2>The missionary's job is as thrilling as in the movie</h2>
In addition to being the designer of the "Flag Parade", the more accurate name of his work should be called Tasker. On a police helicopter, in addition to the captain and co-pilot, there will be 1-2 missionaries in the cabin. Gao Bo said,
If you don't understand it, you can watch the movie Emergency Rescue, peng Yuyan played my job. ”
The simple understanding is that the pilot is responsible for flying the aircraft, and the helicopter can be seen as an operating platform, when the local police can not get close to the target, you can use the helicopter to approach from a high place, or when you need to perform long-distance security tasks, the helicopter can also carry out long-distance observation and accurate strikes.
Gao Bo was once a senior SWAT officer, the work is very challenging, when he saw the news that the police aviation team recruited mission personnel, he decided to try it, compared to the work of swat police, helicopter crews need to pay more attention to the cooperation with the aircraft, captain, the mission needs to overcome the obstacles of altitude, wind and other factors.
After Gao Bo joined the police aviation team, he was most impressed by a fire rescue mission. When the helicopter approached the ignition point, the fire was already very serious, black smoke was billowing and the plane was constantly looking for a suitable location to get close to the ignition point. Gobo was dropped off the helicopter via a winch and tried to land on the burning building. In order to ensure the normal flight of the aircraft, the aircraft cannot be too close to the ignition point, but it is very likely that there will be danger when the altitude is too far away when it lands.
That day our winch had been put to the limit of more than ten meters, but it was still too far away from the fire building, the goggles had been hit by impurities in the black smoke, and people had also smoked several mouthfuls of black smoke, and the situation was still very dangerous. ”
Another task that Gao Bo still remembers to this day is to save a car accident injured person from the highway, from rescue to the plane docked on the roof of Ruijin Hospital, the injured person successfully underwent surgery in 7 minutes, and bought time from the hands of the god of death.
<h2>The first self-trained zero-based captain of the national public security</h2>
Born in 1983, Tan Jie is the captain of the Second Flying Brigade of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Police Aviation Brigade. He was the captain who piloted the pilot cruiser on this flag-hanging tour. From a traffic policeman to a captain of a police helicopter, In the past 14 years, Tan Jie and the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Police Aviation Team have grown up together.
In 2007, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Police Aviation Corps is preparing to build, at this time, the national public security system has not yet had the experience of independent training pilots, almost all pilots are recruited from the ranks of demobilized soldiers, Shanghai public security decided to do the "first to eat crabs" - to start the independent training of pilots program. With good physical condition, excellent English ability and psychological quality, Tan Jie stood out from hundreds of police colleagues and became one of the first six "zero-basic" police helicopter pilots in Shanghai to be trained independently.
Tan Jie recalled the memory of studying in the United States, and it is still difficult to forget the feeling of "pain", "Many of my classmates are from a flying family, and those mechanical theories they have a foundation, and at the beginning we really felt that we could not keep up with the progress." "The training of helicopter pilots is completely different from the driving school, and after obtaining the license, especially driving a police helicopter, it also needs to undertake a lot of security and rescue work, and the requirements for professional technology are more stringent." After returning to Shanghai, it is still necessary to follow the training plan, step by step from co-pilot to captain, it originally took nearly 10 years to train a captain, and Shanghai Police Aviation, in just 6 years, the first batch of pilots trained independently have sat in the position of captain.
The Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Police Aviation Corps is still producing a batch of outstanding pilots and missionaries.
Among the three helicopters that flew over the Pujiang River this morning, one of the wingman's co-pilots sat Shao Biao, a post-90s pilot, who was the third batch of "zero-based" pilots independently trained by the Shanghai Police Aviation Force. They gradually began to participate in more and more tasks, continuing the style of Shanghai public security...
Source: Thoughtful