When the track extends from the ground to the sky, when the helicopter pilot gradually becomes our "partner" for travel, everyone must be particularly curious, what are the necessary skills of helicopter pilots? What are the contents of PK between pilots? On the afternoon of June 15, the first helicopter pilot skills competition in East China was hotly held.
It is understood that there are three individual competitions in this competition, namely the Aeronautical Intelligence Competition, the Pre-flight Inspection "Stubble" Competition and the Flight Simulation Challenge; Two team competitions, namely the Aviation Knowledge Team Quiz and the LEGO Teamwork Competition. It can be seen that in the process of flying, not only does the pilot need to have strong personal ability, but also must have tacit teamwork.
As the theoretical basis of flight operation, the Aeronautical Intelligence Competition tests the pilot's familiarity and application ability with aviation theories such as aviation regulations, flight principles, helicopter systems, aviation meteorology, and human factors.
The pre-flight inspection "stubble" competition is one of the most important aspects of the pilot's pre-flight preparation. At the scene, we saw that the pilot was confirming the pre-flight checklist in an orderly manner for completeness, correctness, and airworthiness. Don't underestimate every pre-flight inspection, every step is related to the safety of the voyage, which tests the professional skills of the pilot.
The Flight Simulator Challenge sets up different flight scenarios to comprehensively evaluate the participating pilots' situational judgment ability, flight operation ability, aviation decision-making ability, and communication and cooperation ability. It is worth mentioning that the flight simulator used in this flight simulation challenge adopts the only self-developed VSV visual system in China, which supports the customization of scenery and airports, 1:1 simulation restores complete avionics instruments, and has the functions of networked joint flight, land-air call, linkage steering stick and linkage pedals of the main and co-pilot, tablet computer instructor operation, exclusive flight teaching course training and evaluation, etc., which can provide flight driving standard operating procedures (SOP), visual five-sided flight subject training (VFR), Experiential subjects such as Instrument Flight Training (IFR), Complex Weather Flight Training, Major Aircraft Failure and Special Situation Emergency Training, and Flight Maneuvering Extreme Experience Training.
The Aviation Knowledge Team Quiz and LEGO Teamwork Tournament test the level of understanding between teams and the application of crew resource management. The whole team needs to have comprehensive capabilities such as orderly division of labor, effective communication, efficient problem solving, time management and quality control.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Gu Qiuping
Proofread by Faye Wong